[GRASS-dev] winGRASS Self Installer Package

[Benjamin Ducke]

I remember dimly that we discussed these things before, a few
weeks back when I was trying to put together a new WinGRASS
distribution. I think that Glynn posted a list of useful tools for 
inclusion to this mailing list, back then.

There are other useful things, such as wget, curl, tar, unzip, awk,
sed, ...
Some of them may be needed by shell scripts.

Maybe it would be a good idea to put up a Wikipage and start
adding these things to it?

Benjamin

Paul Kelly wrote:
> 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
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