REQUIREMENTS to compile GRASS GIS 6

A workstation running some flavor of UNIX like Solaris, IRIX, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X or cygwin (on Win32). Ideally, you should have at least 500 Mb for data and 32 Mb RAM. The source code package needs around 50 MB uncompressed. The resulting binaries may need between 20 MB and 180 MB depending on your platform. During a full compilation you may need temporarily up to 550MB including the source code.

To disable features please read the INSTALL file.

General requirements:

(most tools are standard tools on Linux, for other platforms you may have to install some of them.)

C-compiler (cc, gcc, egcs, ...)

http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html

GNU make is recommended

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html

zlib compression library (already installed on most modern systems)

http://www.gzip.org/zlib

flex lexical analyzer generator (flex),

http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html

parser generator (yacc, bison)

http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html

libncurses4.x/5.x (already installed on modern systems)

http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses

X11 window system for graphical output, development libraries (X development libraries, in some linux distributions they are separate packages, e.g. xlibs-dev)

http://www.xfree.org

winGRASS: As alternative a generic MS-Windows driver is under construction which does not require X11

PROJ4 - Projection Library
http://www.remotesensing.org/proj

Optional requirements:

Tcl/Tk 8.x libraries (including the 'wish' program) to use the GRASS GUI menu system and the NVIZ visualization suite
On some platforms (e.g. Debain/Sarge) GRASS needs to be compiled against the Tcl/Tk 8.3 development packages in order to get NVIZ working correctly.
see http://tcl.sourceforge.net
GDAL and OGR for import and export of most external raster and vector map formats
http://www.gdal.org
If hardware openGL support is missing in the X Server, Mesa-3.x (openGL clone) may be required for NVIZ
http://mesa3d.sourceforge.net
C++ Compiler (required for the r.terraflow module)
gcc: http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html
FFTW 2.x (library for computing the Discrete Fourier Transform), required for i.fft and i.ifft modules
http://www.fftw.org
libpng (for r.out.png and the PNG driver), usually already installed.
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
libjpeg (for r.out.tiff), usually already installed.
http://www.ijg.org
ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg
libtiff (for r.out.tiff), usually already installed.
http://www.libtiff.org
PostgreSQL libraries (for the PostgreSQL database interface)
http://www.postgresql.org
mySQL libraries (for the mySQL database interface)
http://www.mysql.org
unixODBC (for the ODBC database interface)
http://www.unixodbc.org
Motif or Lesstif libraries (for the "xanim" module)
http://www.lesstif.org
R language (for the R statistical language interface)
http://cran.r-project.org
FreeType2 (for TrueType font support and d.text.freetype)
http://www.freetype.org

Note:

SUN Solaris users may go here to download precompiled libraries etc.:
http://www.sunfreeware.com

SGI IRIX users may go here to download precompiled libraries etc.:
http://freeware.sgi.com

MacOSX users may go here to download precompiled libraries etc.:
http://fink.sourceforge.net

Please report bugs here:
http://grass.itc.it/bugtracking/bugreport.html

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