Has the development of a native MS-Win driver continued ?
Moritz
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Subject: winGRASS
From: "Jack Garner" <jgarner@envirogroup.com>
Date: Mon, November 8, 2004 22:16
To: mlennert@club.worldonline.be
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Moritz -
I've been thinking about installing winGRASS on my PC (running Win2000)
but have been avoiding it because of all the intermediary packages which
make the install very complex.
Just noticed this comment on your Grass Tutorial:
http://grass.itc.it/gdp/grass5tutor/HTML_en/c80.html
X11 window system for graphical output, development libraries (X
development libraries, in some linux distributions they are separate
packages)
http://www.xfree.org
(winGRASS: As alternative a generic MS-Windows driver is under
construction which does not require X11)
To your knowledge, has the development of the MS-Windows driver happened
yet? It would be a lot easier to deal with to only have Cygwin in front
of winGRASS!!
Would appreciate your responce, Thanks!
Jack Garner
jgarner@envirogroup.com
Moritz Lennert wrote:
Has the development of a native MS-Win driver continued ?
The driver has existed for a while. The --enable-w11 configure switch
causes XDRIVER to use an Xlib emulation library which eliminates the
need for an X server.
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
On Tue, November 9, 2004 17:04, glynn@gclements.plus.com said:
Moritz Lennert wrote:
Has the development of a native MS-Win driver continued ?
The driver has existed for a while. The --enable-w11 configure switch
causes XDRIVER to use an Xlib emulation library which eliminates the
need for an X server.
So, this means that it exists and can be used, but that it is outdated and
no longer supported ?
Moritz
Moritz Lennert wrote:
>> Has the development of a native MS-Win driver continued ?
>
> The driver has existed for a while. The --enable-w11 configure switch
> causes XDRIVER to use an Xlib emulation library which eliminates the
> need for an X server.
So, this means that it exists and can be used, but that it is outdated and
no longer supported ?
It's supported in the sense that I will make reasonable efforts to fix
any bugs which are reported.
Note that it isn't a separate driver, in the sense that XDRIVER and
the PNG driver are separate drivers. If you use --enable-w11,
configure will arrange for libX11.a to be built from the
src/display/devices/windows directory, and the X compilation and
linking switches will be be set up so that XDRIVER uses that instead
of e.g. /usr/X11R6/{include,lib}.
Also, this only applies to XDRIVER. Anything else which uses X (e.g.
NVIZ, xganim, r3.showdspf.opengl, tcltkgrass, d.dm) still requires an
X server.
[tcltkgrass and d.dm can't use Cygwin's Tcl/Tk because it isn't
compatible with Cygwin (its file-handling functions use Windows
pathnames rather than Cygwin pathnames). The only available Tcl/Tk
implementation which *is* compatible with Cygwin is the xtcltk
package, and that requires an X server (xtcltk is just the standard
Unix/X11 Tcl/Tk built for Cygwin).]
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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>