MIlton,
This is great. My only concern is how to successfully package and
distribute this to others. I've been working with Colin Nielsen, who
has kindly provided a couple of vista binaries in the past week and we
can't get either to work so far. The seem to need additional dll's
that are hidden somewhere in the system.
I'm sure that there must be a way to package this up, but I don't know
what it is.
Michael
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On Mar 30, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Milton Cezar Ribeiro wrote:
I Just compiled grass6.5 under Msys Vista 64b, but I don't know if
it helps.
I am not familiar with the generation of installer, but I can share
the directories with the grass structure....
Bests
miltinho
2009/3/26 Michael Barton <[email protected]>
Whether you like it or not, it is nearly impossible to get a new PC
without Windows Vista today. If we want GRASS to be accessible to
Windows users, we need to have versions that run under Vista.
Over the past year, the development team have worked to solve many
issues that kept GRASS from running under Vista in the past. The
only problem now is that there are no Windows Vista binaries for
users. Furthermore, there is no current stand-alone Windows binary
for GRASS at all.
Marco Pasetti made a very nice Windows installer for 6.3 last year,
but is unable to continue this work.
Other folks in OSGEO have created OSGEO4W with a number of packages.
However, GRASS is in the 'advanced' section--and it is not clear
what libraries need to be downloaded with it--and it cannot be
installed stand-alone.
Also, as far as I can tell, the OSGEO4W binary is compiled with
Windows XP. It opens in Vista but various modules insidiously fail
(e.g. r.patch, v.patch, v.what.rast, and others). Anyone who
installs GRASS under Windows Vista will perceive it as a very buggy
and semi-functional program.
So if we are serious about making GRASS as cross-platform as we
claim, we need some windows knowledgeable volunteers who can 1) help
the OSGEO4W team create a Vista version and 2) produce binary
versions of GRASS for XP and Vista to go along with the current
Linux and Mac versions. The current GRASS dev team has done a
fantastic job over the past 2 years of making GRASS compilable under
Windows, but are working hard on maintaining and developing the
module and interface code.
So we really need some new volunteers to tackle maintaining Windows
binaries. Is there anyone able to take this on?
Michael
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