Re: [Opengrads-devel] Cygwin DLLs for the DAP version of GrADS2.0a3

[Arlindo da S. <da...@al...>]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:58 AM, John Huddleston <jhu...@hu...> wrote:
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> I hope you are having a nice vacation!
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> I've uploaded the Cygwin DLLs required to run the DAP version of GrADS2.0a3.
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> Would you please move grads-cygwin-dap-dlls.zip to the ftp site for the GrADS users?
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Did you have a chance to test this on a machine where cygwin is not
installed? In particular, there are issues with the cygwin file system
(for example, is /tmp mounted somewhere?) that can lead to bizarre
behavior.

BTW, I finally got around to make a "Win32 Superpack" build for GrADS
2.0.a3, which follows the same approach I had for the latest
v1.0.0-rc1, with a .exe, .zip and a light weight tarball for people
with cygwin already installed. You can find the files here:

               http://opengrads.org/devel/grads2/

>From the sf.net download stats for v1.9.0-rc1 on sf.net, the
superpack.exe has 561 downloads, the superpack.zip 208 downloads, and
the plain tarball only 69 downloads. Linux i686 got 278 downloads,
Linux x86_64 got 118 downloads. By far, the win32 builds are the most
widely used, something that was a bit of a surprise to me. It could be
that the Linux version is installed on servers with muiltiple users,
while win32 is more of a personal thing.

I also uploaded the latest supplibs-2.0.1 for cygwin to sf.net:

         http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=241681

At this time the best way to get the sources I used for the superpack,
including the Ino Setup scripts that I used for the setup.exe kind of
packaging, is to checkout code from the opengrads repository:

cvs -d:pserver:ano...@op...:/cvsroot/opengrads login

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@op...:/cvsroot/opengrads
co -r GRADS2_DEV_BRANCH grads

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:ano...@op...:/cvsroot/opengrads
co -r GRADS2_DEV_BRANCH PCGrADS_base

  I'll wait until we finish merging our build scripts with COLA's to
write a wiki page about preparing the Win32 Superpack. If you checkout
the sources above, take a look at main_win32.c to see some of tricks I
had to do for getting it to work stably on a machine without cygwin
installed. Or else, you can browse this file here:

 http://opengrads.cvs.sourceforge.net/opengrads/grads/src/main_win32.c?view=markup&pathrev=GRADS2_DEV_BRANCH

If you would like to join us and take over the maintenance of the
win32 superpack and subsequent builds just drop me a note.

   Cheers!

          Arlindo

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