[GRASS-windows] Instructions for devel versions added to CompileOnWindows

[Colin Nielsen]

I've just finished adding instructions to the Wiki page for compiling
grass-6.5.svn (develbranch_6) and grass-7.0.svn (trunk). Please test.

> Colin, addictionally I suggest you include the format of path as unix
> on some steps, because it facilitate the copy and past (just to save
> time of those the decide to handle the things on MSYS).
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> 3. Copy c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\etc\fstab.sample to
> c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\etc\fstab (without .sample)
>     or
>  cp /c/OSGeo4W\apps\msys\etc\fstab.sample /c/OSGeo4W\apps\msys\etc\fstab
> -----
> 4. Open c:\osgeo4w\apps\msys\etc\fstab
>    or /c/OSGeo4W/apps/msys/etc/fstab
> --------
>
> 3. Open c:\osgeo4w\usr\src\grass64\mswindows\osgeo4w\package.sh and at line
> 12: Change:
>
> or /c/OSGeo4W/usr\src/\grass64/mswindows/osgeo4w/package.sh

I agree we could probably change step 3 to your suggestion, but I left
those lines in windows format because:
1) Windows users are more familiar with using windows explorer for
file management, and
2) For the other lines just typing /c/osgeo4w/apps/msys/etc/fstab will
not open the file for editing. This still has to be done externally in
notepad, notepad++ or some other text editor (I'm not touching
instructions for vim!).

> By the way, I remember that almost on my case I needed to incluide
> to extra steps before start GRASS
>
> GRASS_WISH=/c/OSGeo4W/bin/wish.exe
> export GRASS_WISH
> cd /c/OSGeo4W/apps/grass/bin
> grass6

Is this a problem specific to xp/vista 64-bit? Can you give us more
details on the error messages you receive? I believe the setting of
GRASS_WISH should be handled by etc/Init.sh. So if this isn't working
on x64 this should be fixed.

> Finally, now I get grass65 and not grass64, so I suggest update this.

Done.

-Colin

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> So, Colin and colleagues, THANKS a lot!!!
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> 2009/3/28 Milton Cezar Ribeiro <miltinho.astronauta at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Colin,
>>
>> Sorry, I really forgot the zlib-devel. My mistake.
>> But now I compiled and I have other issue.
>> When I start MSys, and define GRASS_WISH,
>> and execute GRASS I get the box to select
>> my MAPSET. After that I get the following error message:
>> This application has failed to start
>> because libintl3.dll was not found.
>> Re-installing the application may fix this problem.
>> Any idea? I need do compile GRASS again (how can I recompile?).
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> miltinho
>> Toronto, CA
>> 2009/3/28 Colin Nielsen <colin.nielsen at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> I believe you're missing the zlib-devel package, it contains zlib.h.
>>> (Re-)install this package, then try again. If it still fails, verify
>>> that zlib.h is in /osgeo4w/include. If it is there but is still
>>> failing let us know.
>>>
>>> -Colin
>>>
>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Milton Cezar Ribeiro
>>> <miltinho.astronauta at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Dear Colin,
>>> >
>>> > Thank you very much for your great work.
>>> > I am trying to follow your steps on a 64bit Vista Machine,
>>> > and got the following error.
>>> >
>>> > checking for socket... no
>>> > checking for socket in -lsocket... no
>>> > configure: warning: *** Unable to locate socket() function.
>>> > checking for location of zlib includes...
>>> > checking for zlib.h... no
>>> > configure: error: *** Unable to locate zlib includes.
>>> > Any idea?
>>> >
>>> > Best wishes,
>>> >
>>> > milton
>>> > Toronto, CA
>>> > 2009/3/28 Colin Nielsen <colin.nielsen at gmail.com>
>>> >>
>>> >> I just wanted to announce that the CompileOnWindows wiki entry
>>> >> <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows> is finished and
>>> >> now allows anyone to develop grass on windows (vista or xp) through
>>> >> the mingw/msys system with no dependency compiling and relatively
>>> >> little extra work (thanks to jef for solving all remaining issues by
>>> >> adding the mingw-libs package to the wiki).
>>> >>
>>> >> -Colin
>>> >> _______________________________________________
>>> >> grass-windows mailing list
>>> >> grass-windows at lists.osgeo.org
>>> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-windows
>>> >
>>> >
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