[GRASS-user] Error in Compiling GRASS GIS

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

>Now I am getting an error :
>
>--> configure: error: *** Unable to locate lex.
>
>I did some googling and found out that i should download and install FLEX.
>So I did, but still got the same error. Can anyone help on this?

it's part of the msys2 framework
(https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows#InstalltheMSYS2directorystructure)

in the msys2 shell:

$ lex --version
lex 2.6.4


>Also is there any other way to check the working of code changes in GUI
>part without compiling the whole software?

GUI is python, thus no need to compile. drop the updated script into the
corresponding folder.






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Helmut
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