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

[John H. <jhu...@hu...>]

Good morning Arlindo

Thank you for suggesting that extra test. There was one additional DLL
cygxml2-2.dll that was missing. I added the additional DLL file to the
grads-cygwin-dap-dlls.zip ZIP container and uploaded the new file this
morning. It has been tested successfully with the standard datasets. Would
you please send me a control file or set of commands to test the DAP portion
of the GrADS application?

Thanks for all you notes and links. I'll look at these and get back to you
on the builds.

John Huddleston, PhD, PE
jhu...@hu... 

-----Original Message-----
From: arl...@gm... [mailto:arl...@gm...] On Behalf
Of Arlindo da Silva
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 12:02 PM
To: jhu...@hu...
Cc: ope...@li...
Subject: Re: Cygwin DLLs for the DAP version of GrADS2.0a3

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:58 AM, John Huddleston <jhu...@hu...>
wrote:
>
> Jennifer,
>
>
>
> I hope you are having a nice vacation!
>
>
>
> I've uploaded the Cygwin DLLs required to run the DAP version of
GrADS2.0a3.
>
>
>
> Would you please move grads-cygwin-dap-dlls.zip to the ftp site for the
GrADS users?
>
>

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=2416
81

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=m
arkup&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

--
Arlindo da Silva
da...@al...