[winGRASS] Problem with r.in.gdal

[John Huddleston]

Hi Andeas, (List)

Sorry for the delay, I've been offline upgrading my PC to a new motherboard and
processor.  Very fast!

Two issues: gdal and the state of wingrass:
1) I compiled the gdal library for someone just last year.  So, I can help in
    that area;
2) if we move to a total windows port, I will continue to support the X11 version;
   that will take some cvs configuration and this group has been very good
   in this area in the past.

I agree with Glynn about using the win32api if you decide to go native.
Again, though, let's keep the configure and the cvs in step with that 
development.

Let me know...

John Huddleston

-----Original Message-----
From: wingrass-admin at grass.itc.it [mailto:wingrass-admin at grass.itc.it]On
Behalf Of Andreas Lange
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:19 AM
To: winGRASS
Subject: Re: [winGRASS] Problem with r.in.gdal


Markus Neteler wrote:
> "Solution" 2:
>  r.in.gdal was reported no to be functional under winGRASS. I don't know
>  about the current status.

Hi,

i think it depends on the version of winGRASS. The version i compiled
with the X driver did not contain a working r.in.gdal, as i never could
compile the gdal library on windows. Maybe the version with the native
windows driver worked with gdal lib, but i never tested.

The cygwin environment has undergone many changes since i wrote the
installation instruction (e. g. the new setup system, there is a sunrpc
package now!), and i had a nearly-working auto-installable grass package
last year. But i decided to abandon further development, as i was not
able to support all those external dependencies (XFree, sunrpc, gdal,
nviz, tcl/tk etc.). I think that we should decide which route to go for
the windows port (only X or only native windows driver), as i (we?)
don't have the capacities to maintain two versions (and documentation)
for the windows port. It costs a lot of effort to create really
fool-proof documentation and setup system and to cope with all the
windows quirks. 

If there is interest and others are willing to join, i will revive the
project.

Andreas

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