[ncl-install] NCL V6.3.0 works under Windows 10 (under Cygwin/X)

[Mary Haley]

Chris,

I'll try to remember to run that command when I get home tonight.

Meanwhile, are you saying that when you type:

ncl -V

it just returns the UNIX prompt without any error message or any other
output?

What happens if you type:

ng4ex cn05n -clean

?

Did you actually download a new "setup-x86.exe" program and run that, or
did you run an old setup program that you already had on your system? It's
very important to run the new one.  Also, it's important to let the program
update all the packages it needs to.

Finally, if you continue to have problems, you may need to consider
completely reinstalling Cygwin from scratch, using the latest available
setup-x86.exec program, of course.

--Mary


On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Brierley, Chris <c.brierley at ucl.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Thank you for that effort, Mary.
>
>
>
> It’s certainly reassuring that running NCL under Windows 10 is possible.
> All I need to do now is get it up and running on my machine. I’m sure that
> I have not got the correct packages installed at present, as I didn’t have
> original ones for it automatically update.
>
>
>
> Would you please be able to post a list of what packages you have
> installed? The command is cygcheck -c
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
>
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> Good news for people wondering if they can still run NCL if they upgrade to
>
> Windows 10:
>
>
>
> I went through the admittedly torturous process of updating my Windows 7
>
> system to Windows 10. I verified that I could still use the NCL 6.3.0
>
> Cygwin binary that I had installed under Windows 7 and the older Cygwin.
>
>
>
> After Windows 10 was installed, I upgraded X/Cygwin by downloading and
>
> running the latest setup-x86.exe program from http://x.cygwin.com/. <http://x.cygwin.com/> This
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> took about 20 minutes and didn't have any problems. I didn't have to select
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> any new packages, because the setup program recognized what old versions of
>
> software I had (like gcc and gfortran), and automatically upgraded all of
>
> these for me.
>
>
>
> One thing that is different is in how you start an X11 "xterm"
>
> application.  Running "xterm" is necessary if you want to run NCL scripts
>
> that display the graphics to an X11 window.
>
>
>
> If you always send your graphics to a file, like a PNG, PS, or PDF files,
>
> then you can simply run NCL scripts from within a Cygwin Window.
>
>
>
> To start an X11 xterm:
>
>
>
>    - Run Cygwin (a Cygwin Terminal window should pop up)
>
>
>
>    - Type "startxwin" inside this terminal window. A tiny X logo should
>
>    show up on your task bar (on my screen in was in the lower right of the
>
>    screen).
>
>
>
>    - Left-click on this X logo and a menu should pop up. Select "System
>
>    Tools -> XTerm" and an xterm should start up.
>
>
>
>    - You can now run NCL scripts inside this xterm, including those that
>
>    display their graphics to an X11 window.
>
>
>
> --Mary
>
>
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