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Building Metlibs and Diana on Windows
This set of pages describe how to compile metlibs and Diana on Windows using MinGW and MSYS.
2010-06-16 new diana-3.26.0-win32.zip. The zip file includes the diana and bdiana binaries, the required Qt DLLs, the MinGW runtime DLL, a working setup file and all the required icons etc., but no maps or data. Extract the zip file into C:\
and run C:\met.no\bin\diana.bat
. If you want to extract it somewhere else, you will have to edit diana.bat
. Extract the maps and demodata into C:\met.no\share\diana\
. ERRATA there is still an issue with diana.setup
. Open C:\met.no\etc\diana\diana.setup
and replace every occurrence of Helvetica
with Arial
.
Read this first
- Known issues and how to work around them OUT OF DATE (most issues have been resolved or worked around)
Please report any issues to dag-erling.smorgrav@systek.no
Features in Diana not supported on Windows
- The profet field edit tool
Known issues
- Large file support - The current version of diana do not support large files (>2G) in the met.no felt format. The met.no felt files are read by the fortran library libmi. The problem might be related to the fortran compiler
The entire process, in sequence:
- The basics:
- Preparing for metlibs:
- Preparing for Diana:
- The release process:
See also running.
Other useful resources: