Running GrADS on Windows XP

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Morgan Silverman <mlsilver at ncsu.edu> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am trying to run GrADS on Windows XP with Cygwin. I downloaded grads-
> 1.8sl11-xwin32.exe and am able to open GrADS so I see the display window
> and prompt. I am unable to open my data file though.
>
>
Because Win32 is built with cygwin, the cygwin1.dll version it is bundled
with GrADS has to match the version of the other Cygwin you have installed.
Version 1.8sl11-xwin32.exe is more than 5 years old and it may be tricky to
get it to work with a newer version of Cygwin. Here are my recommendations:

1) Install the most recent v1.9-rc1 Win32 Superpack from sf.net


http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=161773&package_id=270750

   You can find some more info about this release here:


http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_GrADS_on_Microsoft_Windows

2) If you prefer to stay with v1.8, try deleting or renaming the
"cygwin1.dll" that came with GrADS with the one in your cygwin release. Very
important: *reboot* and start GrADS again.

     Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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