diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/d/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-0.110-GCCcore-7.3.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/d/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-0.110-GCCcore-7.3.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0314e8dc7f90
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/d/dbus-glib/dbus-glib-0.110-GCCcore-7.3.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'dbus-glib'
+version = '0.110'
+
+homepage = 'http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-glib'
+description = """D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '7.3.0'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['7ce4760cf66c69148f6bd6c92feaabb8812dee30846b24cd0f7395c436d7e825']
+
+builddependencies = [('binutils', '2.30')]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('GLib', '2.54.3'),
+    ('DBus', '1.13.6'),
+    ('expat', '2.2.5'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/dbus-binding-tool', 'lib/libdbus-glib-1.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libdbus-glib-1.a'],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'share']
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/FreeXL/FreeXL-1.0.5-GCCcore-7.3.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/FreeXL/FreeXL-1.0.5-GCCcore-7.3.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4713eaff800b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/f/FreeXL/FreeXL-1.0.5-GCCcore-7.3.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'FreeXL'
+version = '1.0.5'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/freexl/index'
+
+description = """
+ FreeXL is an open source library to extract valid data from within an
+ Excel (.xls) spreadsheet.
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '7.3.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/freexl-sources/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['3dc9b150d218b0e280a3d6a41d93c1e45f4d7155829d75f1e5bf3e0b0de6750d']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.30'),
+    ('CMake', '3.12.1'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libfreexl.a'],
+    'dirs': []
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GConf/GConf-3.2.6-foss-2018b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GConf/GConf-3.2.6-foss-2018b.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e4ab476be137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GConf/GConf-3.2.6-foss-2018b.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'GConf'
+version = '3.2.6'
+
+homepage = 'https://projects.gnome.org/gconf/'
+description = """GConf is a system for storing application preferences.
+ It is intended for user preferences; not configuration
+ of something like Apache, or arbitrary data storage."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018b'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/GConf/%(version_major_minor)s/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_XZ]
+checksums = ['1912b91803ab09a5eed34d364bf09fe3a2a9c96751fde03a4e0cfa51a04d784c']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('dbus-glib', '0.110'),
+    ('GLib', '2.54.3'),
+    ('GObject-Introspection', '1.54.1', '-Python-2.7.15'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.8'),
+    ('GTK+', '2.24.32'),
+    ('intltool', '0.51.0', '-Perl-5.28.0'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--disable-orbit '
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/gconf%s' % x for x in['-merge-tree', 'tool-2']] +
+             ['bin/gsettings-%s-convert' % x for x in ['data', 'schema']] +
+             ['lib/libgconf-2.%s' % x for x in['a', 'so']],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'share']
+}
+
+modextrapaths = {
+    'GI_TYPELIB_PATH': 'share',
+    'XDG_DATA_DIRS': 'share',
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GRASS/GRASS-7.6.0-foss-2018b-Python-2.7.15.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GRASS/GRASS-7.6.0-foss-2018b-Python-2.7.15.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6cb57dbfaf07
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GRASS/GRASS-7.6.0-foss-2018b-Python-2.7.15.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'GRASS'
+version = '7.6.0'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s'
+
+homepage = "http://grass.osgeo.org"
+description = """The Geographic Resources Analysis Support System - used
+ for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing,
+ graphics and maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018b'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://grass.osgeo.org/grass%s/source' % ''.join(version.split('.')[:2])]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+patches = ['%(name)s-%(version)s_GCC_ldlibs.patch']
+checksums = [
+    '07628f83ad59ba6d9d097cdc91c490efaf5b1d57bc7ee1fc2709183162741b6a',  # grass-7.6.0.tar.gz
+    '1927578fc81cb8f9d930874b0fd3453f446720b50eb95b9bd1fb2c940ca02e6e',  # GRASS-7.6.0_GCC_ldlibs.patch
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('flex', '2.6.4'),
+    ('Bison', '3.0.4'),
+    ('Autotools', '20180311'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.6'),
+    ('gettext', '0.19.8.1'),
+    ('Python', '2.7.15'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.8'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.34'),
+    ('libreadline', '7.0'),
+    ('ncurses', '6.1'),
+    ('netCDF', '4.6.1'),
+    ('GDAL', '2.2.3', versionsuffix),
+    ('libspatialite', '4.3.0a'),
+    ('GEOS', '3.6.2', versionsuffix),
+    ('PROJ', '5.0.0'),
+    ('SQLite', '3.24.0'),
+    ('freetype', '2.9.1'),
+    ('FFmpeg', '4.1'),
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.0.9'),
+    ('cairo', '1.14.12'),
+    ('X11', '20180604'),
+    ('Mesa', '18.1.1'),
+    ('libGLU', '9.0.0'),
+    ('wxPython', '3.0.2.0', versionsuffix),
+]
+
+preconfigopts = "sed -e 's/-lblas/\$LIBBLAS/g' -e 's/-llapack/\$LIBLAPACK/g' -i configure &&"
+configopts = '--enable-64bit '
+configopts += '--enable-largefile=yes '
+configopts += '--with-cairo=yes '
+configopts += '--with-cxx '
+configopts += '--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-libs=$EBROOTFFMPEG/lib --with-ffmpeg-includes=$EBROOTFFMPEG/include/* '
+configopts += '--with-fftw --with-fftw-libs=$EBROOTFFTW/lib --with-fftw-includes=$EBROOTFFTW/include '
+configopts += '--with-freetype '
+configopts += '--with-freetype-libs=$EBROOTFREETYPE/lib --with-freetype-includes=$EBROOTFREETYPE/include '
+configopts += '--with-geos=$EBROOTGEOS/bin/geos-config '
+configopts += '--without-glw '
+configopts += '--with-lapack '
+configopts += '--with-lapack-lib=$LAPACK_LIB_DIR '
+configopts += '--with-lapack-includes=$LAPACK_INC_DIR '
+configopts += '--with-blas '
+configopts += '--with-blas-lib=$BLAS_LIB_DIR '
+configopts += '--with-blas-includes=$BLAS_INC_DIR '
+configopts += '--with-netcdf=$EBROOTNETCDF/bin/nc-config '
+configopts += '--without-odbc '
+configopts += '--with-opengl '
+configopts += '--with-openmp '
+configopts += '--with-png '
+configopts += '--with-png-libs="$EBROOTLIBPNG/lib $EBROOTZLIB/lib" --with-png-includes=$EBROOTLIBPNG/include '
+configopts += '--without-postgres '
+configopts += '--with-proj --with-proj-libs=$EBROOTPROJ/lib '
+configopts += '--with-proj-includes=$EBROOTPROJ/include --with-proj-share=$EBROOTPROJ/share/proj '
+configopts += '--with-pthread '
+configopts += '--with-python '
+configopts += '--with-readline '
+configopts += '--with-readline-libs=$EBROOTLIBREADLINE/lib --with-readline-includes=$EBROOTLIBREADLINE/include '
+configopts += '--with-spatialite '
+configopts += '--with-sqlite '
+configopts += '--with-tiff-libs=$EBROOTLIBTIFF/lib --with-tiff-includes=$EBROOTLIBTIFF/include '
+configopts += '--with-wxwidgets=$EBROOTWXPYTHON/bin/wx-config '
+configopts += '--with-x '
+configopts += '--with-zlib --with-zlib-libs=$EBROOTZLIB/lib --with-zlib-includes=$EBROOTZLIB/include '
+configopts += '--with-bzlib --with-bzlib-libs=$EBROOTBZIP2/lib --with-ibzlib-includes=$EBROOTBZIP2/include '
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ["."]
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'geo'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GRASS/GRASS-7.6.0_GCC_ldlibs.patch b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GRASS/GRASS-7.6.0_GCC_ldlibs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..68c9e1dc3a99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GRASS/GRASS-7.6.0_GCC_ldlibs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Use mathlib and threads in the LDFALGS
+# January 24th 2019 by B. Hajgato (Free University Brussels - VUB)
+--- configure.orig	2018-06-06 23:28:35.000000000 +0200
++++ configure	2019-01-24 14:27:36.985828861 +0100
+@@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@
+             SHLIB_LD_FLAGS="-Wl,-soname,\$(notdir \$@)"
+ 	    SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"
+ 	    SHLIB_LD="${CC} -shared"
+-            LDFLAGS="-Wl,--export-dynamic"
++            LDFLAGS="-pthread -lm -Wl,--export-dynamic"
+             LD_SEARCH_FLAGS='-Wl,-rpath-link,${LIB_RUNTIME_DIR}'
+             LD_LIBRARY_PATH_VAR="LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+             ;;
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GST-plugins-base/GST-plugins-base-0.10.36-foss-2018b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GST-plugins-base/GST-plugins-base-0.10.36-foss-2018b.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d3a8d057e59a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GST-plugins-base/GST-plugins-base-0.10.36-foss-2018b.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'GST-plugins-base'
+version = '0.10.36'
+
+homepage = 'http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/'
+description = """GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling
+ components. The applications it supports range from simple
+ Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio
+ (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018b'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+checksums = ['1fe45c3894903001d4d008b0713dab089f53726dcb5842d5b40c2595a984e64a']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('GStreamer', '0.10.36'),
+]
+
+# does not work with Bison 3.x
+builddependencies = [
+    ('Bison', '2.7', '', True),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/gst-%s-%%(version_major_minor)s' % x for x in ['discoverer', 'visualise']] +
+             ['lib/libgst%s-%%(version_major_minor)s.%s' % (x, SHLIB_EXT) for x in ['app', 'audio', 'video']],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'share']
+}
+
+modextrapaths = {
+    'GI_TYPELIB_PATH': 'share',
+    'XDG_DATA_DIRS': 'share',
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GStreamer/GStreamer-0.10.36-foss-2018b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GStreamer/GStreamer-0.10.36-foss-2018b.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8be833db619c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/g/GStreamer/GStreamer-0.10.36-foss-2018b.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'GStreamer'
+version = '0.10.36'
+
+homepage = 'http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/'
+description = """GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling
+ components. The applications it supports range from simple
+ Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio
+ (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018b'}
+
+source_urls = ['http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gstreamer']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_XZ]
+checksums = ['9151aa108c177054387885763fa0e433e76780f7c5655c70a5390f2a6c6871da']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('GLib', '2.54.3'),
+    ('GObject-Introspection', '1.54.1', '-Python-2.7.15'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+]
+
+# does not work with Bison 3.x
+builddependencies = [
+    ('flex', '2.6.4', '', True),
+    ('Bison', '2.7', '', True),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/gst-%s-%%(version_major_minor)s' % x for x in ['inspect', 'typefind', 'launch']] +
+             ['lib/libgst%s-%%(version_major_minor)s.%s' % (x, SHLIB_EXT) for x in ['reamer', 'base',
+                                                                                    'controller', 'check']],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'share', 'libexec'],
+}
+
+modextrapaths = {
+    'GI_TYPELIB_PATH': 'share',
+    'XDG_DATA_DIRS': 'share',
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libspatialite/libspatialite-4.3.0a-foss-2018b.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libspatialite/libspatialite-4.3.0a-foss-2018b.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b064d53a1ba5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libspatialite/libspatialite-4.3.0a-foss-2018b.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libspatialite'
+version = '4.3.0a'
+
+homepage = "https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/home"
+description = """SpatiaLite is an open source library intended to extend the SQLite core to support
+ fully fledged Spatial SQL capabilities."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018b'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['http://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['88900030a4762904a7880273f292e5e8ca6b15b7c6c3fb88ffa9e67ee8a5a499']
+
+builddependencies = [('CMake', '3.12.1')]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('FreeXL', '1.0.5'),
+    ('GEOS', '3.6.2', '-Python-2.7.15'),
+    ('SQLite', '3.24.0'),
+    ('PROJ', '5.0.0'),
+    ('libxml2', '2.9.8'),
+]
+
+configopts = '--disable-geosadvanced'
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['include/spatialite.h', 'lib/libspatialite.a', 'lib/libspatialite.%s' % SHLIB_EXT],
+    'dirs': ['include/spatialite'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/w/wxPython/wxPython-3.0.2.0-foss-2018b-Python-2.7.15.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/w/wxPython/wxPython-3.0.2.0-foss-2018b-Python-2.7.15.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d4cfe66b9a65
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/w/wxPython/wxPython-3.0.2.0-foss-2018b-Python-2.7.15.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+name = 'wxPython'
+version = '3.0.2.0'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.wxpython.org'
+description = """wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language.
+ It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust,
+ highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily.
+ It is implemented as a Python extension module (native code)
+ that wraps the popular wxWidgets cross platform GUI library,
+ which is written in C++."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018b'}
+
+source_urls = [SOURCEFORGE_SOURCE]
+sources = ['%(name)s-src-%(version)s.tar.bz2']
+patches = ['wxPython-%(version)s_fix-abs-overload.patch']
+checksums = [
+    'd54129e5fbea4fb8091c87b2980760b72c22a386cb3b9dd2eebc928ef5e8df61',  # wxPython-src-3.0.2.0.tar.bz2
+    '7bc2d671af6cd79930275c9e59c42a7c79ee6d66329190ac13df690f5def4d94',  # wxPython-3.0.2.0_fix-abs-overload.patch
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.15'),
+    ('libpng', '1.6.34'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+    ('libjpeg-turbo', '2.0.0'),
+    ('LibTIFF', '4.0.9'),
+    ('expat', '2.2.5'),
+    ('GTK+', '2.24.32'),
+    ('GConf', '3.2.6'),
+    ('GST-plugins-base', '0.10.36'),
+    ('Mesa', '18.1.1'),
+    ('libGLU', '9.0.0'),
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'vis'