[GRASS-dev] winGRASS Self Installer Package

[Paul Kelly]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> First of all, I want to express my thanks on behalf of students here
>> who are using GRASS on Windows [...]
>
> you're welcome... did you already read my new GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide?
> http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html <http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html>
> I'm updating it with packaging instructions
> when I'll have enough free time I'll put it into GRASS trac
>
>> My suggestion is that you include SQLite but not PostgreSQL.[...]
>
> Do you think that libsqlite3-0.dll is enough? in my (built) sqlite directory I have /bin with 1 dll and 1 exe, /include with only includes and /lib dir with static libs.

If you've compiled GRASS against the .dll then you don't need the static 
libraries. If you've compiled GRASS against the static libraries then you 
don't need to include anything - the required libraries will be statically 
linked into the GRASS modules (you can usually tell this if the size of 
the binaries is very large. I usually delete the static libraries after 
compiling to make sure they are not picked up by accident). You certainly 
don't need to include the header files in include/ for a binary 
distribution - they are only necessary for compiling. If there are some 
useful utility programs in bin/ they may be worth sticking into the GRASS 
bin directory too, e.g. gdalwarp.exe and gdalinfo.exe from GDAL and 
cs2cs.exe and nad2bin.exe from PROJ.

For a lot of packages though you just need the DLL and can stick it 
straight into the GRASS $GISBASE/lib directory before packaging up the 
binary distribution.

Paul