An overview of the dependencies required for building

We use a simplified approach with pre-built libraries for all the GRASS dependencies.

Install the environment for compilation (MingW)

MSYS supplies many utilities from UNIX world in Windows:

1. Download the MSYS installer from ​here: -> MSYS Base System (currently MSYS-1.0.11) -> MSYS-1.0.xx-yyyymmdd-dll.tar.gz (i386)

Install to c:\msys At the command prompt question for post install, type n and then enter.

2. Download the MSYS coreutils package from ​here: -> MSYS Base System (currently MSYS-1.0.11) -> coreutils-5.97-MSYS-1.0.xx-snapshot-src.tar.bz2 (i386)

Unpack it to a temporary folder, then copy all the content of the coreutils-5.97 folder to c:\msys (overwrite the existing files when asked)

3. Download the MinGW installer from ​here: -> Automated MinGW Installer -> MinGW 5.x.y (currently MinGW 5.1.4)

Select "Download and Install Current Version"; Install only "g++ compiler" and "MinGW Make"; Install to c:\msys\mingw

4. Download and install Python from ​here: use their Windows installer to install it on your system (doesn't matter where).

5. Get wxPython

... ? package from OSGeo4W?

Compiling and Installing PROJ4

• Source Code: ​http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.6.1.tar.gz (Unpack to c:\msys\local\src\)
• Datum shift grids: ​http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-datumgrid-1.4.zip (Unpack to c:\msys\local\src\proj-4.6.0\nad\)

... ? TBD

Compiling and Installing GDAL

...? TBD

Compiling and Installing GRASS (6.4.0)

Download the GRASS source code from ​here.

Unpack to c:\msys\local\src

In MSYS console, type:

cd /usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-includes=/usr/local/include \
--with-libs=/usr/local/lib \
--disable-x11 \
--without-x \
--with-cxx \
--enable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-opengl=windows \
--with-fftw \
--with-freetype \
--with-proj-share=/usr/local/share/proj \
--with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-tcltk --with-tcltk-includes=/usr/local/tcl-tk/include --with-tcltk-libs=/usr/local/tcl-tk/bin \
--with-sqlite --with-sqlite-includes=/usr/local/sqlite/include --with-sqlite-libs=/usr/local/sqlite/lib \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/local/pgsql/include --with-postgres-libs=/usr/local/pgsql/lib

When finished, you should have the following screen output:

GRASS is now configured for:  i686-pc-mingw32

 Source directory:            /usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0
 Build directory:             /usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0
 Installation directory:      ${prefix}/grass-6.4.0
 Startup script in directory: ${exec_prefix}/bin
 C compiler:                  gcc -g -O2 
 C++ compiler:                c++ -g -O2
 Building shared libraries:   yes
 64bit support:               no
 OpenGL platform:             Windows

  NVIZ:                       yes

  BLAS support:               no
  C++ support:                yes
  DWG support:                no
  FFMPEG support:             no
  FFTW support:               yes
  FreeType support:           yes
  GDAL support:               yes
  GLw support:                no
  JPEG support:               yes
  LAPACK support:             no
  Large File Support (LFS):   yes
  Motif support:              no
  MySQL support:              no
  NLS support:                no
  ODBC support:               no
  OGR support:                yes
  OpenGL support:             yes
  PNG support:                yes
  PostgreSQL support:         yes
  Python support:             no
  Readline support:           no
  SQLite support:             yes
  Tcl/Tk support:             yes
  wxWidgets support:          no
  TIFF support:               yes
  X11 support:                no
  MacOSX application:         no

Having GRASS successfully configured, now you can compile it:

export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/tcl-tk/bin:/usr/local/sqlite/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/lib:$PATH"
make

When finished, you should have the following compilation log:

GRASS GIS compilation log
-------------------------
Started compilation: Mon Feb 16 10:11:17 GMT 2009
--
Errors in:
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.daemon
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.edgedensity
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.patchdensity
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.patchnum
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.shape
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.simpson
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.shannon
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.mps
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.mpa
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.padcv
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.padsd
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.padrange
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.cwed
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.richness
/usr/local/src/grass-6.4.0/raster/r.li/r.li.dominance
--
In case of errors please change into the directory with error and run 'make'.
If you get multiple errors, you need to deal with them in the order they
appear in the error log. If you get an error building a library, you will
also get errors from anything which uses the library.
--
Finished compilation: Mon Feb 16 10:11:17 GMT 2009
make: *** [default] Error 1

The best way to check it, is to open c:\msys\local\src\grass-6.4.0\error.log using your favourite web client.

Then install GRASS:

make install

Now GRASS should be installed in c:\msys\local\grass-6.4.0\

The startup grass64.bat file should be in c:\msys\local\bin\grass64.bat

See also: grass64/mswindows/osgeo4w/package.sh for a scripted approach in the OSGeo4W environment.

TODO

Describe installations of:

• GDAL-GRASS-plugin
• SQLite
• PostgreSQL
• Freetype ?
• FFTW