[winGRASS] Installation problems

[Richard Greenwood]

van der Mark, C.J. <xs4all account via olvg> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Spend two weekends now on installing GRASS 5.0 under Cygwin and I only get error messages.
> 
> I installed Cygwin fully on a NTFS Win-XP partition (xp homeversion)
> All downloads and installs succeeded
> 
> Then I installed GRASS 5.0 as described in the install pages of that compile.
> No error messages 
> 
> I created the object files as directed in the helpfile of 5.0
> No error messages
> 
> When I start GRASS I first get a small window (from GRASS) which cannot be opened at the top of my screen,
> then I get a bunch of errors about files it cannot find, directories that are not accessable and so on.
> (there are no spaces in the dir names.)
> 
> The only thing I noticed that GRASS 5.0 was disigned for use with Xfree86, but that package was removed and replaced with Xwindows (X11) server......
> 
> thanks in advance,
> Cees
> Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

How are you starting GRASS? I would suggest starting the Cygwin Bash 
shell, and then type "grass5". This should get you started in text mode. 
If that works, quit Grass and start X-Windows, then start Grass.

Regards,
-- 
Richard Greenwood
www.greenwoodmap.com