[ncl-install] NCL 6.2.0 precompiled binary for cygwin

[Mary Haley]

Joe,

The "ncl.exe" is something that Cygwin does, I believe, and not the build system. The strange thing is is doesn't seem to be consistent with which one it uses.

And yes, you can copy over ncl.exe to ncl, or else create a link:

  cd $NCARG_ROOT/bin
  ln -s ncl.exe ncl

--Mary

On Apr 24, 2014, at 7:12 AM, Joe Grim <grim at ucar.edu> wrote:

> I figured out the problem. I typed "ncl" instead of "ncl.exe".  Do you know why the executable name has added the ".exe" onto the end?  Can I just copy "ncl.exe" over "ncl" in /usr/local/bin/?  Or create a symbolic link?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Haley [mailto:haley at ucar.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 8:38 PM
> To: Joe Grim
> Cc: ncl-install at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [ncl-install] NCL 6.2.0 precompiled binary for cygwin
> 
> Hi Joe,
> 
> I just went to www.earthsystemgrid.org and followed the links to the "ncl_​ncarg-​6.​2.​0.​CYGWIN_​NT-​6.​1-​WOW64_​i686.​tar.​gz" file. I downloaded this file, gunzipped and untarred it, and verified that it was version 6.2.0 by typing:
> 
> ./ncl.exe -V
> 
> The above echoed 6.2.0.
> 
> Please check that you are actually running the NCL that you just installed, and not an old one that you may have had on your system.  You need to make sure NCARG_ROOT is set correctly, and that $NCARG_ROOT/bin is on your search path before any other paths that may contain old versions of NCL.
> 
> You can verify some of this by typing (at the UNIX prompt):
> 
> which ncl
> env | grep NCARG
> ncl -V
> 
> This section may help:
> 
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml#SetUpEnvironment
> 
> --Mary
> 
> On Apr 20, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Joe Grim <grim at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I downloaded the latest precompiled binary of NCL 6.2.0 for cygwin.  When I gunzipped and untarred the file, I found that its contents were for NCL v. 6.1.2.  (By the way, I followed all of the instructions on the NCL website for installing it for cygwin: http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml)  Would you mind looking into this, please?  Thanks!
>> 
>> Joe Grim
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