GrADS for Cygwin

[Ben-Jei Tsuang]

Dear Arlindo:

Thank you for the information. I have download a binary version from
http://grads.iges.org/grads/downloads.html. This version can be run from M/S
window. But I am wondering that do you have a version which can be run under
Cygwin bash shell? Or I have to build it from the  supplibs provided?

Ben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arlindo da Silva" <dasilva at ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:08 AM
Subject: Re: GrADS for Cygwin


> 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
>
> --
> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu