[GRASS-windows] Re: problems compiling WinGRASS

[Moritz Lennert]

On 14/12/07 15:56, ines_cherif wrote:
> Do you mean that with the snapshot I do not need to compile. I got
> confused. I thought the snapshot was just an updated version of the
> source code

There are binary snapshots and source snapshots.

If you just want to try out grass on windows without going through the 
hassle of compiling grass yourself, then follow the instructions in 
"Installing binary snapshots" 
(http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Installing_binary_snapshots). 
You should get wingrass63RC3.zip so that this gets more testing.

If you want to compile grass yourself, then you need to follow the (I 
admit not so clear, yet) instructions in "Compiling by yourself"
http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Compiling_by_yourself.

Unless you have some particular reason to want to compile (you want to 
program yourself, or you need a feature which was just committed 
yesterday and is, therefore, not in the binary snapshot), I would 
recommend that you download the binary snapshot.

> so I downloaded grass-6.3.cvs_src_snapshot_2007_12_01
> and put it in C:\msys\1.0\home\user. Is that the correct location? 

You can put your source code wherever you want. It doesn't make any 
difference.

Moritz

>> Message du 14/12/07 à 13h28 De : "Moritz Lennert"
>> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> A : ines_cherif at voila.fr Copie à : 
>> Objet : Re: problems compiling WinGRASS
>> 
>> On 14/12/07 12:50, ines_cherif wrote:
>>> Hi, I try to go throught the compilation step (following the 
>>> instructions on 
>>> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Binary_snapshots)
>>> 
>> I imagine you mean 
>> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status#Compiling_by_yourself
>> 
>> 
>>> but I get an error: ./conf.sh: ./configure: No such file or
>>> directory
>> This means that 'configure' is not in the current directory ('./' 
>> indicates the current directory).
>> 
>> 
>>> I put the conf.sh file in C:\msys\1.0\bin
>> This is were the error lies.
>> 
>> You should put it into the directory where the grass source code
>> lies and run it there.
>> 
>> Out of curiosity: Why are you compiling and not using the binary
>> snapshot ?
>> 
>> Moritz
>> 
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