Missing DLL for sed utility in grads-1.9.0rc1 win32 superpack

[Eric Altshuler]

Arlindo,

I have checked the utilities one by one (unfortunately, your suggested csh loop resulted in a lot of error messages because most of the programs don't recognize -help as an option) and none seem to have any problems except the three I mentioned before (sed, dos2unix, unix2dos). I haven't been able to get rxvt to work, though. If I type 'rxvt' at the command line, a small window appears for a very short time (<0.25 second) and disappears immediately. Is rxvt supposed to work without any command line options?

As for other unix utilities that would be nice to have in your package, I can think of three right away: grep, tar and gunzip. Of these, grep is the most essential because of its usefulness with wgrib, among other things.

Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arlindo da Silva" <dasilva at ALUM.MIT.EDU>
To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
Sent: Friday, March 7, 2008 5:58:33 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Missing DLL for sed utility in grads-1.9.0rc1 win32 superpack


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Eric Altshuler < ela at cola.iges.org > wrote:


I have found that the 'sed' utility included in the win32 superpack doesn't work because the DLL 'cygintl-3.dll' is not included in the package. Also as Stephen McMillan pointed out, the dos2unix (and unix2dos) commands don't work because cygpopt-0.dll is also missing. I haven't tested all the utilities but it would be good to have all the necessary DLL's included in the superpack.



Will do in next week's release. Â It is hard for me to caught this errors because I have a full cygwin environment on my development machine. Can you run through all the *.exe in the win32/ directory and let me know of any other missing DLL? I simple csh script like this might do it.


foreach exe ( *.exe )
 $exe -help
 if ( $status ) echo "++++++ check $exec"
end


BTW, is there any other Unix utility that you would like to see included? The idea here is to make it easier to port GrADS scripts from Linux/Unix to Windows. Â Of course, I do not want to replicate a full Cygwin distro, but can always include a couple more utilities.


      Arlindo

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