[GRASS-user] Building wxgrass vdigit

[Glynn Clements]

Craig Leat wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer, but unfortunately I'm still having trouble. I 
> first tried to add vdigit to an existing installation of RC3 without 
> success. I then downloaded, configured and built trunk and the build 
> completed without reporting any errors. I noticed that vdigit was not 
> built along with the other modules, although a 
> /grass-trunk/gui/wxpython/vdigit/Makefile was generated. This concerns 
> me. Can anyone explain what's happening here?
> 
> Anyway, I then proceeded to try building vdigit after performing steps 
> 1.1, 1.2 and 7.1 described in the wxpython README. The build failed with 
> errors as below:
> 
> GRASS 6.3.svn 
> (msunduzi_lo31):/usr/local/src/grass_trunk_28012008/gui/wxpython > cd $GISBASE/etc/wx/vdigit

> GRASS 6.3.svn (msunduzi_lo31):/usr/local/grass-6.3SVN/etc/wx/vdigit > make

> grass6_wxvdigit_wrap.cxx:2577:23: error: grass/gis.h: No such file or directory

You need to do at least "make -C lib headers" before trying to build
anything else. Also, I suspect that it will expect to find the GRASS
libraries in the build tree (in dist.<arch>/lib), so you will probably
need at least "make -C lib".

Personally, I would recommend just building the whole of GRASS, by
running "make" from the top-level directory. Building individual
components requires some knowledge of which parts depend upon which
other parts, and acquiring this knowledge is likely to take somewhat
longer than just building everything.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>