I will leave this site up for awhile but will not update it. I'll eventually take it down.

I will leave this site up for awhile but will not update it. I'll eventually take it down.

Enjoy
Michael

Enjoy!

I would attach a screenshot, but the system doesn't allow me to do so.

I am using macOS Monterey 12.4 and Grass 8.2.0, but I get this error also with Grass 8.0.2 and 7.8.6

Download of 8.0.2 works normally.

I also did a little bit of updating and reorganization of the site to make downloads easier.

The tutorials will be added to this YouTube playlist.

See announcement at: https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2022_03_22_new_video_tutorials_for_grass_8/

Also numerous new features and bug fixes. Read about it at https://grass.osgeo.org/news/2022_01_30_grass_gis_8_0_0_released/ and at https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.0.0

In 2022, GRASS is moving to create a new stable release of version 8. This is a major update to GRASS, involving its GUI interface and underlying modules. Keep in mind that a full version update may not be backward compatible with older versions (though this one is backward compatible with most older GRASS functions and commands. I've posted the first formal release candidate.

I also posted a slight update to the version 7.8.6 binary. This binary does not require you to install a separate X11 application (it is not used in GRASS for Mac anyway).

Enjoy
Michael

I have tried using the LINUX and Windows environmental variable and run the program
Linux
export GRASS_BIN="/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/grass78

Windows adjusted to the mac
export GRASSBASE="/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/bin/grass78
export GISRC="/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/demolocation/.grassrc78"
export PATH="/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/lib:/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/bin:/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/scripts"

However, when I run the script, it can't find grass_session because there is no link between Anaconda and GRASS.

Any help someone can provide would greatly be appreciated since I have spent a couple of days going no where. Thanks.

Kind Regards,

Shaffiq

I'd be grateful for some guidance setting up the OSX 7.9 binary with command line access. The goal is to interact with location/mapset via the python grass-script library.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Peter

Enjoy!

Also, the GRASS extensions issue has been solved as much as it can. If you want to compile anything (including GRASS extensions in C or C++), you must have the Developer Command Line Tools installed, including a current SDK (software developer kit) folder. We cannot bundle these in GRASS because of licensing issues. But it is easy to install the Command Line Tools if you want to compile extensions (or anything else). See new notes on the download page.

I also want to thank GRASS dev team member Nicklas Larsson who has created a really slick way to automate my protocol for compiling GRASS and creating these binaries using Anaconda (originally worked out by Eric Hutton). It is now very easy to create a Mac app if you have Anaconda installed.

Thank you for posting up the latest GRASS GIS 7.8 - I've been testing it out with r.in.pdal (which I was able sucessfully install via g.extension). I've had some difficulty installing orther extensions such as r.geomorphon in that g.extension appears to be looking for a directory to SDKs at /users/cmbarton/SDKs

I'm not sure if this would require a new version to resolve. I should tell you that r.in.pdal is working well. Thanks for your work.

Rob
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Lindas-iMac:~ lindaedwards$ /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/Users/lindaedwards PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/etc:/usr/lib /Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/MacOS/Grass.sh
Rebuilding Addon HTML manual pages index…
Rebuilding Addon menu…
Default locale not found, using UTF-8
Default locale settings are missing. GRASS running with C locale.
Starting GRASS GIS…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 1146, in OnInit
StartUp = GRASSStartup()
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 225, in init
self._set_properties(grassVersion, grassRevisionStr)
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 286, in _set_properties
self.OnSetDatabase(None)
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 923, in OnSetDatabase
self.OnSelectLocation(None)
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 858, in OnSelectLocation
self.lblocations.GetSelection()]))
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 825, in UpdateMapsets
gisdbase=self.gisdbase)
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/core/gcmd.py", line 719, in RunCommand
stdout, stderr = list(map(DecodeString, ps.communicate()))
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/core/gcmd.py", line 72, in DecodeString
return string.decode(_enc)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xce in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
OnInit returned false, exiting…
ERROR: Error in GUI startup. See messages above (if any) and if necessary, please report this error to the GRASS developers.
On systems with package manager, make sure you have the right GUI package, probably named grass-gui, installed.
To run GRASS GIS in text mode use the text flag.
Use 'help' for further options
grass78 —help
See also:[link to 7.8 manual]
Exiting…

Thanks for all your work on this - it works fine on my MacBookPro with Catalina.

when i srart Frass78.3 ,….

Last login: Sun May 31 07:54:45 on ttys004
/usr/bin/env -i HOME=/Users/XYZ PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/etc:/usr/lib /Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/MacOS/Grass.sh
XYZ@xyz ~ % /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/Users/XYZ PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/etc:/usr/lib /Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/MacOS/Grass.sh
Rebuilding Addon HTML manual pages index…
Rebuilding Addon menu…
Default locale not found, using UTF-8
Default locale settings are missing. GRASS running with C locale.
Starting GRASS GIS…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 1146, in OnInit
StartUp = GRASSStartup()
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 225, in init
self._set_properties(grassVersion, grassRevisionStr)
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 286, in _set_properties
self.OnSetDatabase(None)
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 923, in OnSetDatabase
self.OnSelectLocation(None)
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 858, in OnSelectLocation
self.lblocations.GetSelection()]))
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/gis_set.py", line 825, in UpdateMapsets
gisdbase=self.gisdbase)
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/core/gcmd.py", line 719, in RunCommand
stdout, stderr = list(map(DecodeString, ps.communicate()))
File "/Applications/GRASS-7.8.app/Contents/Resources/gui/wxpython/core/gcmd.py", line 72, in DecodeString
return string.decode(_enc)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
OnInit returned false, exiting…
ERROR: Error in GUI startup. See messages above (if any) and if necessary, please report this error to the GRASS developers.
On systems with package manager, make sure you have the right GUI package, probably named grass-gui, installed.
To run GRASS GIS in text mode use the text flag.
Use 'help' for further options
grass78 —help
See also: htt……..
Exiting…
XYZ@xyz ~ %
XYZ@xyz ~ %

please help!

this is where I locate my scripts. I expect I should move them to the location you suggest. Thanks!

Where are you putting the script? The best place is in ~/Library/Application\ Support/GRASS/7.0/Modules/scripts

Michael

SESSION

Last login: Mon Apr 6 13:07:48 on ttys000

The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit []

| ~ @ uppsetnings-MacBook-Pro-4 (jeir)
| => /usr/bin/env -i HOME=/Users/jeir PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/etc:/usr/lib /Applications/GRASS-7.9.app/Contents/MacOS/Grass.sh
Rebuilding Addon HTML manual pages index…
Rebuilding Addon menu…
Default locale not found, using UTF-8
Default locale settings are missing. GRASS running with C locale.
Starting GRASS GIS…
Cleaning up temporary files…

__ _ __ _
/ / __ \/ | / _/ _/ / / _/ _/
/ / __/ /_/ / /| | \ \\_ \ / / __ / / \__ / /_/ / _, _/ _ |_/ // / / /_/ // / _/ /
\/_/ |_/_/ |_/// \/_//__/

Welcome to GRASS GIS 7.9.dev (c934bb68b)
GRASS GIS homepage: []
This version running through: Bourne Shell (sh)
Help is available with the command: g.manual -i
See the licence terms with: g.version -c
See citation options with: g.version -x
If required, restart the GUI with: g.gui wxpython
When ready to quit enter: exit

Launching <wxpython> GUI in the background, please wait…
GRASS 7.9.dev (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ > WARNING: GRASS GIS libgis version and date number not available
WARNING: GRASS GIS libgis version and date number not available

GRASS 7.9.dev (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ > tr_a.py
This program needs access to the screen. Please run with a
Framework build of python, and only when you are logged in
on the main display of your Mac.
GRASS 7.9.dev (nc_spm_08_grass7):~ >

SCRIPT

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-
#%Module
#% description: test wx
#% keywords: region
#%end
#
############################################################################

import wx
class MyFrame(wx.Frame):
"""create a color frame, inherits from wx.Frame"""
def init(self, parent):
# -1 is the default ID
wx.Frame.init(self, parent, -1, "Click for mouse position", size=(400,300),
style=wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE | wx.NO_FULL_REPAINT_ON_RESIZE)
self.SetBackgroundColour('Goldenrod')
self.SetCursor(wx.StockCursor(wx.CURSOR_PENCIL))

# hook some mouse events
self.Bind(wx.EVT_LEFT_DOWN, self.OnLeftDown)
self.Bind(wx.EVT_RIGHT_DOWN, self.OnRightDown)

def OnLeftDown(self, event):
"""left mouse button is pressed"""
pt = event.GetPosition() # position tuple
print (pt)
self.SetTitle('LeftMouse = ' + str(pt))

def OnRightDown(self, event):
"""right mouse button is pressed"""
pt = event.GetPosition()
print (pt)
self.SetTitle('RightMouse = ' + str(pt))
app = wx.App()
frame = MyFrame(None)
frame.Show(True)
app.MainLoop()

#!/usr/bin/env python3

Any ideas?

These are both development releases (technically 7.8.3 and 7.9) because they include a number of important fixes for long running Mac problems. Most important of these is that the digitizer finally works again. The interactive classifier for remote sensing training sets may be working too. There are a number of other Mac specific bug fixes.

Also these new binaries are compiled with Python 3.6.10 and gdal 3. I hope to compile future ones with Python 3.7 or 3.8, but these are causing me problems right now. I hope that these new binaries resolve some of the issues few people have been having the last several months.

Note that for some reason, these binaries take a LONG time to open sometimes. I have no idea why. Be patient.

Keep safe and well
Michael

I'm new at this, and i'm trying to work with GRASS within QGIS. First i installed QGIS 3.8 (i had earlier versions), and when i tried to run GRASS commands, QGIS says that GRASS can not be found.

I installed the GRASS 7.7 version in a Macbook pro late 2011, High Sierra OS, and i cant open it, i followed all the instructions for the instalation, but doesn't seemed to work. Appears an OSStatus -67062 error.

I mannualy changed the directory of GRASS at QGIS processing tools, but didn't worked too.

Hope you can help me, and sorry for the bad english,

Thanks in advance

Martín

How can i fix this problem? :) thanks

The digitizer is still broken but hopefully this can be fixed in the near future.