[winGRASS] cygwin and winGRASS status update

[John Huddleston]

Hi Andreas, (Cc to WinGRASS list)

Yes, I do recommend compiling as many of the "third-party"
non-Cygwin distribution libraries as you use.  The tcl/tk system
is built by Cygwin now.   Corinna built the last version of the
rpclib.   I'll look into the RPC for us.  

Perhaps we can have a new section in the cvs (at the same
level as grass but not under grass) only related to the wingrass
builds.   That would take care of our concerns.  However, as 
Bernhard has pointed out in the past, this brings up issues of
authorship, maintenance, etc.    We could do an import of the
other libraries and not maintain them.  Building the supporting
libraries under Windows is complicated.  Whatever we can do
to simplify it would go a long way towards making the builds
easier. 

Once upon a time, I wrote to Markus about getting a small
team together for 3-5 days to hammer out the issues together.
I still think this is a good idea.   If there are funds, or if we could
get a sponsor for the WinGRASS version, this would help. 
We could cut a WinGRASS CD, charge $79 (US) and help
defray the costs.   

John Huddleston

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Lange" <Andreas.Lange at Rhein-Main.de>
To: <wingrass at geog.uni-hannover.de>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:15 AM
Subject: [winGRASS] cygwin and winGRASS status update


> Dear winGRASS friends,
> 
> i just re-installed cygwin and the new xc-4-binaries 4.1.0 on Windows
> 2000 Professional.
> The XFree86 Server seems to be much more advanced than the older
> version, but i have still continous crashes. 
> 
> I did not start a re-compilation of GRASS and did not re-compile the
> required libraries as advised by John Huddleston. John, do you mean that
> i should recompile all libraries that are external to the cygwin system
> (e. g. tcl/tk 8.x, sunrpc/xdrlib, where do i find the sources for the
> rpclib?) or just the libraries i compiled on my own (gd, gdal,
> unixODBC)?
> 
> Last time i compiled with cygwin 1.1.8/latest gcc i still had the
> problem of the XDriver crashing with a stackdump.
> 
> Is anyone out there who has a running xdriver? If yes, please post the
> version of cygwin.dll and gcc you use. 
> 
> I hope that i find more time in mid-july to revisit the problem.
> 
> cu,
> 
> Andreas
>  
> -- 
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