WinGRASS 6 Current Status

This page describes the current status of winGRASS development. Precompiled native winGRASS packages are available here.

What is missing?

Display drivers: socket
- Use gis.m instead of monitors.
- Make gis.m Output window more like xterm. No need to hit Run.
- Is there any way that the Map Display in gis.m can interact with console commands? IPC? File Alteration Monitor?
i.class: SIGALRM, SIGTSTP (are these signals important?)
wait() in:
- i.ortho.photo/photo.2image: wait()
- i.ortho.photo/photo.2target: wait()
- i.points: wait()
- i.vpoints: wait()
- Note: also in lib/gis/popen.c and lib/gis/system.c (use those implementations?)
r.terraflow: getrusage()

metacharacter escape in "sh -c '$cmd'"
modules not working: r.proj (v.proj too?), r.surf.rst, v.neighbors, v.kernel, r.cost
Cannot open Help pages.
Have to add c:\mingw\bin to PATH on some systems.
- You should have typed c:/mingw instead of c:\mingw when asked by the MinGW installer.
Have to type "exit" in the console to save ~/.grassrc file. Then, close gis.m to finish the session.
A previous installation of grass under cygwin is likely to cause problems with WinGrass. Follow the directions to remove cygwin at http://cygwin.com/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.setup.uninstall-all

The following items cannot be fixed in the near future:

Cannot display a thematic layer.
- d.vect.thematic requires PNG driver, which is not available in winGRASS.
- can't read "_data(.gronsole.gronsole,4,donecmd)": no such element in array error
- Aqua TclTk solution: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=5096&display=History

cannot run shell scripts: only .com, .exe, .bat
- sh -c '$cmd'
var=val style argument is not valid for batch files: equal sign is a separator like a space. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=71247 http://www.gatago.com/alt/msdos/batch/17358926.html
- need .exe wrapper for shell scripts? grass-xterm-wrapper.exe
file command returns bad code (catch is needed): http://sources.redhat.com/ml/insight/2003-q1/msg00079.html
- catch {file copy}
- catch {file delete}
- catch {file rename -force} does not work. Delete old file first: catch {file delete}; catch {file rename}
file redirection (>@stdout, 2>@stderr) does not work: http://wiki.tcl.tk/672
- exec a batch file doing redirection (>&2, 2>&1)
no -permissions file attributes
- catch {file attributes -permissions}

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