On 30/10/07 17:20, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
Moritz Lennert wrote:
On 30/10/07 14:13, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
The few remaining things on my list include:
- fiddling with the system paths in grass63.bat is too difficult. Would
be better if the user needed to set only one variable to where
GRASS is installed and everything else gets figured out from there.
Even better would be if grass63.bat could set the paths relative to
its own position in the filesystem, so that the user does not need
to edit it at all.
I'm not sure I understand this. I don't need to fiddle at all with
system paths in grass63.bat to get it to work. Could you explain what
exactly is the problem ?
Well, there is a path to the shell,
I don't know how you could automate this...
In any case, we decided to deactivate the references to msys and its
shell in grass63.bat since the idea is to create a windows port which is
completely independent from *nix-like/*nix-emulation tools such as msys.
That means that for the time being you cannot use shell scripts unless
you "activate" msys yourself.
there is a path to grass63.bat,
?
then you should add some directories so DLLs and EXEs will all be
found (at least on my system),
such as ?
All I need to add to my PATH variable is: c:\msys\bin and c:\msys\bin.
some things are specified Win style,
some Unix style ...
AFAIU, Windows understands both \ and / as path separator, so it
shouldn't make a difference, but you are right that we should unify this
if we can to avoid confusion.
- I also find it annoying that gis.m starts up in the foreground
and blocks command line input until you quit it.
Have you been able to get gis.m to run from cmd.exe ? I haven't and I
think we need a gis.m.bat.
Yes, I have been doing some twisting with "start", "cmd.exe" and
"exit /b" and all that other horrible stuff that Windows annoys you
with. In the end, I got things mostly working. I'd like to smooth
them out a bit tomorrow or on Thursday, then I will post my
changes.
I haven't had the time to look into this (maybe a bit later today if I
manage to finish the report I'm working on...), but as I said, I hope
that creating a "simple" gis.m bat file should suffice.
I can now confirm that NVIZ works fine with open source Tcl/Tk.
Great !
Could you give the details of which tcl/tk version, from where and how
you compiled it ? Do you have binaries we could distribute ?
I downloaded from http://www.tcl.tk/. Current version is 8.4.16 and that
works just fine. Compiles out-of-the-box under MSYS with no Makefile
tweaking or whatever and works great.
Sorry, but I need to prepare lectures for tomorrow now and it's a
horrible lot of work. Can't get back to this for now ...
I understand. Thanks a lot for testing free tcl/tk. I'll try to find
time myself for compiling it and then I can include it in the distribution.
Moritz
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