[GRASS-dev] MinGW/MSYS Build

Huddleston_John · January 28, 2011, 2:38pm

Hi

I have starting building GRASS6.4.1RC1 under the native Windows MinGW/MSYS (not Cygwin) environment.

Most of the build is straight forward; although, I did have to modify the psdriver area slightly since there is a duplicate init_color_table function under the pngdriver.

Now I am up to the point where it requires the X11 libraries. Does anyone have any experience building X11 under MinGW? Should I be using XFree86-4.8.0 or some other source.

Any insight would be most appreciated.

Thank you,

John Huddleston, PhD

Glynn_Clements1 · January 29, 2011, 5:42am

Huddleston, John wrote:

I have starting building GRASS6.4.1RC1 under the native Windows
MinGW/MSYS (not Cygwin) environment.

Now I am up to the point where it requires the X11 libraries. Does
anyone have any experience building X11 under MinGW? Should I be
using XFree86-4.8.0 or some other source.

There isn't much point building GRASS with X11 support under native
Windows. The standalone display drivers (d.mon etc) don't work for
reasons unrelated to X.

If you need to use d.mon on Windows, Cygwin is the only option.

--
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>

Huddleston_John · January 29, 2011, 4:24pm

Thank you Glynn,

I just needed the base libraries to build GSTAT (http://www.gstat.org/download.html); which, I just finished today.

I contacted Colin Harrison to get the Xming X11 libraries.

Based on your input; though, I'll not pursue this any further.

John

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