[winGRASS] NVIZ on cygwin

[Richard Greenwood]

Huidae Cho wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've upgraded to grass 5.7 and found that NVIZ won't work any more
> even though I copied the pre-compiled NVWISH2.2 which is available at
> the wingrass page. I compiled it with xtcltk, not cygwin version, but
> it failed to run with segmentation fault.
> 
> I decided to rebuild whole tcltk from its sources and not to use
> windows code but unix directory. With little modification, I succeeded
> to compile both tcltk and NVIZ and so far, I don't have any problem.
> Even better is that I can resize an NVIZ window without having to run
> X in full mode (I couldn't do it with the pre-compiled NVWISH2.2).
> 
> Anyway, attachments are patch files for tcl/tk 8.4.7.
> 
> 1. download tcl8.4.7-src.tar.gz and tk8.4.7-src.tar.gz
> 2. tar xvfz tcl8.4.7-src.tar.gz
>     patch -p 0 < tcl8.4.7-cygwin.patch
>     cd tcl8.4.7/unix
>     ./configure
>     make
>     make install
> 3. tar xvfz tk8.4.7-src.tar.gz
>     patch -p 0 < tk8.4.7-cygwin.patch
>     cd tk8.4.7/unix
>     ./configure
>     make
>     make install
> 
> Hope you enjoy!
> 
> Huidae Cho

Nice work! Thanks for sharing. Maybe your binaries should replace the
ones currently being distributed.

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