GrADS for Cygwin

[Arlindo da Silva]

On 8/14/07, Ben-Jei Tsuang <btsuang at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I found that Cygwin seems to be a good Linux environemnt for Window XP. Does
> anyone have a version of GrADS, which can be run in Cygwin?
>

I've been using grads with cygwin for about 10 years although I have
not put out any builds since v1.8. The trick is not to build grads
proper, but its dependencies, although this got better over time.
Using grads with an X under windows is relatively straightforward,
specially now that cygwin bundles a free X server.  I have another
version which does not require an X server, but still uses an internal
X11 emulation; my hope is to be able to use cairo in the future to
bypass X altogether. I have posted all my cygwin supplibs and
instructions here:

               ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/Supplibs/1.8/lib/

Once the v1.9.0 is out I may produce a final win32/win32e build. You
*may* be able to use my windows builds under the download area with a
recent cygwin but you may need to refresh the cygwin.dll shipped with
it.

  Have fun!

                  Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
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