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).
> -------
> 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

>
> So, Colin and colleagues, THANKS a lot!!!
>
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> miltinho
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> 2009/3/28 Milton Cezar Ribeiro <[hidden email]>
>>
>> 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 <[hidden email]>
>>>
>>> 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
>>> <[hidden email]> 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 <[hidden email]>
>>> >>
>>> >> 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
>>> >> _______________________________________________
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>>> >
>>> >
>>
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[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Colin Nielsen <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Milton:
>> 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?

See
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/71

> 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.

In etc/init.bat I see
if "%GRASS_WISH%"=="" set GRASS_WISH=wish.exe

Apparently wish.exe is not in the path in OSGeo4W and hence
the full path needs to be specified. But this seems to be OSGeo4W
specific.

Markus
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[Colin Nielsen]

The grass64 (non-bat) startup from within msys uses Init.sh rather
than Init.bat. I think the equivalent in init.sh is line 299:
GRASS_WISH=wish

Perhaps this is a PATH problem, since wish.exe is in /osgeo4w/bin
which should be in PATH. I can't be sure, since grass starts fine for
me without the wish error.

-Colin



On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Markus Neteler <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Colin Nielsen <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Milton:
>>> 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?
>
> See
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/71
>
>> 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.
>
> In etc/init.bat I see
> if "%GRASS_WISH%"=="" set GRASS_WISH=wish.exe
>
> Apparently wish.exe is not in the path in OSGeo4W and hence
> the full path needs to be specified. But this seems to be OSGeo4W
> specific.
>
> Markus
>

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[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Colin Nielsen <[hidden email]> wrote:
> The grass64 (non-bat) startup from within msys uses Init.sh rather
> than Init.bat. I think the equivalent in init.sh is line 299:
> GRASS_WISH=wish

Ah, ok. So I guess that a condition is needed: if Windows, then wish.exe,
not wish. Maybe Milton can try that?

> Perhaps this is a PATH problem, since wish.exe is in /osgeo4w/bin
> which should be in PATH. I can't be sure, since grass starts fine for
> me without the wish error.

Still just guessing :)

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[Milton Cezar Ribeiro]

Hi Colin & Markus,

 

I changed the line 299 of .../etc/Init.sh on three ways:

  a)  GRASS_WISH=wish.exe

  b)  GRASS_WISH=/c/OSGeo4W/bin/wish.exe

  c)  GRASS_WISH=/c/OSGeo4W/bin/wish85.exe

 

After I started MSYS and GRASS65: choices (b) and (c) worked fine,

but (a) still get error. May be we need to include "/c/OSGeo4W/bin"

on the PATH?

 

In fact, when I am writing, I tested options (b) and (c) and GRASS bypass

the WISH problem. But I get SEVERAL errors under MSYS, because

the system say that CAN'T find several lib** files, and CRASH. It happens only

under MSYS!

 

BUT, if I add the path as shown below (etc/Init.sh) the things are solved.

 

if [ -n "$GRASS_ADDON_PATH" ] ; then
   PATH="$GISBASE/bin:$GISBASE/scripts:$GRASS_ADDON_PATH:/c/OSGeo4W/bin:$PATH"
else
   PATH="$GISBASE/bin:$GISBASE/scripts:/c/OSGeo4W/bin:$PATH"
fi

So, I think we need to include the OSGeo4W/bin on the PATH almost for

VISTA 64bits.

 

I Continue testing... Remembering that I compiled GRASS 6.5 yesterday (MSYS).

 

Curiously, I get the same problems (GRASS Crashing AFTER RUN ONLY ONE TIME AFTER INSTALATION UNDER MSYS) on the grass64 binaries compiled and available on OSGeo4 site. I don't know the reason of the GRASS run once time and

not run fine again...

 

Well, I am here to test... almost under Vista (sorry!) 64.

 

milton

2009/3/29 Markus Neteler <[hidden email]>

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Colin Nielsen <[hidden email]> wrote:
> The grass64 (non-bat) startup from within msys uses Init.sh rather
> than Init.bat. I think the equivalent in init.sh is line 299:
> GRASS_WISH=wish

Ah, ok. So I guess that a condition is needed: if Windows, then wish.exe,
not wish. Maybe Milton can try that?

> Perhaps this is a PATH problem, since wish.exe is in /osgeo4w/bin
> which should be in PATH. I can't be sure, since grass starts fine for
> me without the wish error.

Still just guessing :)

Markus

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