GRASS GIS

User Notes

• A commandline and desktop raster/vector GIS system.
• ​http://grass.osgeo.org/
• Details on WinGRASS at: ​http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status
• Current packaging should be considered a preliminary proof-of-concept.
• STATUS: THIS PACKAGE IS CURRENTLY BROKEN - IT DEPENDS ON PROJ_FW.DLL INSTEAD OF PROJ.DLL!
  • Workaround: COPY C:\OSGeo4W\bin\proj.dll C:\OSGeo4W\bin\proj_fw.dll
• Use the "grass63" command in the OSGeo4W shell to start grass.
• Maintainer is FrankWarmerdam (seeking new package maintainer)

Packager Notes

• Alternative, new compile guide at ​http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html
• We likely want to distribute with MSYS package for commandline operations though I believe the WinGRASS objective is to not require this.
• WinGRASS is built with MSYS/MinGW currently. The build to use VC++ built GDAL required a configure hack on GRASS.
• There is a new python/wxWindows GUI in development we may want to include.
• A number of things still being built directly into GRASS instead of using proper packages (curses, freetype, libpng, libz, ...)