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Compile and Install

2016-11-29T21:06:59Z

⚠️Plantarum: /* GRASS 7 on Debian Stretch */ -- updated dependencies

'''Disclaimer''': This page explains how to turn the GRASS GIS source code into an installable binary package ("compilation") for different operating systems. If you just want to get ready-to-use binaries, go [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/ here], otherwise read on...

== How to do compilation and installation of GRASS GIS? ==

Here we explain the procedure to compile GRASS from SVN, but it also applies to official GRASS 6 releases.

''For installation of precompiled binary packages, see the main [[Installation Guide]].''

For detailed information on compilation, please see the [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/INSTALL INSTALL] file in the source code.

=== Prerequisites ===

==== Extra libraries ====
GRASS needs at least two extra libraries: PROJ and GDAL/OGR

''Note: if you want to have DBMS support in GDAL (subsequently in GRASS) you have to perform the "Optional" steps below as well.''

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4] for management of projections (with proj-datumgrid-1.3.zip support)
* Optional: [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ GEOS]
* Optional: [http://www.postgresql.org PostgreSQL], [http://www.mysql.org mySQL], [http://www.unixodbc.org unixODBC], [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite] (SQLite is needed for [[QGIS]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR] for reading and writing various GIS data formats (interoperability)

You have to install these two libraries '''first''' (see below how to get them precompiled for your system).

It is easiest to obtain a prepackaged version of these libraries (e.g., .rpm; .deb) for your particular operating system and run the corresponding package installation (e.g., rpm -Uhv packagename.rpm; apt-get) in a terminal window. Take care to also install the development packages of these libraries (...-devel packages). If there is no prepackage version, then you will have to download the source code (see links above, source code packages usually ends in .tar.gz or .zip) and compile it (you must have a C compiler installed as part of your operating system). The Web sites show the steps to compile the libraries.

Other libraries needed to run GRASS are listed on the {{website|grass64/source/REQUIREMENTS.html|requirements page}}.

To compile, you will also need the respective "-devel" packages.

==== Download GRASS GIS source code ====
Then [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ download the GRASS GIS source code] of course.

=== Generic Compilation and installation procedure ===

* It is wise that compilation processes are carried out as a normal user: If you want to get the source code in a place where you do not have write permissions (e.g. in /usr/local/src/) just follow this:
cd /usr/local/src/
su -c 'mkdir grass6'
su -c 'chown yourlogin:yourgroup grass6'

Otherwise if you have permissions just continue as a normal user:
cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout ...

* do a code checkout from the SVN source code repository
: checkout the latest GRASS 6.x from SVN (see: {{twiki|DownloadSource}})

* in the grass6 directory, you will find the precious INSTALL file, open it with your favourite pager/editor and read it carefully!

* run configure with parameters to adapt the compile process to your own system. To see what options can be passed to it, run:
./configure --help | less


It may (!) look like this:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/include/pgsql/libpq \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj

You may have to explicitly state the path for certain packages (i.e., gdal). The Unix 'locate' command will come in handy for finding the path of the package you need (you may have to run locate as root ex: sudo locate gdal-config).

Please note that the paths mentioned may widely vary due to the distribution used.
See [[Compile_and_Install#Platform_Specific_Notes|Platform Specific Notes]] below.

Depending on your needs it may be a good idea to include debugging hooks.
: See [[GRASS_Debugging#Compile_Time_Setup]].
CFLAGS="-ggdb -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" ./configure ...

At the end of configuration process you should get report not much different from this:

GRASS is now configured for: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Source directory: /usr/src/grass6
Build directory: /usr/src/grass6
Installation directory: /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn
Startup script in directory: ${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -O2
C++ compiler: c++ -g -O2
FORTRAN compiler:
Building shared libraries: yes
64bit support: no

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
LAPACK support: no
Large File Support (LFS): no
Motif support: no
MySQL support: no
NLS support: no
ODBC support: no
OGR support: yes
OpenGL(R) support: yes
PNG support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: no
SQLite support: no
Tcl/Tk support: yes
TIFF support: yes
X11 support: yes

* Let's compile it (takes a little while...)!
make
* At the end, you should get report not much different from this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Following modules are missing the 'description.html' file in src code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GRASS GIS compilation log
-------------------------
Started compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:18:43 CEST 2006
--
Errors in:
--
Finished compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:43:40 CEST 2006
(In case of errors please change into the directory with error and run 'make')

* If there is any error, change directory to directory with error and run "make" again. Report occuring bug to grass mailing list
* Once the installation process is finished, you're ready to install GRASS system wide.
su -c 'make install'
* enjoy GRASS:
grass64

=== What else? ===

If you want to use [http://www.qgis.org QGIS], then also compile the GRASS-GDAL/OGR plugin. This is also useful to access your GRASS-data
from other application using GDAL/OGR like [http://thuban.intevation.de thuban].
* [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]] (enables QGIS to read GRASS data directly)

=== Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin ===

* See [[Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin]]

=== Platform Specific Notes ===

==== Linux ====

Linux cames in various flavours, i.e. distributions.

===== Debian =====

Read the instructions here:
: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/debian/README.debian

# first install PROJ, GDAL, etc.
cd grass64/
# follow instructions in debian/README.debian
fakeroot buildpackage

* Official [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis DebianGIS] packaging control files:

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http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/trunk/

or

svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/branches/<GRASS Version>
</strike>

Available on git server:
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/grass.git

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/grass.git/

====== GRASS 6.1 on Debian Sarge ======

* [http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/debiangisfiles#compile Compiling GRASS 6.1-CVS on Debian/OldStable (aka 3.1, Sarge)]

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Lenny ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev lesstif2-dev debhelper dpatch libtiff4-dev \
tcl-dev tk-dev libfftw3-dev libxmu-dev libfreetype6-dev autoconf2.13 autotools-dev doxygen \
libmysqlclient15-dev graphviz libsqlite3-dev python-wxgtk2.8 libcairo2-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev \
python-dev libgdal1-dev libgdal1-1.5.0 libproj-dev libproj0 proj-bin proj-data mysql

# Important: avoid using CFLAGS="... -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" (also on later Debian versions), see {{trac|1684}}

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.4/ \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif --with-fftw --with-nls --with-python \
--with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev tcl-dev tk-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin proj-data python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libatlas-dev libgegl-dev doxygen postgresql mysql-server \
libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev libgeotiff-epsg libxmu-dev libxt-dev libx11-dev

# Important: avoid using CFLAGS="... -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" (also on later Debian versions), see {{trac|1684}}

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-geos \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.6/ \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-fftw \
--with-nls \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-python \
--with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Squeeze ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev python-dev \
g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff4-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin proj-data python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev

Download source code:

svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass_trunk

Configure:

cd grass_trunk/
CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-Wall" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--without-tcltk \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite \
--with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.6-config --with-wxwidgets \
--with-geos --with-pthread

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass71

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Wheezy ======

Install needed packages:

# note: cmake and libboost-all-dev only needed for optional libLAS
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev

sudo apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev libncurses5-dev libproj-dev \
libreadline-dev libtiff4-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers \
libxt-dev mesa-common-dev proj-bin proj-data python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common \
zlib1g-dev netcdf-bin libatlas-dev libgegl-dev opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 \
libsqlite3-dev postgresql python-sphinx python-gdal

Download and Install libLAS
wget http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.7.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libLAS-1.7.0.tar.gz
cd libLAS-1.7.0/
mkdir makefiles
cd makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ../..

Download of GRASS GIS 7 source code:
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grass-7.0.0.tar.gz

Configure:
cd grass-7.0.0
CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos --with-blas \
--with-lapack-includes=/usr/lib/lapack --with-liblas=yes \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=yes --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql

# --with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
# --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \

GRASS GIS 7 is now configured (example):

Source directory: /home/user/grass-7.0.0
Build directory: /home/user/grass-7.0.0
Installation directory: ${prefix}/grass-7.0.0
Startup script in directory:${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused
C++ compiler: c++ -g -Wall
Building shared libraries: yes
OpenGL platform: X11
MacOSX application: no
MacOSX architectures:
MacOSX SDK:
BLAS support: yes
C++ support: yes
Cairo support: yes
DWG support: no
FFTW support: yes
FreeType support: yes
GDAL support: yes
GEOS support: yes
LAPACK support: no
Large File support (LFS): yes
libLAS support: yes
MySQL support: no
NetCDF support: yes
NLS support: yes
ODBC support: yes
OGR support: yes
OpenCL support: no
OpenGL support: yes
OpenMP support: yes
PNG support: yes
POSIX thread support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: yes
Regex support: yes
SQLite support: yes
TIFF support: yes
wxWidgets support: yes
X11 support: no

Compile:
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

Launch:
grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 \
autotools-dev python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin proj-data python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libgegl-dev doxygen python-sphinx \
postgresql libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev mysql-server \
libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack3gf liblapack-dev
# opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 liblas-bin liblas-c-dev python-gdal

Download and compile libLAS (or simply install 'liblas-c-dev ', see above):
wget http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.8.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf libLAS-1.8.0.tar.bz2
mkdir libLAS-1.8.0/makefiles
cd libLAS-1.8.0/makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
sudo make install

Download and compile GRASS 7:
# (check there for later version)
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
tar xzfv grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
cd grass-7.0.0
CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=no --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Stretch ======
(Updated from above with package changes required for Debian Stretch)

Install needed packages (Updated 29 November 2016 to switch libgdal1i, libgdal1-dev to libgdal20 and libgdal-dev):
apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev libgdal20 \
libgdal-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev \
libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin proj-data python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev netcdf-bin \
libnetcdf-dev libgegl-dev doxygen python-sphinx postgresql libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev \
mysql-server libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack3 liblapack-dev opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 \
liblas-bin liblas-c-dev python-gdal

Configuration:

CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=no --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql

Compile:

make -j2

Install:

make install

===== Ubuntu =====

There is a dedicated page on how to [[Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu | Compile the GRASS GIS source code & install it in Ubuntu]].

===== Linux Mint =====

The [[Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu | detailed compilation guide for Ubuntu]] may just work. Here is a short guide for Mint:
<pre>
sudo apt-get install build-essential flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ \
cmake ccache python python-dev python-qt4 python-qt4-dev python-opengl \
python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk2.8 python-dateutil \
libgsl0-dev python-numpy wx3.0-headers wx-common libwxgtk3.0-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dbg libwxbase3.0-dev libwxbase3.0-dbg \
zlib1g-dev gettext libtiff-dev libpnglite-dev \
libcairo2 libcairo2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline6 \
libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev txt2tags libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
lsb-desktop libapt-pkg-perl resolvconf libjasper-dev subversion \
libswscale-dev checkinstall libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin proj-data gdal-bin python-gdal libgdal1-dev

# GRASS GIS 6 only: libncurses5-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev
# Extra: ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora libffmpegthumbnailer-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev

CFLAGS="-Wall" ./configure --with-cxx --with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos --without-postgres \
--with-nls --with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL/ \
--with-fftw --with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 --with-sqlite \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config --with-wx=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-cairo --enable-largefile

# G6: --with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.5/ \

make

sudo make install
</pre>

===== Mandriva =====

Installation of dependencies (urpmi will ask you a few more):

'''Mandriva 2009:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit)
# as root
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
mesagl1-devel mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

'''Mandriva 2010:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit) - see also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/current/SPECS/ SPEC] file
# as root
# installation of PROJ and GDAL
urpmi proj proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gcc-gfortran lib64openssl1.0.0 \
lib64openssl1.0.0-devel postgresql8.4-devel lib64pq8.4

# installation of compilation environment
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
lib64mesagl1-devel lib64mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

Then, to configure GRASS, run (64 bit stuff optional of course):
# as user
./configure \
--enable-64bit --with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-python \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/lib/wxPython/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/libav* /usr/include/libpostproc /usr/include/libswscale" \
--with-motif \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile

# compilation (use -j2 ior -j4 parameter on multi-core CPUs to accelerate):
make

Installation:
su
# this will install into /usr/local/
make install
exit

===== Enterprise Linux =====

Enterprise Linux (EL) and derivatives (that is, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Scientific Linux) is a popular and robust platform for servers and computing-heavy workstations, and is therefore a good fit for GIS specific requirements.

See: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

===== Scientific Linux =====

See Centos

===== CentOS =====

You first need to add the EPEL repository for PROJ.4 and GDAL, see [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F here]

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Preparation '''Centos 5''' (old):
yum install epel-release

# Note: CentOS 5 comes with Python 2.4 which lacks python-config, hence two extra tweaks are needed.
yum install flex bison zlib-devel tcl-devel tk-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
libtiff-devel libpng-devel sqlite-devel \
mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-libGLw-devel \
mesa-libOSMesa-devel libXmu-devel python-devel gtk2-devel\
ncurses-devel postgresql-devel make
</strike>

Preparation '''Centos 6''' | '''Scientific Linux 6''':
yum install epel-release

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib
# only GRASS GIS 6: install also tcl-devel tk-devel

Preparation '''Centos 7''' | '''Scientific Linux 7''':
yum install epel-release

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
netcdf netcdf-devel blas-devel lapack-devel atlas-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib python-sphinx \
doxygen subversion

'''GRASS GIS 7 compilation and installation'''

[http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ Download source code] (e.g., --> "Download latest 7.0-svn code (SVN))" and configure GRASS 7 (suggestion: save this as script):

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-python \
--with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-openmp \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-fftw \
--with-geos \
--with-netcdf \
--without-ffmpeg \
--without-mysql \
--without-postgres \
--without-odbc \
--without-fftw

Compile:
make
or on a multicore system (number depends of available cores):
make -j4

For a system wide installation, run as root user:
make install
OR simply run it directly from the source code directory (substitute ARCH with i686 or x86_64):

bin.$ARCH/grass70 -gui

In this case, for convenience, add it to the search path:
mkdir $HOME/bin
cd $HOME/bin
# example:
ln -s $HOME/software/grass70_release/bin.i686-pc-linux-gnu/grass70 .

Now use it subsequently with
grass70 -gui

===== Gentoo =====

./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/"

See also http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-geosciences/grass

===== Funtoo =====

{{MovedToTrac|FuntooLinux}}

===== Fedora =====

====== GRASS GIS 6 on Fedora ======

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS 6 source code (F16-F21):

yum install proj-devel gdal-devel sqlite-devel ffmpeg-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel tcl-devel tk-devel geos \
fftw-devel libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 subversion

''Note 1: that currently gdal-devel has (too) many dependencies and may lead to a massive download of extra packages (200 on a fresh Fedora 16 install). Hopefully solved in later Fedora versions.''

''Note 2: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 6: [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ release package] - [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS6.4 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an ''example'' how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-geos \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc \
--with-fftw

Extra: If you also want '''FFMPEG''' support - it requires 'yum install fftw-devel'. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS 6 and enjoy!

====== GRASS GIS 7 on Fedora ======

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS 7 source code (F20-F22):

dnf install gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 \
proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gdal-python sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
fftw-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel geos geos-devel \
libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib-wx subversion doxygen python-sphinx

# optionally also: netcdf-devel postgresql-devel

''Note 1: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 7: [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS7 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an example how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-geos \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc

''Extra 1:'' If you also want '''FFMPEG support''' - it requires 'dnf install fftw-devel' from the rpmfusion-free repository. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

''Extra 2:'' For '''LAPACK/BLAS support''' (addons i.spec.unmix, v.kriging etc), install "dnf install lapack lapack-devel blas blas-devel atlas atlas-devel". Then add to the configuration lines above:
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS 7 and enjoy!

===== openSUSE =====

To build GRASS on openSUSE:

RPM packages to be installed:
<source lang="bash">
sudo zypper install bison flex freetype2-devel fftw3-devel gcc-c++ \
libgdal-devel libgeos-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel \
man proj libproj-devel readline-devel netcdf-devel ncurses-devel \
mysql-devel postgresql-devel sqlite-devel unixODBC-devel \
tcl-devel tk-devel xorg-x11-Mesa-devel libXmu-devel \
python-numpy python-dateutil python-devel python-opengl \
python-wxWidgets python-xml python-dateutil wxWidgets-devel \
zlib-devel doxygen python-sphinx
</source>

Source code configuration:
<source lang="bash">
./configure \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-cxx \
--with-lapack=yes \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-netcdf \
--with-curses \
--with-geos \
--with-nls \
--with-sqlite \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-odbc \
--with-python
</source>

Then compile with "make [-j2]".

===== Arch Linux =====

Up-to-date links to Arch Linux GRASS PKGBUILDs are on https://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/linux/.

But if you want to compile it yourself, you have to keep in mind that in Arch Linux the default Python version 3.

python --version

Python 3.3.1

Therefore, to build GRASS GIS (version 7 in this example), we can use either use virtualenv or symlink python2 and python2-config in a given directory.
Let's use the latter approach

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 $HOME/usr/bin/python
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2-config $HOME/usr/bin/python-config

We can now start building GRASS 7

export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH && \
./configure \
--enable-debug \
--enable-64bit \
--with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-readline \
--with-zlib-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-freetype=yes \
--with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--enable-largefile=yes \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-cairo \
--with-odbc \
--with-pthread \
--with-liblas=/usr/local/bin/liblas-config \
--with-fftw-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-fftw-libs=/usr/lib/ \
--with-tcltk-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql/internal" \
--with-postgres-libs="/usr/include/postgresql/internal/libpq" \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-python=yes \
--with-liblas \
--with-netcdf

Now let's compile and install it

make
sudo make install

Now the final step required to use GRASS with python2 is to create a bash script "grass" (or the name you want)

#!/bin/bash
export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH
python2 /usr/local/bin/grass70

And make it executable and copy it somewhere in the PATH

chmod+x grass
sudo cp grass /usr/local/bin

It's done, you can enjoy GRASS 7 in Arch, just type "grass" (or the name you gave to the script) in the terminal to launch it.

===== RPM SPEC files =====
* ... can be found in the source code, rpm/ directory,
* or [https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=grass&project=Application%3AGeo OpenSuSe]
* or [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/grass Fedora]
* or [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/ Mandriva] (there are also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/proj/ proj4], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/geos/ geos], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal/ gdal], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal-grass/ gdal-grass-plugin], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/qgis/ qgis] etc)
* ...

===== Zaurus =====

... see [http://wiki.debian.org/?GrassGISonZaurus here] for instructions

==== Mac OSX ====

===== Conventional installation =====
* see the source/macosx readme ([http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/macosx/ReadMe.rtf Trac link])
* main page [[Compiling on MacOSX]]
* main page [[Packaging on MacOSX]]
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/mac-osx/ official download site]
* [http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#build_scripts build scripts for dependencies]
* solving errors at starting GRASS GIS: [[MacOSX GRASS errors]]
=====Compiling on MacOSX using homebrew =====

* See [[Compiling on MacOSX using homebrew]]

==== FreeBSD / NetBSD ====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the respective package managing tools (pkg_add for FreeBSD and pkgin install for NetBSD) and for recent *BSD versions most likely installed by default.

GRASS 6.x and GRASS 7 should compile on FreeBSD 8.0 or later and NetBSD 5.0 or later (maybe also on updated NetBSD 4.x).

It is highly recommended to install GDAL/OGR and PROJ4 first. These libraries and tools are available as [http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ ports for FreeBSD] and [http://www.pkgsrc.org/ packages for NetBSD].

Optional functionality is listed with ''./configure --help'', and related libraries and tools might need to be installed first.

You then may need to edit include/Make/Platform.make and set
ICONVLIB = -liconv

==== Solaris ====

* ''2008 Oct 15'': see [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2008-October/047093.html this post on the grass mailing list]

===== 11 SPARC/i86pc =====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the Solaris package manager.

Most dependencies are available through the Solaris package manager. GDAL and proj4 can either be compiled from source or installed e.g. from [http://www.opencsw.org/ OpenCSW]. If packages are installed from OpenCSW, the linker flags need to be set with

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R/opt/csw/lib -L/opt/csw/lib -Wl,-R/opt/csw/gxx/lib -L/opt/csw/gxx/lib"

See also the [http://www.opencsw.org/use-it/ OpenCSW documentation].

===== 10 SPARC/i86pc =====

* get gcc compiler and tools. There are several sources: Solaris Companion CD (SFW pkg, installs in /opt/sfw/), Blastwave ([http://www.blastwave.org], CSW pkg, installs in /opt/csw/) or Sunfreeware ([http://www.sunfreeware.com], SMC pkg, installs in /usr/local/).
Needed Packages from Sunfreeware: SMCbinut, SMCbison, SMCcoreu, SMCfindu, SMCflex, SMCgawk, SMCgcc, SMCgrep, SMCgzip, SMCless, SMClibt, SMClicon, SMCmake, SMCncurs, SMCproj, SMCsed, SMCtar, SMCtcl, SMCtiff, SMCtk, SMCunzip, SMCzlib.

* compile and install fftw-library ([http://www.fftw.org]). You need to re-compile the library with:

./configure --with-pic --enable-shared; make ; make install.

The pre-built packages don't work.

* compile and install gdal library (see documentation of gdal, [http://www.gdal.org]).

* compile and install any additional libraries (e. g. GEOS, [http://geos.refractions.net]).

* set compiler flags and path. e. g.:

# on ultra-sparc machine:
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS PATH

Path has to be changed for the packages (Sunfreeware: /usr/local/bin, Solaris Companion: /opt/sfw/bin, Blastwave: /opt/csw/bin).

* Next configure, e. g.:

./configure --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql/ \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib --with-postgres=yes \
--with-includes=/usr/local/include/ncurses

If you use n(ew)curses, you have to include the path /usr/local/include/ncurses.

then:

make
su
make install

If the shared libraries are not found at runtime of the modules, use 'crle' to add the paths of the libraries for the dynamic linker, e. g. as root:

crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/X11/lib

Be careful not to omit a library path, the system may be unusable if you forget the /lib path.

==== AIX ====

A recent [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81) and GNU coreutils are required. These are available with the [http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/download.html IBM AIX toolbox] or through third-party AIX software repositories, e.g. [http://www.bullfreeware.com/ bullfreeware] and [http://www.perzl.org/aix/ perzl.org]. Note that 'make' does not work, only 'gmake' works.

General instructions to compile on AIX are e.g. [http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Instructions here]

On AIX, compilation results by default in 32 bit applications and static libraries. The [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu.html IBM documentation] explains how to build 64 bit applications and shared libraries with GCC.

'''GRASS 6: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''
* ''see [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/32667 this mailing list thread]''

Mike wrote in 2009:

After attempting all the suggestions, I finally used
--disable-shared on the configure command, and all but
a handful of modules successfully compiled. I was able to
individually address the ones that failed through Makefile
edits and several small source code/header file edits.

The environment variables and configure command that worked were:
<pre>
# xlc compiler:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH
export OBJECT_MODE=64
export LIBICONV=/opt/freeware
export CC="xlc_r -q64"
export CFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export CXX="xlC_r -q64"
export CXXFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export AR="ar -X64"
export F77="xlf_r -q64"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/afs/isis/pkg/libpng/include -I/usr/local/include -I$LIBICONV/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L$LIBICONV/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lc"

./configure --prefix=/afs/isis/pkg/grass-6.4.0 \
--enable-64bit \
--disable-shared \
--with-includes="/usr/include/fontconfig /usr/include/X11 /usr/include/X11/Xft /usr/include/X11/ext" \
--x-includes=/usr/include/X11 \
--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib \
--with-fftw-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/include \
--with-fftw-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/lib \
--with-gdal=/afs/isis/pkg/gdal/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/include \
--with-proj-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/lib \
--with-proj-share=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/local/include \
--with-tcltk-libs=/usr/local/lib \
--with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the GNU gcc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* if needed, [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* if needed (the name is often 'gmake' and not 'make') [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 5.x:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
CFLAGS='-ansi -D_ALL_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -Dinline=' ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 7.x:
<pre>
## AIX 7.x
export CC="gcc"
export CXX="g++"
PREFIX=$HOME/bin

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-bsvr4,-R,/opt/freeware/lib -L/opt/freeware/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/freeware/include" ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--enable-largefile \
--enable-shared \
--with-includes=/opt/freeware/include --with-libs=/opt/freeware/lib \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-gdal=$PREFIX/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib --with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include \
--with-png=no \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-opengl=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

==== MS-Windows ====

===== MS-Windows/Cygwin =====

* See the [[Cygwin]] wiki pages

===== MS-Windows/native =====

====== Compile ======

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.4.x + 7.x)
* <strike>[http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.3.x) </strike>
* See/adapt [http://blog.qgis.org/node/124 idea] for unattended install of QGIS (et al) from [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ OSGeo4W] from the QuantumGIS Blog.

See also [[WinGRASS Current Status]] for latest updates.

=== Common problems and solutions ===

During compilation, error can occur if certain packages are not installed. Here a list of problems with solution:

* error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
** this suggests that you don't have the X headers installed
** Solution: Install the libx11-dev package

* error: g.list: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal1.6.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** this error appears in the shell right after the user clicks GUI's "Start GRASS" button. The GUI shows an error about geographic extent and gets closed afterwards.
** It happens when you launch bin.i686 executable on 64bit system. Be careful and choose the right architecture.

=== Static compilation ===

In order to get static rather than dynamically linked binaries, configure like this:

./configure --disable-shared --enable-static

This will however break the wxGUI and GRASS 7 completely because "ctypes" wants to link against shared libs, or there is something in the static libs that "ctypes" does not like.

=== Optimization ===

GCC and other compilers support [http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.3/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options optimization]

If you would like to set compiler optimisations, for a possibly faster binary, type (don't enter a ";" anywhere):

CFLAGS=-O ./configure
or,
setenv CFLAGS -O
./configure

whichever works on your shell. Use -O2 instead of -O if your compiler supports this (note: O is the letter, not zero). Using the "gcc" compiler, you can also specify processor specific flags (examples, please suggest better settings to us):

CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O2" # AMD Athlon processor with code optimisations
CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10" # AMD Phenom II X4 64bit processor with gcc >=4.3
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium" # Intel Pentium processor
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4" # Intel Pentium4 processor
CFLAGS="-O2 -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -minline-all-stringops" # Intel XEON 64bit processor
CFLAGS="-mtune=nocona -m64 -minline-all-stringops" # Intel Pentium 64bit processor

To find out optional CFLAGS for your platform, enter:
gcc -dumpspecs

See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/

A real fast GRASS version (and small binaries) will be created with LDFLAGS set to "stripping" (but this disables debugging):

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=<cpu_see_above> -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure

=== Configure options and their meanings ===

For configure there are many options and some GRASS modules are built only if some options are set. Here are listed common configuration options with short explanation.

* --prefix=/path - Sets path where GRASS will be installed. GRASS will reside in /path/grass-version.
* --enable-largefile - Enables large (>2Gb on 32bit systems) support. For current large file support status look at [[Large File Support]] page.
* --with-cxx - Enables compilation of C++ code. Required for r.terraflow module.
* --with-readline - Enables readline support. If readline is enabled, you can use its history/editing facilities when entering r.mapcalc expressions on stdin.
* --with-glw - Enables GLw support. The GLw library provides OpenGL "canvas" widgets for Athena and Motif.

That switch is unnecessary for normal compilation. It's only
required for r3.showdspf, which isn't normally built; if you
want it, you have build it manually
(e.g. "make -C raster3d/r3.showdspf").
As similar functionality is now provided by NVIZ, r3.showdspf
is deprecated.
r3.showdspf uses the Motif widget (so you also need a
Motif library, e.g. Lesstif or OpenMotif).
[http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grassuser/2006-December/037475.html Glynn Clements at GRASS-user mailing list]

=== Parallelized compilation on multi-core CPUs ===

You can dramatically accelerate the compilation of the GRASS code with the -j flag of "make" if you have a multi-core CPU system. This determines the maximum number of jobs to have running at once, so cores don't have to sit idle waiting for jobs on other cores to complete. A good rule of thumb for this value is <tt>number_of_cores * 1.5</tt>, but note that setting any higher than the actual number of cores will only affect the timing slightly. For example, on a dual-core processor:
make -j 4



== GRASS-GDAL plugin ==

* see [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]]

== Addons ==

Please note that the installation of [[AddOns/GRASS_6|Addons]] can be easily done with the {{cmd|g.extension}} manager. The compile instructions below are aiming at own development.

=== Compiled modules ===

This is the general way which works for C modules as well as scripts (Python or Shell/Bash modules) which has HTML documentation.

'''Requirements:'''

Either:
* a binary GRASS package, or
* source code which has been prepared with:
./configure [opionally flags]
make libs

Each of the [[GRASS_AddOns|addon]] modules should come with a Makefile. To compile it, just run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/

Note that the <tt>/path/to/grass64</tt> has to be absolute, not relative.

If using Bash it may be useful to set that up as an alias:
alias gmake64='make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/'

Installation (perhaps requires "sudo"):
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/ install

Note: Compiled addons may require a re-compilation if you changed/updated your GRASS standard binaries.

==== If binary comes with a -dev package ====

''(work in progress, this text states how it eventually will be :)''
Nowadays one does not need to the source code, nor compiling GRASS by oneself to be able to add add-ons. On Debian, you can just install the grass-dev package and then run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/usr/lib/grass64/ INST_DIR=/usr/lib/grass64/

The grass-dev package essentially provides GRASS's <tt>include</tt> header files and Make configuration files.

=== Scripts ===

If the addon module is a script, it is sufficient to copy it into the (GRASS binaries) path somewhere. Alternatively, install addons into a separate GRASS addons binaries/scripts directory which is easier to maintain. It avoids getting clobbered every time you reinstall GRASS. To use these separately stored scripts, set and export the GRASS_ADDON_PATH environment variable before starting GRASS and it will automatically be added to the module search path (see the {{cmd|variables}} help page). To simplify this, do for example:

# add in $HOME/.bashrc:
GRASS_ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/grass/addons/
export GRASS_ADDON_PATH

Make sure that the script is executable, then just call it in GRASS typing the filename. Python scripts need to be called writing the extension as well, like:

GRASS 6.5.svn (spearfish60):~ > v.krige.py

[[Category:Development]]
[[Category:Documentation]]
[[Category:Installation]]

Compile and Install

2016-02-08T19:44:38Z

⚠️Plantarum: /* GRASS 7 on Debian Stretch */ added configuration flags

'''Disclaimer''': This page explains how to turn the GRASS GIS source code into an installable binary package ("compilation") for different operating systems. If you just want to get ready-to-use binaries, go [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/ here], otherwise read on...

== How to do compilation and installation of GRASS GIS? ==

Here we explain the procedure to compile GRASS from SVN, but it also applies to official GRASS 6 releases.

''For installation of precompiled binary packages, see the main [[Installation Guide]].''

For detailed information on compilation, please see the [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/INSTALL INSTALL] file in the source code.

=== Prerequisites ===

==== Extra libraries ====
GRASS needs at least two extra libraries: PROJ and GDAL/OGR

''Note: if you want to have DBMS support in GDAL (subsequently in GRASS) you have to perform the "Optional" steps below as well.''

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4] for management of projections (with proj-datumgrid-1.3.zip support)
* Optional: [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ GEOS]
* Optional: [http://www.postgresql.org PostgreSQL], [http://www.mysql.org mySQL], [http://www.unixodbc.org unixODBC], [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite] (SQLite is needed for [[QGIS]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR] for reading and writing various GIS data formats (interoperability)

You have to install these two libraries '''first''' (see below how to get them precompiled for your system).

It is easiest to obtain a prepackaged version of these libraries (e.g., .rpm; .deb) for your particular operating system and run the corresponding package installation (e.g., rpm -Uhv packagename.rpm; apt-get) in a terminal window. Take care to also install the development packages of these libraries (...-devel packages). If there is no prepackage version, then you will have to download the source code (see links above, source code packages usually ends in .tar.gz or .zip) and compile it (you must have a C compiler installed as part of your operating system). The Web sites show the steps to compile the libraries.

Other libraries needed to run GRASS are listed on the {{website|grass64/source/REQUIREMENTS.html|requirements page}}.

To compile, you will also need the respective "-devel" packages.

==== Download GRASS GIS source code ====
Then [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ download the GRASS GIS source code] of course.

=== Generic Compilation and installation procedure ===

* It is wise that compilation processes are carried out as a normal user: If you want to get the source code in a place where you do not have write permissions (e.g. in /usr/local/src/) just follow this:
cd /usr/local/src/
su -c 'mkdir grass6'
su -c 'chown yourlogin:yourgroup grass6'

Otherwise if you have permissions just continue as a normal user:
cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout ...

* do a code checkout from the SVN source code repository
: checkout the latest GRASS 6.x from SVN (see: {{twiki|DownloadSource}})

* in the grass6 directory, you will find the precious INSTALL file, open it with your favourite pager/editor and read it carefully!

* run configure with parameters to adapt the compile process to your own system. To see what options can be passed to it, run:
./configure --help | less


It may (!) look like this:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/include/pgsql/libpq \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj

You may have to explicitly state the path for certain packages (i.e., gdal). The Unix 'locate' command will come in handy for finding the path of the package you need (you may have to run locate as root ex: sudo locate gdal-config).

Please note that the paths mentioned may widely vary due to the distribution used.
See [[Compile_and_Install#Platform_Specific_Notes|Platform Specific Notes]] below.

Depending on your needs it may be a good idea to include debugging hooks.
: See [[GRASS_Debugging#Compile_Time_Setup]].
CFLAGS="-ggdb -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" ./configure ...

At the end of configuration process you should get report not much different from this:

GRASS is now configured for: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Source directory: /usr/src/grass6
Build directory: /usr/src/grass6
Installation directory: /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn
Startup script in directory: ${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -O2
C++ compiler: c++ -g -O2
FORTRAN compiler:
Building shared libraries: yes
64bit support: no

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
LAPACK support: no
Large File Support (LFS): no
Motif support: no
MySQL support: no
NLS support: no
ODBC support: no
OGR support: yes
OpenGL(R) support: yes
PNG support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: no
SQLite support: no
Tcl/Tk support: yes
TIFF support: yes
X11 support: yes

* Let's compile it (takes a little while...)!
make
* At the end, you should get report not much different from this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Following modules are missing the 'description.html' file in src code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GRASS GIS compilation log
-------------------------
Started compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:18:43 CEST 2006
--
Errors in:
--
Finished compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:43:40 CEST 2006
(In case of errors please change into the directory with error and run 'make')

* If there is any error, change directory to directory with error and run "make" again. Report occuring bug to grass mailing list
* Once the installation process is finished, you're ready to install GRASS system wide.
su -c 'make install'
* enjoy GRASS:
grass64

=== What else? ===

If you want to use [http://www.qgis.org QGIS], then also compile the GRASS-GDAL/OGR plugin. This is also useful to access your GRASS-data
from other application using GDAL/OGR like [http://thuban.intevation.de thuban].
* [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]] (enables QGIS to read GRASS data directly)

=== Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin ===

* See [[Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin]]

=== Platform Specific Notes ===

==== Linux ====

Linux cames in various flavours, i.e. distributions.

===== Debian =====

Read the instructions here:
: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/debian/README.debian

# first install PROJ, GDAL, etc.
cd grass64/
# follow instructions in debian/README.debian
fakeroot buildpackage

* Official [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis DebianGIS] packaging control files:

<strike>
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/trunk/

or

svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/branches/<GRASS Version>
</strike>

Available on git server:
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/grass.git

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/grass.git/

====== GRASS 6.1 on Debian Sarge ======

* [http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/debiangisfiles#compile Compiling GRASS 6.1-CVS on Debian/OldStable (aka 3.1, Sarge)]

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Lenny ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev lesstif2-dev debhelper dpatch libtiff4-dev \
tcl-dev tk-dev libfftw3-dev libxmu-dev libfreetype6-dev autoconf2.13 autotools-dev doxygen \
libmysqlclient15-dev graphviz libsqlite3-dev python-wxgtk2.8 libcairo2-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev \
python-dev libgdal1-dev libgdal1-1.5.0 libproj-dev libproj0 proj-data mysql

# Important: avoid using CFLAGS="... -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" (also on later Debian versions), see {{trac|1684}}

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.4/ \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif --with-fftw --with-nls --with-python \
--with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev tcl-dev tk-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libatlas-dev libgegl-dev doxygen postgresql mysql-server \
libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev libgeotiff-epsg libxmu-dev libxt-dev libx11-dev

# Important: avoid using CFLAGS="... -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" (also on later Debian versions), see {{trac|1684}}

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-geos \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.6/ \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-fftw \
--with-nls \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-python \
--with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Squeeze ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev python-dev \
g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff4-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev

Download source code:

svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass_trunk

Configure:

cd grass_trunk/
CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-Wall" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--without-tcltk \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite \
--with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.6-config --with-wxwidgets \
--with-geos --with-pthread

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass71

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Wheezy ======

Install needed packages:

# note: cmake and libboost-all-dev only needed for optional libLAS
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev

sudo apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev libncurses5-dev libproj-dev \
libreadline-dev libtiff4-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers \
libxt-dev mesa-common-dev proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common \
zlib1g-dev netcdf-bin libatlas-dev libgegl-dev opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 \
libsqlite3-dev postgresql python-sphinx python-gdal

Download and Install libLAS
wget http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.7.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libLAS-1.7.0.tar.gz
cd libLAS-1.7.0/
mkdir makefiles
cd makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ../..

Download of GRASS GIS 7 source code:
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grass-7.0.0.tar.gz

Configure:
cd grass-7.0.0
CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos --with-blas \
--with-lapack-includes=/usr/lib/lapack --with-liblas=yes \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=yes --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql

# --with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
# --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \

GRASS GIS 7 is now configured (example):

Source directory: /home/user/grass-7.0.0
Build directory: /home/user/grass-7.0.0
Installation directory: ${prefix}/grass-7.0.0
Startup script in directory:${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused
C++ compiler: c++ -g -Wall
Building shared libraries: yes
OpenGL platform: X11
MacOSX application: no
MacOSX architectures:
MacOSX SDK:
BLAS support: yes
C++ support: yes
Cairo support: yes
DWG support: no
FFTW support: yes
FreeType support: yes
GDAL support: yes
GEOS support: yes
LAPACK support: no
Large File support (LFS): yes
libLAS support: yes
MySQL support: no
NetCDF support: yes
NLS support: yes
ODBC support: yes
OGR support: yes
OpenCL support: no
OpenGL support: yes
OpenMP support: yes
PNG support: yes
POSIX thread support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: yes
Regex support: yes
SQLite support: yes
TIFF support: yes
wxWidgets support: yes
X11 support: no

Compile:
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

Launch:
grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 \
autotools-dev python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libgegl-dev doxygen python-sphinx \
postgresql libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev mysql-server \
libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack3gf liblapack-dev
# opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 liblas-bin liblas-c-dev python-gdal

Download and compile libLAS (or simply install 'liblas-c-dev ', see above):
wget http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.8.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf libLAS-1.8.0.tar.bz2
mkdir libLAS-1.8.0/makefiles
cd libLAS-1.8.0/makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
sudo make install

Download and compile GRASS 7:
# (check there for later version)
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
tar xzfv grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
cd grass-7.0.0
CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=no --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Stretch ======
(Updated from above with package changes required for Debian Stretch)

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 \
autotools-dev python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1i libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libgegl-dev doxygen python-sphinx \
postgresql libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev mysql-server \
libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack3 liblapack-dev \
opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 liblas-bin liblas-c-dev python-gdal

Configuration:

CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=no --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql

Compile:

make -j2

Install:

make install

===== Ubuntu =====

There is a dedicated page on how to [[Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu | Compile the GRASS GIS source code & install it in Ubuntu]].

===== Linux Mint =====

Install packages needed for compilation:
<pre>
sudo apt-get install build-essential flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ \
cmake ccache python python-dev python-qt4 python-qt4-dev python-opengl \
python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk2.8 python-dateutil \
libgsl0-dev python-numpy wx2.8-headers wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dbg libwxbase2.8-dev libwxbase2.8-dbg libncurses5-dev \
zlib1g-dev gettext libtiff-dev libpnglite-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev \
libcairo2 libcairo2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline6 \
libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev txt2tags libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-sql \
libqt4-qt3support lsb-qt4 qt4-designer qt4-dev-tools qt4-doc \
qt4-qtconfig libapt-pkg-perl resolvconf libjasper-dev ruby subversion \
ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora libffmpegthumbnailer-dev libavcodec-dev libxmu-dev \
libavformat-dev libswscale-dev checkinstall libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin python-gdal

CFLAGS="-Wall" ./configure --with-cxx --with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos --without-postgres \
--with-nls --with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL/ \
--with-x --with-fftw --with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 --with-sqlite \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config --with-wx=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-cairo --enable-largefile

make

sudo make install
</pre>

===== Mandriva =====

Installation of dependencies (urpmi will ask you a few more):

'''Mandriva 2009:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit)
# as root
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
mesagl1-devel mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

'''Mandriva 2010:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit) - see also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/current/SPECS/ SPEC] file
# as root
# installation of PROJ and GDAL
urpmi proj proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gcc-gfortran lib64openssl1.0.0 \
lib64openssl1.0.0-devel postgresql8.4-devel lib64pq8.4

# installation of compilation environment
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
lib64mesagl1-devel lib64mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

Then, to configure GRASS, run (64 bit stuff optional of course):
# as user
./configure \
--enable-64bit --with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-python \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/lib/wxPython/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/libav* /usr/include/libpostproc /usr/include/libswscale" \
--with-motif \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile

# compilation (use -j2 ior -j4 parameter on multi-core CPUs to accelerate):
make

Installation:
su
# this will install into /usr/local/
make install
exit

===== Enterprise Linux =====

Enterprise Linux (EL) and derivatives (that is, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Scientific Linux) is a popular and robust platform for servers and computing-heavy workstations, and is therefore a good fit for GIS specific requirements.

See: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

===== Scientific Linux =====

See Centos

===== CentOS =====

You first need to add the EPEL repository for PROJ.4 and GDAL, see [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F here]

<strike>
Preparation '''Centos 5''' (old):
yum install epel-release

# Note: CentOS 5 comes with Python 2.4 which lacks python-config, hence two extra tweaks are needed.
yum install flex bison zlib-devel tcl-devel tk-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
libtiff-devel libpng-devel sqlite-devel \
mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-libGLw-devel \
mesa-libOSMesa-devel libXmu-devel python-devel gtk2-devel\
ncurses-devel postgresql-devel make
</strike>

Preparation '''Centos 6''' | '''Scientific Linux 6''':
yum install epel-release

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib
# only GRASS GIS 6: install also tcl-devel tk-devel

Preparation '''Centos 7''' | '''Scientific Linux 7''':
yum install epel-release

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
netcdf netcdf-devel blas-devel lapack-devel atlas-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib python-sphinx \
doxygen subversion

'''GRASS GIS 7 compilation and installation'''

[http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ Download source code] (e.g., --> "Download latest 7.0-svn code (SVN))" and configure GRASS 7 (suggestion: save this as script):

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-python \
--with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-openmp \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-fftw \
--with-geos \
--with-netcdf \
--without-ffmpeg \
--without-mysql \
--without-postgres \
--without-odbc \
--without-fftw

Compile:
make
or on a multicore system (number depends of available cores):
make -j4

For a system wide installation, run as root user:
make install
OR simply run it directly from the source code directory (substitute ARCH with i686 or x86_64):

bin.$ARCH/grass70 -gui

In this case, for convenience, add it to the search path:
mkdir $HOME/bin
cd $HOME/bin
# example:
ln -s $HOME/software/grass70_release/bin.i686-pc-linux-gnu/grass70 .

Now use it subsequently with
grass70 -gui

===== Gentoo =====

./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/"

See also http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-geosciences/grass

===== Funtoo =====

The [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Generic_Compilation_and_installation_procedure Generic Compilation & installation procedure] applies also for the [http://www.funtoo.org/ Funtoo] Linux meta-distribution. The following example scripts are provided as a mean to get started.

====== Installing dependencies ======

'''''Following likely needs to be updated!'''''

<source lang="bash">
# # Searching for missing packages, e.g. wxwidgets
# e-file wx-config

# emerge dependecies -- This will take quite some time! Hint: net-libs/webkit-gtk
USE="curl xls fftw gmath motif wxwidgets gml hdf5 jpeg2k mdb netcdf odbc ogdi opencl postgres spatialite sqlite szip" \
emerge -av proj geos gdal \
xerces \
mesa motif libGLw \
tcl tk clang llvm byacc opencl \
unixODBC postgresql-base ogdi spatialite \
libgeotiff hdf5 netcdf \
eselect-postgresql eselect-opencl eselect-wxwidgets \
wxpython pyopengl \
fftw

# before compiling
eselect python set 1 # probably #1 is python 2.7
</source>

====== Example Scripts ======

A simple configuration and compilation

<ul>
<source lang="bash">
# clean previous configuration
make distclean

# update source code
svn up

# renice! source: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2013-May/068229.html>
renice +17 -p $$

# configure
./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
2>&1 | tee config_log.txt

# compile
time make -j13
</source>
</ul>

An attempt for a complete configuration and compilation '''checking'''. In addition, this script times each of the executed commands (need for scrolling back!).

<ul>
<source lang="bash">
# clean previous configuration
time make distclean

# update
time svn up

# renice! source: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2013-May/068229.html>
renice +17 -p $$

# configure
CFLAGS="-ggdb -march=native -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" \
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-includes=/usr/include/ --with-libs=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-proj \
--with-proj-includes=/usr/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-cairo \
--with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
--without-ffmpeg \
--with-python=yes --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--with-odbc=yes \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes="/usr/include/mysql" --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-postgres=yes --with-postgresql=yes --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
--with-opencl --with-openmp --with-pthread \
--with-lapack \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-regex \
--with-nls \
--with-jpeg \
--with-tiff \
--with-png \
--with-netcdf \
--without-opendwg \
--enable-largefile=yes \
2>&1 | tee config_log.txt

# check "make"
time make check
</source>
</ul>

===== Fedora =====

====== GRASS GIS 6 on Fedora ======

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS 6 source code (F16-F21):

yum install proj-devel gdal-devel sqlite-devel ffmpeg-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel tcl-devel tk-devel geos \
fftw-devel libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 subversion

''Note 1: that currently gdal-devel has (too) many dependencies and may lead to a massive download of extra packages (200 on a fresh Fedora 16 install). Hopefully solved in later Fedora versions.''

''Note 2: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 6: [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ release package] - [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS6.4 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an ''example'' how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-geos \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc \
--with-fftw

Extra: If you also want '''FFMPEG''' support - it requires 'yum install fftw-devel'. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS 6 and enjoy!

====== GRASS GIS 7 on Fedora ======

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS 7 source code (F20-F22):

dnf install gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 \
proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gdal-python sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
fftw-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel geos geos-devel \
libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib-wx subversion doxygen python-sphinx

# optionally also: netcdf-devel postgresql-devel

''Note 1: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 7: [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS7 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an example how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-geos \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc

''Extra 1:'' If you also want '''FFMPEG support''' - it requires 'dnf install fftw-devel' from the rpmfusion-free repository. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

''Extra 2:'' For '''LAPACK/BLAS support''' (addons i.spec.unmix, v.kriging etc), install "dnf install lapack lapack-devel blas blas-devel atlas atlas-devel". Then add to the configuration lines above:
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS 7 and enjoy!

===== openSUSE =====

To build GRASS on openSUSE:

RPM packages to be installed:
<source lang="bash">
sudo zypper install bison flex freetype2-devel fftw3-devel gcc-c++ \
libgdal-devel libgeos-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel \
man proj libproj-devel readline-devel netcdf-devel ncurses-devel \
mysql-devel postgresql-devel sqlite-devel unixODBC-devel \
tcl-devel tk-devel xorg-x11-Mesa-devel libXmu-devel \
python-numpy python-dateutil python-devel python-opengl \
python-wxWidgets python-xml python-dateutil wxWidgets-devel \
zlib-devel doxygen python-sphinx
</source>

Source code configuration:
<source lang="bash">
./configure \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-cxx \
--with-lapack=yes \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-netcdf \
--with-curses \
--with-geos \
--with-nls \
--with-sqlite \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-odbc \
--with-python
</source>

Then compile with "make [-j2]".

===== Arch Linux =====

The easiest/fastest way is to build GRASS GIS using AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=grass (msieczka: I would recommend my set of PKBUILDs - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=czk&SeB=m. They are most feature-rich, up-to-date and allow to have various versions installed alongside each other without conflicts.)

But if you want to compile it yourself you have to keep in mind that in Arch Linux the default Python version 3.

python --version

Python 3.3.1

Therefore, to build GRASS GIS (version 7 in this example), we can use either use virtualenv or symlink python2 and python2-config in a given directory.
Let's use the latter approach

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 $HOME/usr/bin/python
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2-config $HOME/usr/bin/python-config

We can now start building GRASS 7

export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH && \
./configure \
--enable-debug \
--enable-64bit \
--with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-readline \
--with-zlib-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-freetype=yes \
--with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--enable-largefile=yes \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-cairo \
--with-odbc \
--with-pthread \
--with-liblas=/usr/local/bin/liblas-config \
--with-fftw-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-fftw-libs=/usr/lib/ \
--with-tcltk-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql/internal" \
--with-postgres-libs="/usr/include/postgresql/internal/libpq" \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-python=yes \
--with-liblas \
--with-netcdf

Now let's compile and install it

make
sudo make install

Now the final step required to use GRASS with python2 is to create a bash script "grass" (or the name you want)

#!/bin/bash
export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH
python2 /usr/local/bin/grass70

And make it executable and copy it somewhere in the PATH

chmod+x grass
sudo cp grass /usr/local/bin

It's done, you can enjoy GRASS 7 in Arch, just type "grass" (or the name you gave to the script) in the terminal to launch it.

===== RPM SPEC files =====
* ... can be found in the source code, rpm/ directory,
* or [https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=grass&project=Application%3AGeo OpenSuSe]
* or [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/grass Fedora]
* or [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/ Mandriva] (there are also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/proj/ proj4], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/geos/ geos], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal/ gdal], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal-grass/ gdal-grass-plugin], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/qgis/ qgis] etc)
* ...

===== Zaurus =====

... see [http://wiki.debian.org/?GrassGISonZaurus here] for instructions

==== Mac OSX ====

===== Conventional installation =====
* see the source/macosx readme ([http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/macosx/ReadMe.rtf Trac link])
* main page [[Compiling on MacOSX]]
* main page [[Packaging on MacOSX]]
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/mac-osx/ official download site]
* [http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#build_scripts build scripts for dependencies]
* solving errors at starting GRASS GIS: [[MacOSX GRASS errors]]
=====[[Compiling on MacOSX using homebrew]] =====

==== FreeBSD / NetBSD ====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the respective package managing tools (pkg_add for FreeBSD and pkgin install for NetBSD) and for recent *BSD versions most likely installed by default.

GRASS 6.x and GRASS 7 should compile on FreeBSD 8.0 or later and NetBSD 5.0 or later (maybe also on updated NetBSD 4.x).

It is highly recommended to install GDAL/OGR and PROJ4 first. These libraries and tools are available as [http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ ports for FreeBSD] and [http://www.pkgsrc.org/ packages for NetBSD].

Optional functionality is listed with ''./configure --help'', and related libraries and tools might need to be installed first.

==== Solaris ====

* ''2008 Oct 15'': see [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2008-October/047093.html this post on the grass mailing list]

===== 11 SPARC/i86pc =====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the Solaris package manager.

Most dependencies are available through the Solaris package manager. GDAL and proj4 can either be compiled from source or installed e.g. from [http://www.opencsw.org/ OpenCSW]. If packages are installed from OpenCSW, the linker flags need to be set with

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R/opt/csw/lib -L/opt/csw/lib -Wl,-R/opt/csw/gxx/lib -L/opt/csw/gxx/lib"

See also the [http://www.opencsw.org/use-it/ OpenCSW documentation].

===== 10 SPARC/i86pc =====

* get gcc compiler and tools. There are several sources: Solaris Companion CD (SFW pkg, installs in /opt/sfw/), Blastwave ([http://www.blastwave.org], CSW pkg, installs in /opt/csw/) or Sunfreeware ([http://www.sunfreeware.com], SMC pkg, installs in /usr/local/).
Needed Packages from Sunfreeware: SMCbinut, SMCbison, SMCcoreu, SMCfindu, SMCflex, SMCgawk, SMCgcc, SMCgrep, SMCgzip, SMCless, SMClibt, SMClicon, SMCmake, SMCncurs, SMCproj, SMCsed, SMCtar, SMCtcl, SMCtiff, SMCtk, SMCunzip, SMCzlib.

* compile and install fftw-library ([http://www.fftw.org]). You need to re-compile the library with:

./configure --with-pic --enable-shared; make ; make install.

The pre-built packages don't work.

* compile and install gdal library (see documentation of gdal, [http://www.gdal.org]).

* compile and install any additional libraries (e. g. GEOS, [http://geos.refractions.net]).

* set compiler flags and path. e. g.:

# on ultra-sparc machine:
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS PATH

Path has to be changed for the packages (Sunfreeware: /usr/local/bin, Solaris Companion: /opt/sfw/bin, Blastwave: /opt/csw/bin).

* Next configure, e. g.:

./configure --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql/ \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib --with-postgres=yes \
--with-includes=/usr/local/include/ncurses

If you use n(ew)curses, you have to include the path /usr/local/include/ncurses.

then:

make
su
make install

If the shared libraries are not found at runtime of the modules, use 'crle' to add the paths of the libraries for the dynamic linker, e. g. as root:

crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/X11/lib

Be careful not to omit a library path, the system may be unusable if you forget the /lib path.

==== AIX ====

A recent [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81) and GNU coreutils are required. These are available with the [http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/download.html IBM AIX toolbox] or through third-party AIX software repositories, e.g. [http://www.bullfreeware.com/ bullfreeware] and [http://www.perzl.org/aix/ perzl.org]. Note that 'make' does not work, only 'gmake' works.

General instructions to compile on AIX are e.g. [http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Instructions here]

On AIX, compilation results by default in 32 bit applications and static libraries. The [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu.html IBM documentation] explains how to build 64 bit applications and shared libraries with GCC.

'''GRASS 6: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''
* ''see [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/32667 this mailing list thread]''

Mike wrote in 2009:

After attempting all the suggestions, I finally used
--disable-shared on the configure command, and all but
a handful of modules successfully compiled. I was able to
individually address the ones that failed through Makefile
edits and several small source code/header file edits.

The environment variables and configure command that worked were:
<pre>
# xlc compiler:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH
export OBJECT_MODE=64
export LIBICONV=/opt/freeware
export CC="xlc_r -q64"
export CFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export CXX="xlC_r -q64"
export CXXFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export AR="ar -X64"
export F77="xlf_r -q64"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/afs/isis/pkg/libpng/include -I/usr/local/include -I$LIBICONV/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L$LIBICONV/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lc"

./configure --prefix=/afs/isis/pkg/grass-6.4.0 \
--enable-64bit \
--disable-shared \
--with-includes="/usr/include/fontconfig /usr/include/X11 /usr/include/X11/Xft /usr/include/X11/ext" \
--x-includes=/usr/include/X11 \
--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib \
--with-fftw-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/include \
--with-fftw-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/lib \
--with-gdal=/afs/isis/pkg/gdal/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/include \
--with-proj-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/lib \
--with-proj-share=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/local/include \
--with-tcltk-libs=/usr/local/lib \
--with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the GNU gcc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* if needed, [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* if needed (the name is often 'gmake' and not 'make') [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 5.x:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
CFLAGS='-ansi -D_ALL_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -Dinline=' ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 7.x:
<pre>
## AIX 7.x
export CC="gcc"
export CXX="g++"
PREFIX=$HOME/bin

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-bsvr4,-R,/opt/freeware/lib -L/opt/freeware/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/freeware/include" ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--enable-largefile \
--enable-shared \
--with-includes=/opt/freeware/include --with-libs=/opt/freeware/lib \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-gdal=$PREFIX/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib --with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include \
--with-png=no \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-opengl=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

==== MS-Windows ====

===== MS-Windows/Cygwin =====

* See the [[Cygwin]] wiki pages

===== MS-Windows/native =====

====== Compile ======

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.4.x + 7.x)
* <strike>[http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.3.x) </strike>
* See/adapt [http://blog.qgis.org/node/124 idea] for unattended install of QGIS (et al) from [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ OSGeo4W] from the QuantumGIS Blog.

See also [[WinGRASS Current Status]] for latest updates.

=== Common problems and solutions ===

During compilation, error can occur if certain packages are not installed. Here a list of problems with solution:

* error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
** this suggests that you don't have the X headers installed
** Solution: Install the libx11-dev package

* error: g.list: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal1.6.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** this error appears in the shell right after the user clicks GUI's "Start GRASS" button. The GUI shows an error about geographic extent and gets closed afterwards.
** It happens when you launch bin.i686 executable on 64bit system. Be careful and choose the right architecture.

=== Static compilation ===

In order to get static rather than dynamically linked binaries, configure like this:

./configure --disable-shared --enable-static

This will however break the wxGUI and GRASS 7 completely because "ctypes" wants to link against shared libs, or there is something in the static libs that "ctypes" does not like.

=== Optimization ===

GCC and other compilers support [http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.3/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options optimization]

If you would like to set compiler optimisations, for a possibly faster binary, type (don't enter a ";" anywhere):

CFLAGS=-O ./configure
or,
setenv CFLAGS -O
./configure

whichever works on your shell. Use -O2 instead of -O if your compiler supports this (note: O is the letter, not zero). Using the "gcc" compiler, you can also specify processor specific flags (examples, please suggest better settings to us):

CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O2" # AMD Athlon processor with code optimisations
CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10" # AMD Phenom II X4 64bit processor with gcc >=4.3
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium" # Intel Pentium processor
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4" # Intel Pentium4 processor
CFLAGS="-O2 -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -minline-all-stringops" # Intel XEON 64bit processor
CFLAGS="-mtune=nocona -m64 -minline-all-stringops" # Intel Pentium 64bit processor

To find out optional CFLAGS for your platform, enter:
gcc -dumpspecs

See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/

A real fast GRASS version (and small binaries) will be created with LDFLAGS set to "stripping" (but this disables debugging):

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=<cpu_see_above> -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure

=== Configure options and their meanings ===

For configure there are many options and some GRASS modules are built only if some options are set. Here are listed common configuration options with short explanation.

* --prefix=/path - Sets path where GRASS will be installed. GRASS will reside in /path/grass-version.
* --enable-largefile - Enables large (>2Gb on 32bit systems) support. For current large file support status look at [[Large File Support]] page.
* --with-cxx - Enables compilation of C++ code. Required for r.terraflow module.
* --with-readline - Enables readline support. If readline is enabled, you can use its history/editing facilities when entering r.mapcalc expressions on stdin.
* --with-glw - Enables GLw support. The GLw library provides OpenGL "canvas" widgets for Athena and Motif.

That switch is unnecessary for normal compilation. It's only
required for r3.showdspf, which isn't normally built; if you
want it, you have build it manually
(e.g. "make -C raster3d/r3.showdspf").
As similar functionality is now provided by NVIZ, r3.showdspf
is deprecated.
r3.showdspf uses the Motif widget (so you also need a
Motif library, e.g. Lesstif or OpenMotif).
[http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grassuser/2006-December/037475.html Glynn Clements at GRASS-user mailing list]

=== Parallelized compilation on multi-core CPUs ===

You can dramatically accelerate the compilation of the GRASS code with the -j flag of "make" if you have a multi-core CPU system. This determines the maximum number of jobs to have running at once, so cores don't have to sit idle waiting for jobs on other cores to complete. A good rule of thumb for this value is <tt>number_of_cores * 1.5</tt>, but note that setting any higher than the actual number of cores will only affect the timing slightly. For example, on a dual-core processor:
make -j 4



== GRASS-GDAL plugin ==

* see [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]]

== Addons ==

Please note that the installation of [[AddOns/GRASS_6|Addons]] can be easily done with the {{cmd|g.extension}} manager. The compile instructions below are aiming at own development.

=== Compiled modules ===

This is the general way which works for C modules as well as scripts (Python or Shell/Bash modules) which has HTML documentation.

'''Requirements:'''

Either:
* a binary GRASS package, or
* source code which has been prepared with:
./configure [opionally flags]
make libs

Each of the [[GRASS_AddOns|addon]] modules should come with a Makefile. To compile it, just run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/

Note that the <tt>/path/to/grass64</tt> has to be absolute, not relative.

If using Bash it may be useful to set that up as an alias:
alias gmake64='make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/'

Installation (perhaps requires "sudo"):
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/ install

Note: Compiled addons may require a re-compilation if you changed/updated your GRASS standard binaries.

==== If binary comes with a -dev package ====

''(work in progress, this text states how it eventually will be :)''
Nowadays one does not need to the source code, nor compiling GRASS by oneself to be able to add add-ons. On Debian, you can just install the grass-dev package and then run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/usr/lib/grass64/ INST_DIR=/usr/lib/grass64/

The grass-dev package essentially provides GRASS's <tt>include</tt> header files and Make configuration files.

=== Scripts ===

If the addon module is a script, it is sufficient to copy it into the (GRASS binaries) path somewhere. Alternatively, install addons into a separate GRASS addons binaries/scripts directory which is easier to maintain. It avoids getting clobbered every time you reinstall GRASS. To use these separately stored scripts, set and export the GRASS_ADDON_PATH environment variable before starting GRASS and it will automatically be added to the module search path (see the {{cmd|variables}} help page). To simplify this, do for example:

# add in $HOME/.bashrc:
GRASS_ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/grass/addons/
export GRASS_ADDON_PATH

Make sure that the script is executable, then just call it in GRASS typing the filename. Python scripts need to be called writing the extension as well, like:

GRASS 6.5.svn (spearfish60):~ > v.krige.py

[[Category:Development]]
[[Category:Documentation]]
[[Category:Installation]]

Compile and Install

2016-02-08T15:22:53Z

⚠️Plantarum: /* GRASS 7 on Debian Jessie */ corrected title to stretch

'''Disclaimer''': This page explains how to turn the GRASS GIS source code into an installable binary package ("compilation") for different operating systems. If you just want to get ready-to-use binaries, go [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/ here], otherwise read on...

== How to do compilation and installation of GRASS GIS? ==

Here we explain the procedure to compile GRASS from SVN, but it also applies to official GRASS 6 releases.

''For installation of precompiled binary packages, see the main [[Installation Guide]].''

For detailed information on compilation, please see the [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/INSTALL INSTALL] file in the source code.

=== Prerequisites ===

==== Extra libraries ====
GRASS needs at least two extra libraries: PROJ and GDAL/OGR

''Note: if you want to have DBMS support in GDAL (subsequently in GRASS) you have to perform the "Optional" steps below as well.''

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4] for management of projections (with proj-datumgrid-1.3.zip support)
* Optional: [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ GEOS]
* Optional: [http://www.postgresql.org PostgreSQL], [http://www.mysql.org mySQL], [http://www.unixodbc.org unixODBC], [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite] (SQLite is needed for [[QGIS]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR] for reading and writing various GIS data formats (interoperability)

You have to install these two libraries '''first''' (see below how to get them precompiled for your system).

It is easiest to obtain a prepackaged version of these libraries (e.g., .rpm; .deb) for your particular operating system and run the corresponding package installation (e.g., rpm -Uhv packagename.rpm; apt-get) in a terminal window. Take care to also install the development packages of these libraries (...-devel packages). If there is no prepackage version, then you will have to download the source code (see links above, source code packages usually ends in .tar.gz or .zip) and compile it (you must have a C compiler installed as part of your operating system). The Web sites show the steps to compile the libraries.

Other libraries needed to run GRASS are listed on the {{website|grass64/source/REQUIREMENTS.html|requirements page}}.

To compile, you will also need the respective "-devel" packages.

==== Download GRASS GIS source code ====
Then [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ download the GRASS GIS source code] of course.

=== Generic Compilation and installation procedure ===

* It is wise that compilation processes are carried out as a normal user: If you want to get the source code in a place where you do not have write permissions (e.g. in /usr/local/src/) just follow this:
cd /usr/local/src/
su -c 'mkdir grass6'
su -c 'chown yourlogin:yourgroup grass6'

Otherwise if you have permissions just continue as a normal user:
cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout ...

* do a code checkout from the SVN source code repository
: checkout the latest GRASS 6.x from SVN (see: {{twiki|DownloadSource}})

* in the grass6 directory, you will find the precious INSTALL file, open it with your favourite pager/editor and read it carefully!

* run configure with parameters to adapt the compile process to your own system. To see what options can be passed to it, run:
./configure --help | less


It may (!) look like this:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/include/pgsql/libpq \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj

You may have to explicitly state the path for certain packages (i.e., gdal). The Unix 'locate' command will come in handy for finding the path of the package you need (you may have to run locate as root ex: sudo locate gdal-config).

Please note that the paths mentioned may widely vary due to the distribution used.
See [[Compile_and_Install#Platform_Specific_Notes|Platform Specific Notes]] below.

Depending on your needs it may be a good idea to include debugging hooks.
: See [[GRASS_Debugging#Compile_Time_Setup]].
CFLAGS="-ggdb -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" ./configure ...

At the end of configuration process you should get report not much different from this:

GRASS is now configured for: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Source directory: /usr/src/grass6
Build directory: /usr/src/grass6
Installation directory: /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn
Startup script in directory: ${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -O2
C++ compiler: c++ -g -O2
FORTRAN compiler:
Building shared libraries: yes
64bit support: no

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
LAPACK support: no
Large File Support (LFS): no
Motif support: no
MySQL support: no
NLS support: no
ODBC support: no
OGR support: yes
OpenGL(R) support: yes
PNG support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: no
SQLite support: no
Tcl/Tk support: yes
TIFF support: yes
X11 support: yes

* Let's compile it (takes a little while...)!
make
* At the end, you should get report not much different from this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Following modules are missing the 'description.html' file in src code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GRASS GIS compilation log
-------------------------
Started compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:18:43 CEST 2006
--
Errors in:
--
Finished compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:43:40 CEST 2006
(In case of errors please change into the directory with error and run 'make')

* If there is any error, change directory to directory with error and run "make" again. Report occuring bug to grass mailing list
* Once the installation process is finished, you're ready to install GRASS system wide.
su -c 'make install'
* enjoy GRASS:
grass64

=== What else? ===

If you want to use [http://www.qgis.org QGIS], then also compile the GRASS-GDAL/OGR plugin. This is also useful to access your GRASS-data
from other application using GDAL/OGR like [http://thuban.intevation.de thuban].
* [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]] (enables QGIS to read GRASS data directly)

=== Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin ===

* See [[Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin]]

=== Platform Specific Notes ===

==== Linux ====

Linux cames in various flavours, i.e. distributions.

===== Debian =====

Read the instructions here:
: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/debian/README.debian

# first install PROJ, GDAL, etc.
cd grass64/
# follow instructions in debian/README.debian
fakeroot buildpackage

* Official [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis DebianGIS] packaging control files:

<strike>
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/trunk/

or

svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/branches/<GRASS Version>
</strike>

Available on git server:
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/grass.git

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/grass.git/

====== GRASS 6.1 on Debian Sarge ======

* [http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/debiangisfiles#compile Compiling GRASS 6.1-CVS on Debian/OldStable (aka 3.1, Sarge)]

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Lenny ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev lesstif2-dev debhelper dpatch libtiff4-dev \
tcl-dev tk-dev libfftw3-dev libxmu-dev libfreetype6-dev autoconf2.13 autotools-dev doxygen \
libmysqlclient15-dev graphviz libsqlite3-dev python-wxgtk2.8 libcairo2-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev \
python-dev libgdal1-dev libgdal1-1.5.0 libproj-dev libproj0 proj-data mysql

# Important: avoid using CFLAGS="... -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" (also on later Debian versions), see {{trac|1684}}

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.4/ \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif --with-fftw --with-nls --with-python \
--with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev tcl-dev tk-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libatlas-dev libgegl-dev doxygen postgresql mysql-server \
libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev libgeotiff-epsg libxmu-dev libxt-dev libx11-dev

# Important: avoid using CFLAGS="... -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" (also on later Debian versions), see {{trac|1684}}

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-geos \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.6/ \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-fftw \
--with-nls \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-python \
--with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Squeeze ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev python-dev \
g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff4-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev

Download source code:

svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass_trunk

Configure:

cd grass_trunk/
CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-Wall" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--without-tcltk \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite \
--with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.6-config --with-wxwidgets \
--with-geos --with-pthread

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass71

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Wheezy ======

Install needed packages:

# note: cmake and libboost-all-dev only needed for optional libLAS
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev

sudo apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev libncurses5-dev libproj-dev \
libreadline-dev libtiff4-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers \
libxt-dev mesa-common-dev proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common \
zlib1g-dev netcdf-bin libatlas-dev libgegl-dev opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 \
libsqlite3-dev postgresql python-sphinx python-gdal

Download and Install libLAS
wget http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.7.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libLAS-1.7.0.tar.gz
cd libLAS-1.7.0/
mkdir makefiles
cd makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ../..

Download of GRASS GIS 7 source code:
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grass-7.0.0.tar.gz

Configure:
cd grass-7.0.0
CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos --with-blas \
--with-lapack-includes=/usr/lib/lapack --with-liblas=yes \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=yes --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql

# --with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
# --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \

GRASS GIS 7 is now configured (example):

Source directory: /home/user/grass-7.0.0
Build directory: /home/user/grass-7.0.0
Installation directory: ${prefix}/grass-7.0.0
Startup script in directory:${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused
C++ compiler: c++ -g -Wall
Building shared libraries: yes
OpenGL platform: X11
MacOSX application: no
MacOSX architectures:
MacOSX SDK:
BLAS support: yes
C++ support: yes
Cairo support: yes
DWG support: no
FFTW support: yes
FreeType support: yes
GDAL support: yes
GEOS support: yes
LAPACK support: no
Large File support (LFS): yes
libLAS support: yes
MySQL support: no
NetCDF support: yes
NLS support: yes
ODBC support: yes
OGR support: yes
OpenCL support: no
OpenGL support: yes
OpenMP support: yes
PNG support: yes
POSIX thread support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: yes
Regex support: yes
SQLite support: yes
TIFF support: yes
wxWidgets support: yes
X11 support: no

Compile:
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

Launch:
grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 \
autotools-dev python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libgegl-dev doxygen python-sphinx \
postgresql libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev mysql-server \
libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack3gf liblapack-dev
# opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 liblas-bin liblas-c-dev python-gdal

Download and compile libLAS (or simply install 'liblas-c-dev ', see above):
wget http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.8.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf libLAS-1.8.0.tar.bz2
mkdir libLAS-1.8.0/makefiles
cd libLAS-1.8.0/makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
sudo make install

Download and compile GRASS 7:
# (check there for later version)
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
tar xzfv grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
cd grass-7.0.0
CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=no --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Stretch ======

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 \
autotools-dev python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1i libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libgegl-dev doxygen python-sphinx \
postgresql libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev mysql-server \
libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack3 liblapack-dev \
opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 liblas-bin liblas-c-dev python-gdal

===== Ubuntu =====

There is a dedicated page on how to [[Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu | Compile the GRASS GIS source code & install it in Ubuntu]].

===== Linux Mint =====

Install packages needed for compilation:
<pre>
sudo apt-get install build-essential flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ \
cmake ccache python python-dev python-qt4 python-qt4-dev python-opengl \
python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk2.8 python-dateutil \
libgsl0-dev python-numpy wx2.8-headers wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dbg libwxbase2.8-dev libwxbase2.8-dbg libncurses5-dev \
zlib1g-dev gettext libtiff-dev libpnglite-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev \
libcairo2 libcairo2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline6 \
libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev txt2tags libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-sql \
libqt4-qt3support lsb-qt4 qt4-designer qt4-dev-tools qt4-doc \
qt4-qtconfig libapt-pkg-perl resolvconf libjasper-dev ruby subversion \
ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora libffmpegthumbnailer-dev libavcodec-dev libxmu-dev \
libavformat-dev libswscale-dev checkinstall libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin python-gdal

CFLAGS="-Wall" ./configure --with-cxx --with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos --without-postgres \
--with-nls --with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL/ \
--with-x --with-fftw --with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 --with-sqlite \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config --with-wx=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-cairo --enable-largefile

make

sudo make install
</pre>

===== Mandriva =====

Installation of dependencies (urpmi will ask you a few more):

'''Mandriva 2009:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit)
# as root
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
mesagl1-devel mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

'''Mandriva 2010:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit) - see also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/current/SPECS/ SPEC] file
# as root
# installation of PROJ and GDAL
urpmi proj proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gcc-gfortran lib64openssl1.0.0 \
lib64openssl1.0.0-devel postgresql8.4-devel lib64pq8.4

# installation of compilation environment
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
lib64mesagl1-devel lib64mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

Then, to configure GRASS, run (64 bit stuff optional of course):
# as user
./configure \
--enable-64bit --with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-python \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/lib/wxPython/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/libav* /usr/include/libpostproc /usr/include/libswscale" \
--with-motif \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile

# compilation (use -j2 ior -j4 parameter on multi-core CPUs to accelerate):
make

Installation:
su
# this will install into /usr/local/
make install
exit

===== Enterprise Linux =====

Enterprise Linux (EL) and derivatives (that is, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Scientific Linux) is a popular and robust platform for servers and computing-heavy workstations, and is therefore a good fit for GIS specific requirements.

See: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

===== Scientific Linux =====

See Centos

===== CentOS =====

You first need to add the EPEL repository for PROJ.4 and GDAL, see [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F here]

<strike>
Preparation '''Centos 5''' (old):
yum install epel-release

# Note: CentOS 5 comes with Python 2.4 which lacks python-config, hence two extra tweaks are needed.
yum install flex bison zlib-devel tcl-devel tk-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
libtiff-devel libpng-devel sqlite-devel \
mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-libGLw-devel \
mesa-libOSMesa-devel libXmu-devel python-devel gtk2-devel\
ncurses-devel postgresql-devel make
</strike>

Preparation '''Centos 6''' | '''Scientific Linux 6''':
yum install epel-release

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib
# only GRASS GIS 6: install also tcl-devel tk-devel

Preparation '''Centos 7''' | '''Scientific Linux 7''':
yum install epel-release

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
netcdf netcdf-devel blas-devel lapack-devel atlas-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib python-sphinx \
doxygen subversion

'''GRASS GIS 7 compilation and installation'''

[http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ Download source code] (e.g., --> "Download latest 7.0-svn code (SVN))" and configure GRASS 7 (suggestion: save this as script):

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-python \
--with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-openmp \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-fftw \
--with-geos \
--with-netcdf \
--without-ffmpeg \
--without-mysql \
--without-postgres \
--without-odbc \
--without-fftw

Compile:
make
or on a multicore system (number depends of available cores):
make -j4

For a system wide installation, run as root user:
make install
OR simply run it directly from the source code directory (substitute ARCH with i686 or x86_64):

bin.$ARCH/grass70 -gui

In this case, for convenience, add it to the search path:
mkdir $HOME/bin
cd $HOME/bin
# example:
ln -s $HOME/software/grass70_release/bin.i686-pc-linux-gnu/grass70 .

Now use it subsequently with
grass70 -gui

===== Gentoo =====

./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/"

See also http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-geosciences/grass

===== Funtoo =====

The [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Generic_Compilation_and_installation_procedure Generic Compilation & installation procedure] applies also for the [http://www.funtoo.org/ Funtoo] Linux meta-distribution. The following example scripts are provided as a mean to get started.

====== Installing dependencies ======

'''''Following likely needs to be updated!'''''

<source lang="bash">
# # Searching for missing packages, e.g. wxwidgets
# e-file wx-config

# emerge dependecies -- This will take quite some time! Hint: net-libs/webkit-gtk
USE="curl xls fftw gmath motif wxwidgets gml hdf5 jpeg2k mdb netcdf odbc ogdi opencl postgres spatialite sqlite szip" \
emerge -av proj geos gdal \
xerces \
mesa motif libGLw \
tcl tk clang llvm byacc opencl \
unixODBC postgresql-base ogdi spatialite \
libgeotiff hdf5 netcdf \
eselect-postgresql eselect-opencl eselect-wxwidgets \
wxpython pyopengl \
fftw

# before compiling
eselect python set 1 # probably #1 is python 2.7
</source>

====== Example Scripts ======

A simple configuration and compilation

<ul>
<source lang="bash">
# clean previous configuration
make distclean

# update source code
svn up

# renice! source: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2013-May/068229.html>
renice +17 -p $$

# configure
./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
2>&1 | tee config_log.txt

# compile
time make -j13
</source>
</ul>

An attempt for a complete configuration and compilation '''checking'''. In addition, this script times each of the executed commands (need for scrolling back!).

<ul>
<source lang="bash">
# clean previous configuration
time make distclean

# update
time svn up

# renice! source: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2013-May/068229.html>
renice +17 -p $$

# configure
CFLAGS="-ggdb -march=native -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" \
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-includes=/usr/include/ --with-libs=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-proj \
--with-proj-includes=/usr/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-cairo \
--with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
--without-ffmpeg \
--with-python=yes --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--with-odbc=yes \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes="/usr/include/mysql" --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-postgres=yes --with-postgresql=yes --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
--with-opencl --with-openmp --with-pthread \
--with-lapack \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-regex \
--with-nls \
--with-jpeg \
--with-tiff \
--with-png \
--with-netcdf \
--without-opendwg \
--enable-largefile=yes \
2>&1 | tee config_log.txt

# check "make"
time make check
</source>
</ul>

===== Fedora =====

====== GRASS GIS 6 on Fedora ======

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS 6 source code (F16-F21):

yum install proj-devel gdal-devel sqlite-devel ffmpeg-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel tcl-devel tk-devel geos \
fftw-devel libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 subversion

''Note 1: that currently gdal-devel has (too) many dependencies and may lead to a massive download of extra packages (200 on a fresh Fedora 16 install). Hopefully solved in later Fedora versions.''

''Note 2: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 6: [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ release package] - [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS6.4 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an ''example'' how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-geos \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc \
--with-fftw

Extra: If you also want '''FFMPEG''' support - it requires 'yum install fftw-devel'. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS 6 and enjoy!

====== GRASS GIS 7 on Fedora ======

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS 7 source code (F20-F22):

dnf install gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 \
proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gdal-python sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
fftw-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel geos geos-devel \
libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib-wx subversion doxygen python-sphinx

# optionally also: netcdf-devel postgresql-devel

''Note 1: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 7: [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS7 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an example how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-geos \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc

''Extra 1:'' If you also want '''FFMPEG support''' - it requires 'dnf install fftw-devel' from the rpmfusion-free repository. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

''Extra 2:'' For '''LAPACK/BLAS support''' (addons i.spec.unmix, v.kriging etc), install "dnf install lapack lapack-devel blas blas-devel atlas atlas-devel". Then add to the configuration lines above:
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS 7 and enjoy!

===== openSUSE =====

To build GRASS on openSUSE:

RPM packages to be installed:
<source lang="bash">
sudo zypper install bison flex freetype2-devel fftw3-devel gcc-c++ \
libgdal-devel libgeos-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel \
man proj libproj-devel readline-devel netcdf-devel ncurses-devel \
mysql-devel postgresql-devel sqlite-devel unixODBC-devel \
tcl-devel tk-devel xorg-x11-Mesa-devel libXmu-devel \
python-numpy python-dateutil python-devel python-opengl \
python-wxWidgets python-xml python-dateutil wxWidgets-devel \
zlib-devel doxygen python-sphinx
</source>

Source code configuration:
<source lang="bash">
./configure \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-cxx \
--with-lapack=yes \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-netcdf \
--with-curses \
--with-geos \
--with-nls \
--with-sqlite \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-odbc \
--with-python
</source>

Then compile with "make [-j2]".

===== Arch Linux =====

The easiest/fastest way is to build GRASS GIS using AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=grass (msieczka: I would recommend my set of PKBUILDs - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=czk&SeB=m. They are most feature-rich, up-to-date and allow to have various versions installed alongside each other without conflicts.)

But if you want to compile it yourself you have to keep in mind that in Arch Linux the default Python version 3.

python --version

Python 3.3.1

Therefore, to build GRASS GIS (version 7 in this example), we can use either use virtualenv or symlink python2 and python2-config in a given directory.
Let's use the latter approach

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 $HOME/usr/bin/python
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2-config $HOME/usr/bin/python-config

We can now start building GRASS 7

export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH && \
./configure \
--enable-debug \
--enable-64bit \
--with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-readline \
--with-zlib-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-freetype=yes \
--with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--enable-largefile=yes \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-cairo \
--with-odbc \
--with-pthread \
--with-liblas=/usr/local/bin/liblas-config \
--with-fftw-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-fftw-libs=/usr/lib/ \
--with-tcltk-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql/internal" \
--with-postgres-libs="/usr/include/postgresql/internal/libpq" \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-python=yes \
--with-liblas \
--with-netcdf

Now let's compile and install it

make
sudo make install

Now the final step required to use GRASS with python2 is to create a bash script "grass" (or the name you want)

#!/bin/bash
export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH
python2 /usr/local/bin/grass70

And make it executable and copy it somewhere in the PATH

chmod+x grass
sudo cp grass /usr/local/bin

It's done, you can enjoy GRASS 7 in Arch, just type "grass" (or the name you gave to the script) in the terminal to launch it.

===== RPM SPEC files =====
* ... can be found in the source code, rpm/ directory,
* or [https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=grass&project=Application%3AGeo OpenSuSe]
* or [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/grass Fedora]
* or [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/ Mandriva] (there are also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/proj/ proj4], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/geos/ geos], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal/ gdal], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal-grass/ gdal-grass-plugin], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/qgis/ qgis] etc)
* ...

===== Zaurus =====

... see [http://wiki.debian.org/?GrassGISonZaurus here] for instructions

==== Mac OSX ====

===== Conventional installation =====
* see the source/macosx readme ([http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/macosx/ReadMe.rtf Trac link])
* main page [[Compiling on MacOSX]]
* main page [[Packaging on MacOSX]]
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/mac-osx/ official download site]
* [http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#build_scripts build scripts for dependencies]
* solving errors at starting GRASS GIS: [[MacOSX GRASS errors]]
=====[[Compiling on MacOSX using homebrew]] =====

==== FreeBSD / NetBSD ====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the respective package managing tools (pkg_add for FreeBSD and pkgin install for NetBSD) and for recent *BSD versions most likely installed by default.

GRASS 6.x and GRASS 7 should compile on FreeBSD 8.0 or later and NetBSD 5.0 or later (maybe also on updated NetBSD 4.x).

It is highly recommended to install GDAL/OGR and PROJ4 first. These libraries and tools are available as [http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ ports for FreeBSD] and [http://www.pkgsrc.org/ packages for NetBSD].

Optional functionality is listed with ''./configure --help'', and related libraries and tools might need to be installed first.

==== Solaris ====

* ''2008 Oct 15'': see [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2008-October/047093.html this post on the grass mailing list]

===== 11 SPARC/i86pc =====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the Solaris package manager.

Most dependencies are available through the Solaris package manager. GDAL and proj4 can either be compiled from source or installed e.g. from [http://www.opencsw.org/ OpenCSW]. If packages are installed from OpenCSW, the linker flags need to be set with

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R/opt/csw/lib -L/opt/csw/lib -Wl,-R/opt/csw/gxx/lib -L/opt/csw/gxx/lib"

See also the [http://www.opencsw.org/use-it/ OpenCSW documentation].

===== 10 SPARC/i86pc =====

* get gcc compiler and tools. There are several sources: Solaris Companion CD (SFW pkg, installs in /opt/sfw/), Blastwave ([http://www.blastwave.org], CSW pkg, installs in /opt/csw/) or Sunfreeware ([http://www.sunfreeware.com], SMC pkg, installs in /usr/local/).
Needed Packages from Sunfreeware: SMCbinut, SMCbison, SMCcoreu, SMCfindu, SMCflex, SMCgawk, SMCgcc, SMCgrep, SMCgzip, SMCless, SMClibt, SMClicon, SMCmake, SMCncurs, SMCproj, SMCsed, SMCtar, SMCtcl, SMCtiff, SMCtk, SMCunzip, SMCzlib.

* compile and install fftw-library ([http://www.fftw.org]). You need to re-compile the library with:

./configure --with-pic --enable-shared; make ; make install.

The pre-built packages don't work.

* compile and install gdal library (see documentation of gdal, [http://www.gdal.org]).

* compile and install any additional libraries (e. g. GEOS, [http://geos.refractions.net]).

* set compiler flags and path. e. g.:

# on ultra-sparc machine:
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS PATH

Path has to be changed for the packages (Sunfreeware: /usr/local/bin, Solaris Companion: /opt/sfw/bin, Blastwave: /opt/csw/bin).

* Next configure, e. g.:

./configure --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql/ \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib --with-postgres=yes \
--with-includes=/usr/local/include/ncurses

If you use n(ew)curses, you have to include the path /usr/local/include/ncurses.

then:

make
su
make install

If the shared libraries are not found at runtime of the modules, use 'crle' to add the paths of the libraries for the dynamic linker, e. g. as root:

crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/X11/lib

Be careful not to omit a library path, the system may be unusable if you forget the /lib path.

==== AIX ====

A recent [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81) and GNU coreutils are required. These are available with the [http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/download.html IBM AIX toolbox] or through third-party AIX software repositories, e.g. [http://www.bullfreeware.com/ bullfreeware] and [http://www.perzl.org/aix/ perzl.org]. Note that 'make' does not work, only 'gmake' works.

General instructions to compile on AIX are e.g. [http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Instructions here]

On AIX, compilation results by default in 32 bit applications and static libraries. The [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu.html IBM documentation] explains how to build 64 bit applications and shared libraries with GCC.

'''GRASS 6: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''
* ''see [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/32667 this mailing list thread]''

Mike wrote in 2009:

After attempting all the suggestions, I finally used
--disable-shared on the configure command, and all but
a handful of modules successfully compiled. I was able to
individually address the ones that failed through Makefile
edits and several small source code/header file edits.

The environment variables and configure command that worked were:
<pre>
# xlc compiler:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH
export OBJECT_MODE=64
export LIBICONV=/opt/freeware
export CC="xlc_r -q64"
export CFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export CXX="xlC_r -q64"
export CXXFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export AR="ar -X64"
export F77="xlf_r -q64"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/afs/isis/pkg/libpng/include -I/usr/local/include -I$LIBICONV/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L$LIBICONV/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lc"

./configure --prefix=/afs/isis/pkg/grass-6.4.0 \
--enable-64bit \
--disable-shared \
--with-includes="/usr/include/fontconfig /usr/include/X11 /usr/include/X11/Xft /usr/include/X11/ext" \
--x-includes=/usr/include/X11 \
--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib \
--with-fftw-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/include \
--with-fftw-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/lib \
--with-gdal=/afs/isis/pkg/gdal/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/include \
--with-proj-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/lib \
--with-proj-share=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/local/include \
--with-tcltk-libs=/usr/local/lib \
--with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the GNU gcc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* if needed, [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* if needed (the name is often 'gmake' and not 'make') [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 5.x:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
CFLAGS='-ansi -D_ALL_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -Dinline=' ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 7.x:
<pre>
## AIX 7.x
export CC="gcc"
export CXX="g++"
PREFIX=$HOME/bin

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-bsvr4,-R,/opt/freeware/lib -L/opt/freeware/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/freeware/include" ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--enable-largefile \
--enable-shared \
--with-includes=/opt/freeware/include --with-libs=/opt/freeware/lib \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-gdal=$PREFIX/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib --with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include \
--with-png=no \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-opengl=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

==== MS-Windows ====

===== MS-Windows/Cygwin =====

* See the [[Cygwin]] wiki pages

===== MS-Windows/native =====

====== Compile ======

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.4.x + 7.x)
* <strike>[http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.3.x) </strike>
* See/adapt [http://blog.qgis.org/node/124 idea] for unattended install of QGIS (et al) from [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ OSGeo4W] from the QuantumGIS Blog.

See also [[WinGRASS Current Status]] for latest updates.

=== Common problems and solutions ===

During compilation, error can occur if certain packages are not installed. Here a list of problems with solution:

* error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
** this suggests that you don't have the X headers installed
** Solution: Install the libx11-dev package

* error: g.list: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal1.6.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** this error appears in the shell right after the user clicks GUI's "Start GRASS" button. The GUI shows an error about geographic extent and gets closed afterwards.
** It happens when you launch bin.i686 executable on 64bit system. Be careful and choose the right architecture.

=== Static compilation ===

In order to get static rather than dynamically linked binaries, configure like this:

./configure --disable-shared --enable-static

This will however break the wxGUI and GRASS 7 completely because "ctypes" wants to link against shared libs, or there is something in the static libs that "ctypes" does not like.

=== Optimization ===

GCC and other compilers support [http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.3/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options optimization]

If you would like to set compiler optimisations, for a possibly faster binary, type (don't enter a ";" anywhere):

CFLAGS=-O ./configure
or,
setenv CFLAGS -O
./configure

whichever works on your shell. Use -O2 instead of -O if your compiler supports this (note: O is the letter, not zero). Using the "gcc" compiler, you can also specify processor specific flags (examples, please suggest better settings to us):

CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O2" # AMD Athlon processor with code optimisations
CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10" # AMD Phenom II X4 64bit processor with gcc >=4.3
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium" # Intel Pentium processor
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4" # Intel Pentium4 processor
CFLAGS="-O2 -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -minline-all-stringops" # Intel XEON 64bit processor
CFLAGS="-mtune=nocona -m64 -minline-all-stringops" # Intel Pentium 64bit processor

To find out optional CFLAGS for your platform, enter:
gcc -dumpspecs

See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/

A real fast GRASS version (and small binaries) will be created with LDFLAGS set to "stripping" (but this disables debugging):

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=<cpu_see_above> -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure

=== Configure options and their meanings ===

For configure there are many options and some GRASS modules are built only if some options are set. Here are listed common configuration options with short explanation.

* --prefix=/path - Sets path where GRASS will be installed. GRASS will reside in /path/grass-version.
* --enable-largefile - Enables large (>2Gb on 32bit systems) support. For current large file support status look at [[Large File Support]] page.
* --with-cxx - Enables compilation of C++ code. Required for r.terraflow module.
* --with-readline - Enables readline support. If readline is enabled, you can use its history/editing facilities when entering r.mapcalc expressions on stdin.
* --with-glw - Enables GLw support. The GLw library provides OpenGL "canvas" widgets for Athena and Motif.

That switch is unnecessary for normal compilation. It's only
required for r3.showdspf, which isn't normally built; if you
want it, you have build it manually
(e.g. "make -C raster3d/r3.showdspf").
As similar functionality is now provided by NVIZ, r3.showdspf
is deprecated.
r3.showdspf uses the Motif widget (so you also need a
Motif library, e.g. Lesstif or OpenMotif).
[http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grassuser/2006-December/037475.html Glynn Clements at GRASS-user mailing list]

=== Parallelized compilation on multi-core CPUs ===

You can dramatically accelerate the compilation of the GRASS code with the -j flag of "make" if you have a multi-core CPU system. This determines the maximum number of jobs to have running at once, so cores don't have to sit idle waiting for jobs on other cores to complete. A good rule of thumb for this value is <tt>number_of_cores * 1.5</tt>, but note that setting any higher than the actual number of cores will only affect the timing slightly. For example, on a dual-core processor:
make -j 4



== GRASS-GDAL plugin ==

* see [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]]

== Addons ==

Please note that the installation of [[AddOns/GRASS_6|Addons]] can be easily done with the {{cmd|g.extension}} manager. The compile instructions below are aiming at own development.

=== Compiled modules ===

This is the general way which works for C modules as well as scripts (Python or Shell/Bash modules) which has HTML documentation.

'''Requirements:'''

Either:
* a binary GRASS package, or
* source code which has been prepared with:
./configure [opionally flags]
make libs

Each of the [[GRASS_AddOns|addon]] modules should come with a Makefile. To compile it, just run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/

Note that the <tt>/path/to/grass64</tt> has to be absolute, not relative.

If using Bash it may be useful to set that up as an alias:
alias gmake64='make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/'

Installation (perhaps requires "sudo"):
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/ install

Note: Compiled addons may require a re-compilation if you changed/updated your GRASS standard binaries.

==== If binary comes with a -dev package ====

''(work in progress, this text states how it eventually will be :)''
Nowadays one does not need to the source code, nor compiling GRASS by oneself to be able to add add-ons. On Debian, you can just install the grass-dev package and then run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/usr/lib/grass64/ INST_DIR=/usr/lib/grass64/

The grass-dev package essentially provides GRASS's <tt>include</tt> header files and Make configuration files.

=== Scripts ===

If the addon module is a script, it is sufficient to copy it into the (GRASS binaries) path somewhere. Alternatively, install addons into a separate GRASS addons binaries/scripts directory which is easier to maintain. It avoids getting clobbered every time you reinstall GRASS. To use these separately stored scripts, set and export the GRASS_ADDON_PATH environment variable before starting GRASS and it will automatically be added to the module search path (see the {{cmd|variables}} help page). To simplify this, do for example:

# add in $HOME/.bashrc:
GRASS_ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/grass/addons/
export GRASS_ADDON_PATH

Make sure that the script is executable, then just call it in GRASS typing the filename. Python scripts need to be called writing the extension as well, like:

GRASS 6.5.svn (spearfish60):~ > v.krige.py

[[Category:Development]]
[[Category:Documentation]]
[[Category:Installation]]

Compile and Install

2016-02-08T15:20:05Z

⚠️Plantarum: /* Debian */ added package list necessary to install on Debian Jessie (current testing release)

'''Disclaimer''': This page explains how to turn the GRASS GIS source code into an installable binary package ("compilation") for different operating systems. If you just want to get ready-to-use binaries, go [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/ here], otherwise read on...

== How to do compilation and installation of GRASS GIS? ==

Here we explain the procedure to compile GRASS from SVN, but it also applies to official GRASS 6 releases.

''For installation of precompiled binary packages, see the main [[Installation Guide]].''

For detailed information on compilation, please see the [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/INSTALL INSTALL] file in the source code.

=== Prerequisites ===

==== Extra libraries ====
GRASS needs at least two extra libraries: PROJ and GDAL/OGR

''Note: if you want to have DBMS support in GDAL (subsequently in GRASS) you have to perform the "Optional" steps below as well.''

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4] for management of projections (with proj-datumgrid-1.3.zip support)
* Optional: [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ GEOS]
* Optional: [http://www.postgresql.org PostgreSQL], [http://www.mysql.org mySQL], [http://www.unixodbc.org unixODBC], [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite] (SQLite is needed for [[QGIS]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR] for reading and writing various GIS data formats (interoperability)

You have to install these two libraries '''first''' (see below how to get them precompiled for your system).

It is easiest to obtain a prepackaged version of these libraries (e.g., .rpm; .deb) for your particular operating system and run the corresponding package installation (e.g., rpm -Uhv packagename.rpm; apt-get) in a terminal window. Take care to also install the development packages of these libraries (...-devel packages). If there is no prepackage version, then you will have to download the source code (see links above, source code packages usually ends in .tar.gz or .zip) and compile it (you must have a C compiler installed as part of your operating system). The Web sites show the steps to compile the libraries.

Other libraries needed to run GRASS are listed on the {{website|grass64/source/REQUIREMENTS.html|requirements page}}.

To compile, you will also need the respective "-devel" packages.

==== Download GRASS GIS source code ====
Then [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ download the GRASS GIS source code] of course.

=== Generic Compilation and installation procedure ===

* It is wise that compilation processes are carried out as a normal user: If you want to get the source code in a place where you do not have write permissions (e.g. in /usr/local/src/) just follow this:
cd /usr/local/src/
su -c 'mkdir grass6'
su -c 'chown yourlogin:yourgroup grass6'

Otherwise if you have permissions just continue as a normal user:
cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout ...

* do a code checkout from the SVN source code repository
: checkout the latest GRASS 6.x from SVN (see: {{twiki|DownloadSource}})

* in the grass6 directory, you will find the precious INSTALL file, open it with your favourite pager/editor and read it carefully!

* run configure with parameters to adapt the compile process to your own system. To see what options can be passed to it, run:
./configure --help | less


It may (!) look like this:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/include/pgsql/libpq \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj

You may have to explicitly state the path for certain packages (i.e., gdal). The Unix 'locate' command will come in handy for finding the path of the package you need (you may have to run locate as root ex: sudo locate gdal-config).

Please note that the paths mentioned may widely vary due to the distribution used.
See [[Compile_and_Install#Platform_Specific_Notes|Platform Specific Notes]] below.

Depending on your needs it may be a good idea to include debugging hooks.
: See [[GRASS_Debugging#Compile_Time_Setup]].
CFLAGS="-ggdb -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" ./configure ...

At the end of configuration process you should get report not much different from this:

GRASS is now configured for: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Source directory: /usr/src/grass6
Build directory: /usr/src/grass6
Installation directory: /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn
Startup script in directory: ${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -O2
C++ compiler: c++ -g -O2
FORTRAN compiler:
Building shared libraries: yes
64bit support: no

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
LAPACK support: no
Large File Support (LFS): no
Motif support: no
MySQL support: no
NLS support: no
ODBC support: no
OGR support: yes
OpenGL(R) support: yes
PNG support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: no
SQLite support: no
Tcl/Tk support: yes
TIFF support: yes
X11 support: yes

* Let's compile it (takes a little while...)!
make
* At the end, you should get report not much different from this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Following modules are missing the 'description.html' file in src code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GRASS GIS compilation log
-------------------------
Started compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:18:43 CEST 2006
--
Errors in:
--
Finished compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:43:40 CEST 2006
(In case of errors please change into the directory with error and run 'make')

* If there is any error, change directory to directory with error and run "make" again. Report occuring bug to grass mailing list
* Once the installation process is finished, you're ready to install GRASS system wide.
su -c 'make install'
* enjoy GRASS:
grass64

=== What else? ===

If you want to use [http://www.qgis.org QGIS], then also compile the GRASS-GDAL/OGR plugin. This is also useful to access your GRASS-data
from other application using GDAL/OGR like [http://thuban.intevation.de thuban].
* [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]] (enables QGIS to read GRASS data directly)

=== Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin ===

* See [[Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin]]

=== Platform Specific Notes ===

==== Linux ====

Linux cames in various flavours, i.e. distributions.

===== Debian =====

Read the instructions here:
: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/debian/README.debian

# first install PROJ, GDAL, etc.
cd grass64/
# follow instructions in debian/README.debian
fakeroot buildpackage

* Official [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis DebianGIS] packaging control files:

<strike>
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/trunk/

or

svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/branches/<GRASS Version>
</strike>

Available on git server:
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/grass.git

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/grass.git/

====== GRASS 6.1 on Debian Sarge ======

* [http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/debiangisfiles#compile Compiling GRASS 6.1-CVS on Debian/OldStable (aka 3.1, Sarge)]

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Lenny ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev lesstif2-dev debhelper dpatch libtiff4-dev \
tcl-dev tk-dev libfftw3-dev libxmu-dev libfreetype6-dev autoconf2.13 autotools-dev doxygen \
libmysqlclient15-dev graphviz libsqlite3-dev python-wxgtk2.8 libcairo2-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev \
python-dev libgdal1-dev libgdal1-1.5.0 libproj-dev libproj0 proj-data mysql

# Important: avoid using CFLAGS="... -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" (also on later Debian versions), see {{trac|1684}}

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.4/ \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif --with-fftw --with-nls --with-python \
--with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev tcl-dev tk-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libatlas-dev libgegl-dev doxygen postgresql mysql-server \
libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev libgeotiff-epsg libxmu-dev libxt-dev libx11-dev

# Important: avoid using CFLAGS="... -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" (also on later Debian versions), see {{trac|1684}}

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-geos \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.6/ \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-fftw \
--with-nls \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-python \
--with-x --x-libraries=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Squeeze ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev python-dev \
g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff4-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev

Download source code:

svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass_trunk

Configure:

cd grass_trunk/
CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-Wall" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--without-tcltk \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite \
--with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.6-config --with-wxwidgets \
--with-geos --with-pthread

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass71

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Wheezy ======

Install needed packages:

# note: cmake and libboost-all-dev only needed for optional libLAS
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev

sudo apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev \
python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev libncurses5-dev libproj-dev \
libreadline-dev libtiff4-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers \
libxt-dev mesa-common-dev proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common \
zlib1g-dev netcdf-bin libatlas-dev libgegl-dev opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 \
libsqlite3-dev postgresql python-sphinx python-gdal

Download and Install libLAS
wget http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.7.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf libLAS-1.7.0.tar.gz
cd libLAS-1.7.0/
mkdir makefiles
cd makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ../..

Download of GRASS GIS 7 source code:
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf grass-7.0.0.tar.gz

Configure:
cd grass-7.0.0
CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos --with-blas \
--with-lapack-includes=/usr/lib/lapack --with-liblas=yes \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=yes --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql

# --with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
# --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \

GRASS GIS 7 is now configured (example):

Source directory: /home/user/grass-7.0.0
Build directory: /home/user/grass-7.0.0
Installation directory: ${prefix}/grass-7.0.0
Startup script in directory:${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused
C++ compiler: c++ -g -Wall
Building shared libraries: yes
OpenGL platform: X11
MacOSX application: no
MacOSX architectures:
MacOSX SDK:
BLAS support: yes
C++ support: yes
Cairo support: yes
DWG support: no
FFTW support: yes
FreeType support: yes
GDAL support: yes
GEOS support: yes
LAPACK support: no
Large File support (LFS): yes
libLAS support: yes
MySQL support: no
NetCDF support: yes
NLS support: yes
ODBC support: yes
OGR support: yes
OpenCL support: no
OpenGL support: yes
OpenMP support: yes
PNG support: yes
POSIX thread support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: yes
Regex support: yes
SQLite support: yes
TIFF support: yes
wxWidgets support: yes
X11 support: no

Compile:
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

Launch:
grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 \
autotools-dev python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libgegl-dev doxygen python-sphinx \
postgresql libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev mysql-server \
libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack3gf liblapack-dev
# opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 liblas-bin liblas-c-dev python-gdal

Download and compile libLAS (or simply install 'liblas-c-dev ', see above):
wget http://download.osgeo.org/liblas/libLAS-1.8.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf libLAS-1.8.0.tar.bz2
mkdir libLAS-1.8.0/makefiles
cd libLAS-1.8.0/makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../
make
sudo make install

Download and compile GRASS 7:
# (check there for later version)
wget http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
tar xzfv grass-7.0.0.tar.gz
cd grass-7.0.0
CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--with-cxx --enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas/ \
--with-netcdf=/usr/bin/nc-config --with-odbc=yes \
--with-openmp=yes --with-pthread=no --with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib/postgresql \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 \
autotools-dev python-dev g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libgdal1i libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev \
netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev libgegl-dev doxygen python-sphinx \
postgresql libgeotiff-dev libblas-dev mysql-server \
libatlas-dev libblas-dev liblapack3 liblapack-dev \
opencl-headers ocl-icd-libopencl1 liblas-bin liblas-c-dev python-gdal

===== Ubuntu =====

There is a dedicated page on how to [[Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu | Compile the GRASS GIS source code & install it in Ubuntu]].

===== Linux Mint =====

Install packages needed for compilation:
<pre>
sudo apt-get install build-essential flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ \
cmake ccache python python-dev python-qt4 python-qt4-dev python-opengl \
python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk2.8 python-dateutil \
libgsl0-dev python-numpy wx2.8-headers wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dbg libwxbase2.8-dev libwxbase2.8-dbg libncurses5-dev \
zlib1g-dev gettext libtiff-dev libpnglite-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev \
libcairo2 libcairo2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline6 \
libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev txt2tags libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-sql \
libqt4-qt3support lsb-qt4 qt4-designer qt4-dev-tools qt4-doc \
qt4-qtconfig libapt-pkg-perl resolvconf libjasper-dev ruby subversion \
ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora libffmpegthumbnailer-dev libavcodec-dev libxmu-dev \
libavformat-dev libswscale-dev checkinstall libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin python-gdal

CFLAGS="-Wall" ./configure --with-cxx --with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos --without-postgres \
--with-nls --with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL/ \
--with-x --with-fftw --with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 --with-sqlite \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config --with-wx=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-cairo --enable-largefile

make

sudo make install
</pre>

===== Mandriva =====

Installation of dependencies (urpmi will ask you a few more):

'''Mandriva 2009:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit)
# as root
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
mesagl1-devel mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

'''Mandriva 2010:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit) - see also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/current/SPECS/ SPEC] file
# as root
# installation of PROJ and GDAL
urpmi proj proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gcc-gfortran lib64openssl1.0.0 \
lib64openssl1.0.0-devel postgresql8.4-devel lib64pq8.4

# installation of compilation environment
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
lib64mesagl1-devel lib64mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

Then, to configure GRASS, run (64 bit stuff optional of course):
# as user
./configure \
--enable-64bit --with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-python \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/lib/wxPython/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/libav* /usr/include/libpostproc /usr/include/libswscale" \
--with-motif \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile

# compilation (use -j2 ior -j4 parameter on multi-core CPUs to accelerate):
make

Installation:
su
# this will install into /usr/local/
make install
exit

===== Enterprise Linux =====

Enterprise Linux (EL) and derivatives (that is, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Scientific Linux) is a popular and robust platform for servers and computing-heavy workstations, and is therefore a good fit for GIS specific requirements.

See: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

===== Scientific Linux =====

See Centos

===== CentOS =====

You first need to add the EPEL repository for PROJ.4 and GDAL, see [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F here]

<strike>
Preparation '''Centos 5''' (old):
yum install epel-release

# Note: CentOS 5 comes with Python 2.4 which lacks python-config, hence two extra tweaks are needed.
yum install flex bison zlib-devel tcl-devel tk-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
libtiff-devel libpng-devel sqlite-devel \
mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-libGLw-devel \
mesa-libOSMesa-devel libXmu-devel python-devel gtk2-devel\
ncurses-devel postgresql-devel make
</strike>

Preparation '''Centos 6''' | '''Scientific Linux 6''':
yum install epel-release

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib
# only GRASS GIS 6: install also tcl-devel tk-devel

Preparation '''Centos 7''' | '''Scientific Linux 7''':
yum install epel-release

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
netcdf netcdf-devel blas-devel lapack-devel atlas-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib python-sphinx \
doxygen subversion

'''GRASS GIS 7 compilation and installation'''

[http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ Download source code] (e.g., --> "Download latest 7.0-svn code (SVN))" and configure GRASS 7 (suggestion: save this as script):

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-python \
--with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-openmp \
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-fftw \
--with-geos \
--with-netcdf \
--without-ffmpeg \
--without-mysql \
--without-postgres \
--without-odbc \
--without-fftw

Compile:
make
or on a multicore system (number depends of available cores):
make -j4

For a system wide installation, run as root user:
make install
OR simply run it directly from the source code directory (substitute ARCH with i686 or x86_64):

bin.$ARCH/grass70 -gui

In this case, for convenience, add it to the search path:
mkdir $HOME/bin
cd $HOME/bin
# example:
ln -s $HOME/software/grass70_release/bin.i686-pc-linux-gnu/grass70 .

Now use it subsequently with
grass70 -gui

===== Gentoo =====

./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/"

See also http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-geosciences/grass

===== Funtoo =====

The [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Generic_Compilation_and_installation_procedure Generic Compilation & installation procedure] applies also for the [http://www.funtoo.org/ Funtoo] Linux meta-distribution. The following example scripts are provided as a mean to get started.

====== Installing dependencies ======

'''''Following likely needs to be updated!'''''

<source lang="bash">
# # Searching for missing packages, e.g. wxwidgets
# e-file wx-config

# emerge dependecies -- This will take quite some time! Hint: net-libs/webkit-gtk
USE="curl xls fftw gmath motif wxwidgets gml hdf5 jpeg2k mdb netcdf odbc ogdi opencl postgres spatialite sqlite szip" \
emerge -av proj geos gdal \
xerces \
mesa motif libGLw \
tcl tk clang llvm byacc opencl \
unixODBC postgresql-base ogdi spatialite \
libgeotiff hdf5 netcdf \
eselect-postgresql eselect-opencl eselect-wxwidgets \
wxpython pyopengl \
fftw

# before compiling
eselect python set 1 # probably #1 is python 2.7
</source>

====== Example Scripts ======

A simple configuration and compilation

<ul>
<source lang="bash">
# clean previous configuration
make distclean

# update source code
svn up

# renice! source: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2013-May/068229.html>
renice +17 -p $$

# configure
./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
2>&1 | tee config_log.txt

# compile
time make -j13
</source>
</ul>

An attempt for a complete configuration and compilation '''checking'''. In addition, this script times each of the executed commands (need for scrolling back!).

<ul>
<source lang="bash">
# clean previous configuration
time make distclean

# update
time svn up

# renice! source: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2013-May/068229.html>
renice +17 -p $$

# configure
CFLAGS="-ggdb -march=native -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" \
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-includes=/usr/include/ --with-libs=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-proj \
--with-proj-includes=/usr/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-cairo \
--with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
--without-ffmpeg \
--with-python=yes --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--with-odbc=yes \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes="/usr/include/mysql" --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-postgres=yes --with-postgresql=yes --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
--with-opencl --with-openmp --with-pthread \
--with-lapack \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-regex \
--with-nls \
--with-jpeg \
--with-tiff \
--with-png \
--with-netcdf \
--without-opendwg \
--enable-largefile=yes \
2>&1 | tee config_log.txt

# check "make"
time make check
</source>
</ul>

===== Fedora =====

====== GRASS GIS 6 on Fedora ======

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS 6 source code (F16-F21):

yum install proj-devel gdal-devel sqlite-devel ffmpeg-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel tcl-devel tk-devel geos \
fftw-devel libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 subversion

''Note 1: that currently gdal-devel has (too) many dependencies and may lead to a massive download of extra packages (200 on a fresh Fedora 16 install). Hopefully solved in later Fedora versions.''

''Note 2: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 6: [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ release package] - [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS6.4 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an ''example'' how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-geos \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc \
--with-fftw

Extra: If you also want '''FFMPEG''' support - it requires 'yum install fftw-devel'. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS 6 and enjoy!

====== GRASS GIS 7 on Fedora ======

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS 7 source code (F20-F22):

dnf install gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 \
proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gdal-python sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
fftw-devel mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel geos geos-devel \
libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib-wx subversion doxygen python-sphinx

# optionally also: netcdf-devel postgresql-devel

''Note 1: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 7: [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS7 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an example how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-geos \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-cairo --with-cairo-ldflags=-lfontconfig \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc

''Extra 1:'' If you also want '''FFMPEG support''' - it requires 'dnf install fftw-devel' from the rpmfusion-free repository. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

''Extra 2:'' For '''LAPACK/BLAS support''' (addons i.spec.unmix, v.kriging etc), install "dnf install lapack lapack-devel blas blas-devel atlas atlas-devel". Then add to the configuration lines above:
--with-blas --with-blas-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \
--with-lapack --with-lapack-includes=/usr/include/atlas-x86_64-base/ \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS 7 and enjoy!

===== openSUSE =====

To build GRASS on openSUSE:

RPM packages to be installed:
<source lang="bash">
sudo zypper install bison flex freetype2-devel fftw3-devel gcc-c++ \
libgdal-devel libgeos-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel \
man proj libproj-devel readline-devel netcdf-devel ncurses-devel \
mysql-devel postgresql-devel sqlite-devel unixODBC-devel \
tcl-devel tk-devel xorg-x11-Mesa-devel libXmu-devel \
python-numpy python-dateutil python-devel python-opengl \
python-wxWidgets python-xml python-dateutil wxWidgets-devel \
zlib-devel doxygen python-sphinx
</source>

Source code configuration:
<source lang="bash">
./configure \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-cxx \
--with-lapack=yes \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-netcdf \
--with-curses \
--with-geos \
--with-nls \
--with-sqlite \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-odbc \
--with-python
</source>

Then compile with "make [-j2]".

===== Arch Linux =====

The easiest/fastest way is to build GRASS GIS using AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=grass (msieczka: I would recommend my set of PKBUILDs - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=czk&SeB=m. They are most feature-rich, up-to-date and allow to have various versions installed alongside each other without conflicts.)

But if you want to compile it yourself you have to keep in mind that in Arch Linux the default Python version 3.

python --version

Python 3.3.1

Therefore, to build GRASS GIS (version 7 in this example), we can use either use virtualenv or symlink python2 and python2-config in a given directory.
Let's use the latter approach

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 $HOME/usr/bin/python
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2-config $HOME/usr/bin/python-config

We can now start building GRASS 7

export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH && \
./configure \
--enable-debug \
--enable-64bit \
--with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-readline \
--with-zlib-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-freetype=yes \
--with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--enable-largefile=yes \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-cairo \
--with-odbc \
--with-pthread \
--with-liblas=/usr/local/bin/liblas-config \
--with-fftw-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-fftw-libs=/usr/lib/ \
--with-tcltk-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql/internal" \
--with-postgres-libs="/usr/include/postgresql/internal/libpq" \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-python=yes \
--with-liblas \
--with-netcdf

Now let's compile and install it

make
sudo make install

Now the final step required to use GRASS with python2 is to create a bash script "grass" (or the name you want)

#!/bin/bash
export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH
python2 /usr/local/bin/grass70

And make it executable and copy it somewhere in the PATH

chmod+x grass
sudo cp grass /usr/local/bin

It's done, you can enjoy GRASS 7 in Arch, just type "grass" (or the name you gave to the script) in the terminal to launch it.

===== RPM SPEC files =====
* ... can be found in the source code, rpm/ directory,
* or [https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=grass&project=Application%3AGeo OpenSuSe]
* or [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/grass Fedora]
* or [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/ Mandriva] (there are also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/proj/ proj4], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/geos/ geos], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal/ gdal], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal-grass/ gdal-grass-plugin], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/qgis/ qgis] etc)
* ...

===== Zaurus =====

... see [http://wiki.debian.org/?GrassGISonZaurus here] for instructions

==== Mac OSX ====

===== Conventional installation =====
* see the source/macosx readme ([http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/macosx/ReadMe.rtf Trac link])
* main page [[Compiling on MacOSX]]
* main page [[Packaging on MacOSX]]
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/mac-osx/ official download site]
* [http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#build_scripts build scripts for dependencies]
* solving errors at starting GRASS GIS: [[MacOSX GRASS errors]]
=====[[Compiling on MacOSX using homebrew]] =====

==== FreeBSD / NetBSD ====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the respective package managing tools (pkg_add for FreeBSD and pkgin install for NetBSD) and for recent *BSD versions most likely installed by default.

GRASS 6.x and GRASS 7 should compile on FreeBSD 8.0 or later and NetBSD 5.0 or later (maybe also on updated NetBSD 4.x).

It is highly recommended to install GDAL/OGR and PROJ4 first. These libraries and tools are available as [http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ ports for FreeBSD] and [http://www.pkgsrc.org/ packages for NetBSD].

Optional functionality is listed with ''./configure --help'', and related libraries and tools might need to be installed first.

==== Solaris ====

* ''2008 Oct 15'': see [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2008-October/047093.html this post on the grass mailing list]

===== 11 SPARC/i86pc =====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the Solaris package manager.

Most dependencies are available through the Solaris package manager. GDAL and proj4 can either be compiled from source or installed e.g. from [http://www.opencsw.org/ OpenCSW]. If packages are installed from OpenCSW, the linker flags need to be set with

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R/opt/csw/lib -L/opt/csw/lib -Wl,-R/opt/csw/gxx/lib -L/opt/csw/gxx/lib"

See also the [http://www.opencsw.org/use-it/ OpenCSW documentation].

===== 10 SPARC/i86pc =====

* get gcc compiler and tools. There are several sources: Solaris Companion CD (SFW pkg, installs in /opt/sfw/), Blastwave ([http://www.blastwave.org], CSW pkg, installs in /opt/csw/) or Sunfreeware ([http://www.sunfreeware.com], SMC pkg, installs in /usr/local/).
Needed Packages from Sunfreeware: SMCbinut, SMCbison, SMCcoreu, SMCfindu, SMCflex, SMCgawk, SMCgcc, SMCgrep, SMCgzip, SMCless, SMClibt, SMClicon, SMCmake, SMCncurs, SMCproj, SMCsed, SMCtar, SMCtcl, SMCtiff, SMCtk, SMCunzip, SMCzlib.

* compile and install fftw-library ([http://www.fftw.org]). You need to re-compile the library with:

./configure --with-pic --enable-shared; make ; make install.

The pre-built packages don't work.

* compile and install gdal library (see documentation of gdal, [http://www.gdal.org]).

* compile and install any additional libraries (e. g. GEOS, [http://geos.refractions.net]).

* set compiler flags and path. e. g.:

# on ultra-sparc machine:
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS PATH

Path has to be changed for the packages (Sunfreeware: /usr/local/bin, Solaris Companion: /opt/sfw/bin, Blastwave: /opt/csw/bin).

* Next configure, e. g.:

./configure --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql/ \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib --with-postgres=yes \
--with-includes=/usr/local/include/ncurses

If you use n(ew)curses, you have to include the path /usr/local/include/ncurses.

then:

make
su
make install

If the shared libraries are not found at runtime of the modules, use 'crle' to add the paths of the libraries for the dynamic linker, e. g. as root:

crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/X11/lib

Be careful not to omit a library path, the system may be unusable if you forget the /lib path.

==== AIX ====

A recent [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81) and GNU coreutils are required. These are available with the [http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/download.html IBM AIX toolbox] or through third-party AIX software repositories, e.g. [http://www.bullfreeware.com/ bullfreeware] and [http://www.perzl.org/aix/ perzl.org]. Note that 'make' does not work, only 'gmake' works.

General instructions to compile on AIX are e.g. [http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Instructions here]

On AIX, compilation results by default in 32 bit applications and static libraries. The [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu.html IBM documentation] explains how to build 64 bit applications and shared libraries with GCC.

'''GRASS 6: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''
* ''see [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/32667 this mailing list thread]''

Mike wrote in 2009:

After attempting all the suggestions, I finally used
--disable-shared on the configure command, and all but
a handful of modules successfully compiled. I was able to
individually address the ones that failed through Makefile
edits and several small source code/header file edits.

The environment variables and configure command that worked were:
<pre>
# xlc compiler:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH
export OBJECT_MODE=64
export LIBICONV=/opt/freeware
export CC="xlc_r -q64"
export CFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export CXX="xlC_r -q64"
export CXXFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export AR="ar -X64"
export F77="xlf_r -q64"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/afs/isis/pkg/libpng/include -I/usr/local/include -I$LIBICONV/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L$LIBICONV/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lc"

./configure --prefix=/afs/isis/pkg/grass-6.4.0 \
--enable-64bit \
--disable-shared \
--with-includes="/usr/include/fontconfig /usr/include/X11 /usr/include/X11/Xft /usr/include/X11/ext" \
--x-includes=/usr/include/X11 \
--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib \
--with-fftw-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/include \
--with-fftw-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/lib \
--with-gdal=/afs/isis/pkg/gdal/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/include \
--with-proj-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/lib \
--with-proj-share=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/local/include \
--with-tcltk-libs=/usr/local/lib \
--with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the GNU gcc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* if needed, [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* if needed (the name is often 'gmake' and not 'make') [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 5.x:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
CFLAGS='-ansi -D_ALL_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -Dinline=' ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 7.x:
<pre>
## AIX 7.x
export CC="gcc"
export CXX="g++"
PREFIX=$HOME/bin

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-bsvr4,-R,/opt/freeware/lib -L/opt/freeware/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/freeware/include" ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--enable-largefile \
--enable-shared \
--with-includes=/opt/freeware/include --with-libs=/opt/freeware/lib \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-gdal=$PREFIX/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib --with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include \
--with-png=no \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-opengl=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

==== MS-Windows ====

===== MS-Windows/Cygwin =====

* See the [[Cygwin]] wiki pages

===== MS-Windows/native =====

====== Compile ======

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.4.x + 7.x)
* <strike>[http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.3.x) </strike>
* See/adapt [http://blog.qgis.org/node/124 idea] for unattended install of QGIS (et al) from [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ OSGeo4W] from the QuantumGIS Blog.

See also [[WinGRASS Current Status]] for latest updates.

=== Common problems and solutions ===

During compilation, error can occur if certain packages are not installed. Here a list of problems with solution:

* error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
** this suggests that you don't have the X headers installed
** Solution: Install the libx11-dev package

* error: g.list: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal1.6.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** this error appears in the shell right after the user clicks GUI's "Start GRASS" button. The GUI shows an error about geographic extent and gets closed afterwards.
** It happens when you launch bin.i686 executable on 64bit system. Be careful and choose the right architecture.

=== Static compilation ===

In order to get static rather than dynamically linked binaries, configure like this:

./configure --disable-shared --enable-static

This will however break the wxGUI and GRASS 7 completely because "ctypes" wants to link against shared libs, or there is something in the static libs that "ctypes" does not like.

=== Optimization ===

GCC and other compilers support [http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.3/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options optimization]

If you would like to set compiler optimisations, for a possibly faster binary, type (don't enter a ";" anywhere):

CFLAGS=-O ./configure
or,
setenv CFLAGS -O
./configure

whichever works on your shell. Use -O2 instead of -O if your compiler supports this (note: O is the letter, not zero). Using the "gcc" compiler, you can also specify processor specific flags (examples, please suggest better settings to us):

CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O2" # AMD Athlon processor with code optimisations
CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10" # AMD Phenom II X4 64bit processor with gcc >=4.3
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium" # Intel Pentium processor
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4" # Intel Pentium4 processor
CFLAGS="-O2 -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -minline-all-stringops" # Intel XEON 64bit processor
CFLAGS="-mtune=nocona -m64 -minline-all-stringops" # Intel Pentium 64bit processor

To find out optional CFLAGS for your platform, enter:
gcc -dumpspecs

See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/

A real fast GRASS version (and small binaries) will be created with LDFLAGS set to "stripping" (but this disables debugging):

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=<cpu_see_above> -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure

=== Configure options and their meanings ===

For configure there are many options and some GRASS modules are built only if some options are set. Here are listed common configuration options with short explanation.

* --prefix=/path - Sets path where GRASS will be installed. GRASS will reside in /path/grass-version.
* --enable-largefile - Enables large (>2Gb on 32bit systems) support. For current large file support status look at [[Large File Support]] page.
* --with-cxx - Enables compilation of C++ code. Required for r.terraflow module.
* --with-readline - Enables readline support. If readline is enabled, you can use its history/editing facilities when entering r.mapcalc expressions on stdin.
* --with-glw - Enables GLw support. The GLw library provides OpenGL "canvas" widgets for Athena and Motif.

That switch is unnecessary for normal compilation. It's only
required for r3.showdspf, which isn't normally built; if you
want it, you have build it manually
(e.g. "make -C raster3d/r3.showdspf").
As similar functionality is now provided by NVIZ, r3.showdspf
is deprecated.
r3.showdspf uses the Motif widget (so you also need a
Motif library, e.g. Lesstif or OpenMotif).
[http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grassuser/2006-December/037475.html Glynn Clements at GRASS-user mailing list]

=== Parallelized compilation on multi-core CPUs ===

You can dramatically accelerate the compilation of the GRASS code with the -j flag of "make" if you have a multi-core CPU system. This determines the maximum number of jobs to have running at once, so cores don't have to sit idle waiting for jobs on other cores to complete. A good rule of thumb for this value is <tt>number_of_cores * 1.5</tt>, but note that setting any higher than the actual number of cores will only affect the timing slightly. For example, on a dual-core processor:
make -j 4



== GRASS-GDAL plugin ==

* see [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]]

== Addons ==

Please note that the installation of [[AddOns/GRASS_6|Addons]] can be easily done with the {{cmd|g.extension}} manager. The compile instructions below are aiming at own development.

=== Compiled modules ===

This is the general way which works for C modules as well as scripts (Python or Shell/Bash modules) which has HTML documentation.

'''Requirements:'''

Either:
* a binary GRASS package, or
* source code which has been prepared with:
./configure [opionally flags]
make libs

Each of the [[GRASS_AddOns|addon]] modules should come with a Makefile. To compile it, just run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/

Note that the <tt>/path/to/grass64</tt> has to be absolute, not relative.

If using Bash it may be useful to set that up as an alias:
alias gmake64='make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/'

Installation (perhaps requires "sudo"):
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/ install

Note: Compiled addons may require a re-compilation if you changed/updated your GRASS standard binaries.

==== If binary comes with a -dev package ====

''(work in progress, this text states how it eventually will be :)''
Nowadays one does not need to the source code, nor compiling GRASS by oneself to be able to add add-ons. On Debian, you can just install the grass-dev package and then run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/usr/lib/grass64/ INST_DIR=/usr/lib/grass64/

The grass-dev package essentially provides GRASS's <tt>include</tt> header files and Make configuration files.

=== Scripts ===

If the addon module is a script, it is sufficient to copy it into the (GRASS binaries) path somewhere. Alternatively, install addons into a separate GRASS addons binaries/scripts directory which is easier to maintain. It avoids getting clobbered every time you reinstall GRASS. To use these separately stored scripts, set and export the GRASS_ADDON_PATH environment variable before starting GRASS and it will automatically be added to the module search path (see the {{cmd|variables}} help page). To simplify this, do for example:

# add in $HOME/.bashrc:
GRASS_ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/grass/addons/
export GRASS_ADDON_PATH

Make sure that the script is executable, then just call it in GRASS typing the filename. Python scripts need to be called writing the extension as well, like:

GRASS 6.5.svn (spearfish60):~ > v.krige.py

[[Category:Development]]
[[Category:Documentation]]
[[Category:Installation]]

Talk:GRASS Python Scripting Library

2015-01-27T22:25:05Z

⚠️Plantarum: tagged broken link

The link to the Grass7 python scripts in the top section is broken!

Compile and Install

2015-01-27T21:28:26Z

⚠️Plantarum: Updated dependencies for Debian Jessie

'''Disclaimer''': This page explains how to turn the GRASS GIS source code into an installable binary package ("compilation") for different operating systems. If you just want to get ready-to-use binaries, go [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/ here], otherwise read on...

== How to do compilation and installation of GRASS GIS? ==

Here we explain the procedure to compile GRASS from SVN, but it also applies to official GRASS 6 releases.

''For installation of precompiled binary packages, see the main [[Installation Guide]].''

For detailed information on compilation, please see the [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/INSTALL INSTALL] file in the source code.

=== Prerequisites ===

==== Extra libraries ====
GRASS needs at least two extra libraries: PROJ and GDAL/OGR

''Note: if you want to have DBMS support in GDAL (subsequently in GRASS) you have to perform the "Optional" steps below as well.''

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ4] for management of projections (with proj-datumgrid-1.3.zip support)
* Optional: [http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ GEOS]
* Optional: [http://www.postgresql.org PostgreSQL], [http://www.mysql.org mySQL], [http://www.unixodbc.org unixODBC], [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite] (SQLite is needed for [[QGIS]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL/OGR] for reading and writing various GIS data formats (interoperability)

You have to install these two libraries '''first''' (see below how to get them precompiled for your system).

It is easiest to obtain a prepackaged version of these libraries (e.g., .rpm; .deb) for your particular operating system and run the corresponding package installation (e.g., rpm -Uhv packagename.rpm; apt-get) in a terminal window. Take care to also install the development packages of these libraries (...-devel packages). If there is no prepackage version, then you will have to download the source code (see links above, source code packages usually ends in .tar.gz or .zip) and compile it (you must have a C compiler installed as part of your operating system). The Web sites show the steps to compile the libraries.

Other libraries needed to run GRASS are listed on the {{website|grass64/source/REQUIREMENTS.html|requirements page}}.

To compile, you will also need the respective "-devel" packages.

==== Download GRASS GIS source code ====
Then [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ download the GRASS GIS source code] of course.

=== Generic Compilation and installation procedure ===

* It is wise that compilation processes are carried out as a normal user: If you want to get the source code in a place where you do not have write permissions (e.g. in /usr/local/src/) just follow this:
cd /usr/local/src/
su -c 'mkdir grass6'
su -c 'chown yourlogin:yourgroup grass6'

Otherwise if you have permissions just continue as a normal user:
cd /usr/local/src/
svn checkout ...

* do a code checkout from the SVN source code repository
: checkout the latest GRASS 6.x from SVN (see: {{twiki|DownloadSource}})

* in the grass6 directory, you will find the precious INSTALL file, open it with your favourite pager/editor and read it carefully!

* run configure with parameters to adapt the compile process to your own system. To see what options can be passed to it, run:
./configure --help | less


It may (!) look like this:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/include/pgsql/libpq \
--with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj

You may have to explicitly state the path for certain packages (i.e., gdal). The Unix 'locate' command will come in handy for finding the path of the package you need (you may have to run locate as root ex: sudo locate gdal-config).

Please note that the paths mentioned may widely vary due to the distribution used.
See [[Compile_and_Install#Platform_Specific_Notes|Platform Specific Notes]] below.

Depending on your needs it may be a good idea to include debugging hooks.
: See [[GRASS_Debugging#Compile_Time_Setup]].
CFLAGS="-ggdb -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" ./configure ...

At the end of configuration process you should get report not much different from this:

GRASS is now configured for: i686-pc-linux-gnu

Source directory: /usr/src/grass6
Build directory: /usr/src/grass6
Installation directory: /usr/local/grass-6.3.svn
Startup script in directory: ${exec_prefix}/bin
C compiler: gcc -g -O2
C++ compiler: c++ -g -O2
FORTRAN compiler:
Building shared libraries: yes
64bit support: no

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
LAPACK support: no
Large File Support (LFS): no
Motif support: no
MySQL support: no
NLS support: no
ODBC support: no
OGR support: yes
OpenGL(R) support: yes
PNG support: yes
PostgreSQL support: yes
Readline support: no
SQLite support: no
Tcl/Tk support: yes
TIFF support: yes
X11 support: yes

* Let's compile it (takes a little while...)!
make
* At the end, you should get report not much different from this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Following modules are missing the 'description.html' file in src code:
----------------------------------------------------------------------
GRASS GIS compilation log
-------------------------
Started compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:18:43 CEST 2006
--
Errors in:
--
Finished compilation: Ne kvě 28 13:43:40 CEST 2006
(In case of errors please change into the directory with error and run 'make')

* If there is any error, change directory to directory with error and run "make" again. Report occuring bug to grass mailing list
* Once the installation process is finished, you're ready to install GRASS system wide.
su -c 'make install'
* enjoy GRASS:
grass64

=== What else? ===

If you want to use [http://www.qgis.org QGIS], then also compile the GRASS-GDAL/OGR plugin. This is also useful to access your GRASS-data
from other application using GDAL/OGR like [http://thuban.intevation.de thuban].
* [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]] (enables QGIS to read GRASS data directly)

=== Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin ===

* See [[Compile and install GDAL-GRASS plugin]]

=== Platform Specific Notes ===

==== Linux ====

Linux cames in various flavours, i.e. distributions.

===== Debian =====

Read the instructions here:
: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/develbranch_6/debian/README.debian

# first install PROJ, GDAL, etc.
cd grass64/
# follow instructions in debian/README.debian
fakeroot buildpackage

* Official [http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis DebianGIS] packaging control files:

<strike>
http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/
svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/trunk/

or

svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-grass/packages/grass/branches/<GRASS Version>
</strike>

Available on git server:
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-grass/grass.git

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-grass/grass.git/

====== GRASS 6.1 on Debian Sarge ======

* [http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/debiangisfiles#compile Compiling GRASS 6.1-CVS on Debian/OldStable (aka 3.1, Sarge)]

====== GRASS 6.4 on Debian Lenny ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev lesstif2-dev debhelper dpatch libtiff4-dev \
tcl-dev tk-dev libfftw3-dev libxmu-dev libfreetype6-dev autoconf2.13 autotools-dev doxygen \
libmysqlclient15-dev graphviz libsqlite3-dev python-wxgtk2.8 libcairo2-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev \
python-dev libgdal1-dev libgdal1-1.5.0 libproj-dev libproj0 proj-data mysql

Configure:
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/postgresql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-odbc \
--with-cairo \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/include/tcl8.4/ \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-motif --with-fftw --with-nls --with-python

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Squeeze ======

Install needed packages:
apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev python-dev \
g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff4-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev

Download source code:

svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/trunk grass_trunk

Configure:

cd grass_trunk/
CFLAGS="-Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-Wall" \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--without-tcltk \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite \
--with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.6-config --with-wxwidgets \
--with-geos --with-pthread

Compile:
make

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass71

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Wheezy ======

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev python-dev \
g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1 libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff4-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk2.8 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev

Download source code:
svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0 grass-7.0.svn

Configure:

cd grass-7.0.svn

CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--without-tcltk \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite \
--with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos

Compile:
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

====== GRASS 7 on Debian Jessie ======

Install needed packages:
sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install flex bison debhelper dpatch autoconf2.13 autotools-dev python-dev \
g++ gcc gettext graphviz libcairo2-dev libfftw3-dev libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal1h libgdal1-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglw1-mesa-dev \
libncurses5-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libtiff5-dev \
libwxgtk3.0-dev libxmu-dev libxmu-headers libxt-dev mesa-common-dev \
proj-bin python-numpy python-wxgtk3.0 subversion wx-common zlib1g-dev

Download source code:
svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0 grass-7.0.svn

Configure:

cd grass-7.0.svn

CFLAGS="-g -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -fno-common -Wextra -Wunused" \
CXXFLAGS="-g -Wall" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local \
--with-gdal --with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share \
--with-glw --with-nls --with-readline \
--without-tcltk \
--with-cxx \
--enable-largefile \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-sqlite \
--with-cairo --with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-geos

Compile:
make -j2

Install:
sudo make install # installs as /usr/local/bin/grass70

===== Ubuntu =====

In general, the compilation instructions for Debian (see above), apply to the Ubuntu-Linux operating system as well. However, there is a dedicated page on how to [[Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu | Compile the GRASS GIS source code & install it in Ubuntu]].

===== Linux Mint =====

Install packages needed for compilation:
<pre>
sudo apt-get install build-essential flex make bison gcc libgcc1 g++ \
cmake ccache python python-dev python-qt4 python-qt4-dev python-opengl \
python-wxversion python-wxtools python-wxgtk2.8 python-dateutil \
libgsl0-dev python-numpy wx2.8-headers wx-common libwxgtk2.8-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dbg libwxbase2.8-dev libwxbase2.8-dbg libncurses5-dev \
zlib1g-dev gettext libtiff-dev libpnglite-dev tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev \
libcairo2 libcairo2-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libreadline6 \
libreadline6-dev libfreetype6-dev txt2tags libfftw3-3 libfftw3-dev \
libqt4-core libqt4-dbg libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-sql \
libqt4-qt3support lsb-qt4 qt4-designer qt4-dev-tools qt4-doc \
qt4-qtconfig libapt-pkg-perl resolvconf libjasper-dev ruby subversion \
ffmpeg ffmpeg2theora libffmpegthumbnailer-dev libavcodec-dev libxmu-dev \
libavformat-dev libswscale-dev checkinstall libglu1-mesa-dev libxmu-dev \
libproj-dev proj-bin

CFLAGS="-Wall" ./configure --with-cxx --with-gdal \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos --without-postgres \
--with-nls --with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL/ \
--with-x --with-fftw --with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 --with-sqlite \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config --with-wx=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-wxwidgets --with-cairo --enable-largefile

make

sudo make install
</pre>

===== Mandriva =====

Installation of dependencies (urpmi will ask you a few more):

'''Mandriva 2009:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit)
# as root
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
mesagl1-devel mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

'''Mandriva 2010:''' (take out the '64' everywhere if you are on 32bit) - see also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/current/SPECS/ SPEC] file
# as root
# installation of PROJ and GDAL
urpmi proj proj-devel gdal gdal-devel gcc-gfortran lib64openssl1.0.0 \
lib64openssl1.0.0-devel postgresql8.4-devel lib64pq8.4

# installation of compilation environment
urpmi flex bison zlib-devel tiff-devel png-devel tcl-devel tk-devel sqlite3-devel \
lib64mesagl1-devel lib64mesaglu1-devel lib64xmu6-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
lib64wxgtk2.8 lib64wxgtk2.8-devel lib64wxgtkgl2.8 wxgtk2.8 \
lib64wxPythonGTK2.8 lib64wxPythonGTK2.8-devel wxPythonGTK wxPythonGTK-wxversion
exit

Then, to configure GRASS, run (64 bit stuff optional of course):
# as user
./configure \
--enable-64bit --with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/local/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-python \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/lib/wxPython/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/libav* /usr/include/libpostproc /usr/include/libswscale" \
--with-motif \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile

# compilation (use -j2 ior -j4 parameter on multi-core CPUs to accelerate):
make

Installation:
su
# this will install into /usr/local/
make install
exit

===== Enterprise Linux =====

Enterprise Linux (EL) and derivatives (that is, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and Scientific Linux) is a popular and robust platform for servers and computing-heavy workstations, and is therefore a good fit for GIS specific requirements.

See: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS

===== Scientific Linux =====

See Centos

===== CentOS =====

You first need to add the EPEL repository for PROJ.4 and GDAL, see [https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#How_can_I_install_the_packages_from_the_EPEL_software_repository.3F here]

<strike>
Preparation '''Centos 5''' (old):
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm

# Note: CentOS 5 comes with Python 2.4 which lacks python-config, hence two extra tweaks are needed.
yum install flex bison zlib-devel tcl-devel tk-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
libtiff-devel libpng-devel sqlite-devel \
mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel mesa-libGLw-devel \
mesa-libOSMesa-devel libXmu-devel python-devel gtk2-devel\
ncurses-devel postgresql-devel make
</strike>

Preparation '''Centos 6''' | '''Scientific Linux 6''':
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib
# only GRASS GIS 6: install also tcl-devel tk-devel

Preparation '''Centos 7''' | '''Scientific Linux 7''':
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-2.noarch.rpm

yum install flex bison make zlib-devel gcc-c++ gettext \
sqlite-devel mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel \
libXmu-devel libX11-devel fftw-devel libtiff-devel \
lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
proj proj-devel proj-epsg proj-nad libxml2 gdal gdal-devel geos geos-devel \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib
# only GRASS GIS 6: install also tcl-devel tk-devel

'''GRASS GIS 7 compilation and installation'''

[http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ Download source code] (e.g., --> "Download latest 7.0-svn code (SVN))" and configure GRASS 7 (suggestion: save this as script):

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--without-ffmpeg \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-postgres \
--with-nls \
--with-python \
--with-cairo \
--with-geos \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--without-mysql \
--without-odbc \
--without-fftw \
--enable-largefile

Compile:
make
or on a multicore system (number depends of available cores):
make -j4

For a system wide installation, run as root user:
make install
OR simply run it directly from the source code directory (substitute ARCH with i686 or x86_64):

bin.$ARCH/grass70 -gui

In this case, for convenience, add it to the search path:
mkdir $HOME/bin
cd $HOME/bin
# example:
ln -s $HOME/software/grass70_release/bin.i686-pc-linux-gnu/grass70 .

Now use it subsequently with
grass70 -gui

===== Gentoo =====

./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/"

See also http://packages.gentoo.org/package/sci-geosciences/grass

===== Funtoo =====

The [http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install#Generic_Compilation_and_installation_procedure Generic Compilation & installation procedure] applies also for the [http://www.funtoo.org/ Funtoo] Linux meta-distribution. The following example scripts are provided as a mean to get started.

====== Installing dependencies ======

'''''Following likely needs to be updated!'''''

<source lang="bash">
# # Searching for missing packages, e.g. wxwidgets
# e-file wx-config

# emerge dependecies -- This will take quite some time! Hint: net-libs/webkit-gtk
USE="curl xls fftw gmath motif wxwidgets gml hdf5 jpeg2k mdb netcdf odbc ogdi opencl postgres spatialite sqlite szip" \
emerge -av proj geos gdal \
xerces \
mesa motif libGLw \
tcl tk clang llvm byacc opencl \
unixODBC postgresql-base ogdi spatialite \
libgeotiff hdf5 netcdf \
eselect-postgresql eselect-opencl eselect-wxwidgets \
wxpython pyopengl \
fftw

# before compiling
eselect python set 1 # probably #1 is python 2.7
</source>

====== Example Scripts ======

A simple configuration and compilation

<ul>
<source lang="bash">
# clean previous configuration
make distclean

# update source code
svn up

# renice! source: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2013-May/068229.html>
renice +17 -p $$

# configure
./configure \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
2>&1 | tee config_log.txt

# compile
time make -j13
</source>
</ul>

An attempt for a complete configuration and compilation '''checking'''. In addition, this script times each of the executed commands (need for scrolling back!).

<ul>
<source lang="bash">
# clean previous configuration
time make distclean

# update
time svn up

# renice! source: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2013-May/068229.html>
renice +17 -p $$

# configure
CFLAGS="-ggdb -march=native -Wall -Werror-implicit-function-declaration" \
./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-includes=/usr/include/ --with-libs=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-proj \
--with-proj-includes=/usr/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=/usr/lib64/ \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-cairo \
--with-opengl-libs=/usr/include/GL \
--without-ffmpeg \
--with-python=yes --with-python=/usr/bin/python2.7-config \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-freetype=yes --with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--with-odbc=yes \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-mysql=yes --with-mysql-includes="/usr/include/mysql" --with-mysql-libs=/usr/lib/mysql \
--with-postgres=yes --with-postgresql=yes --with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql" \
--with-opencl --with-openmp --with-pthread \
--with-lapack \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-regex \
--with-nls \
--with-jpeg \
--with-tiff \
--with-png \
--with-netcdf \
--without-opendwg \
--enable-largefile=yes \
2>&1 | tee config_log.txt

# check "make"
time make check
</source>
</ul>

===== Fedora =====

'''Preparation''' for the compilation of GRASS GIS source code (F16-F20):

yum install proj-devel gdal-devel sqlite-devel ffmpeg-devel mesa-libGL-devel \
mesa-libGLU-devel libXmu-devel libX11-devel tcl-devel tk-devel geos \
fftw-devel libtiff-devel lesstif-devel python-devel numpy wxPython wxGTK-devel \
gcc gcc-c++ bison flex ncurses-devel proj-epsg proj-nad xml2 \
python-dateutil python-imaging python-matplotlib-wx subversion

''Note 1: that currently gdal-devel has (too) many dependencies and will lead to a massive download of extra packages (200 on a fresh Fedora 16 install).''

''Note 2: the optional ffmpeg-devel comes from the rpmfusion-free repository ([http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration/ configuration]).''

''Note 3: GRASS GIS 7 does no longer use tcl/tk, so tcl-devel and tk-devel may be omitted.''

'''Download''' the source code:
* GRASS GIS 6: [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/sources/ release package] - [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS6.4 SVN repository]
* GRASS GIS 7: [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ weekly snapshot] - [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/DownloadSource#GRASS7 SVN repository]

'''Configure''': This is an example how to configure the source code on a Fedora system:

./configure \
--with-cxx \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj --with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-sqlite \
--with-nls \
--with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \
--with-fftw \
--with-python=/usr/bin/python-config \
--with-freetype --with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--enable-largefile \
--without-odbc

Note: An effective (but not fast) way of getting dependencies is to decide what to enable in the configuration, and then run ./config and see which files are missing. The package providing it can be found via:

yum provides */<name of the file>

and then install them with your favourite package manager frontend or yum itself.

Extra: If you also want '''FFMPEG''' support:

It requires 'yum install fftw-devel'. Then add to the configuration lines above:

--with-ffmpeg --with-ffmpeg-includes="/usr/include/ffmpeg /usr/include/ffmpeg/libav* /usr/include/ffmpeg/libpostproc /usr/include/ffmpeg/libswscale" \

Finally '''compile''' the configured source code:
make
or on multicore (number depends of available cores):
make -j4
and
make install # requires root permissions unless you become owner of /usr/local/

Then use GRASS GIS and enjoy!

===== openSUSE =====

To build GRASS on openSUSE:

RPM packages to be installed:
<source lang="bash">
sudo zypper install bison flex freetype2-devel fftw3-devel gcc-c++ \
libgdal-devel libgeos-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel \
man proj libproj-devel readline-devel netcdf-devel ncurses-devel \
mysql-devel postgresql-devel sqlite-devel unixODBC-devel \
tcl-devel tk-devel xorg-x11-Mesa-devel libXmu-devel \
python-numpy python-dateutil python-devel python-opengl \
python-wxWidgets python-xml python-dateutil wxWidgets-devel \
zlib-devel
</source>

Source code configuration:
<source lang="bash">
./configure \
--enable-largefile \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj \
--with-cxx \
--with-lapack=yes \
--with-x \
--with-motif \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-postgres --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql \
--with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/usr/include/mysql \
--with-fftw \
--with-readline \
--with-netcdf \
--with-curses \
--with-geos \
--with-nls \
--with-sqlite \
--with-freetype \
--with-freetype-includes=/usr/include/freetype2 \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-odbc \
--with-python
</source>

Then compile with "make [-j2]".

===== Arch Linux =====

The easiest/fastest way is to build GRASS GIS using AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=grass (msieczka: I would recommend my set of PKBUILDs - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=czk&SeB=m. They are most feature-rich, up-to-date and allow to have various versions installed alongside each other without conflicts.)

But if you want to compile it yourself you have to keep in mind that in Arch Linux the default Python version 3.

python --version

Python 3.3.1

Therefore, to build GRASS GIS (version 7 in this example), we can use either use virtualenv or symlink python2 and python2-config in a given directory.
Let's use the latter approach

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2 $HOME/usr/bin/python
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2-config $HOME/usr/bin/python-config

We can now start building GRASS 7

export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH && \
./configure \
--enable-debug \
--enable-64bit \
--with-libs=/usr/lib64 \
--with-cxx \
--with-readline \
--with-zlib-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-freetype=yes \
--with-freetype-includes="/usr/include/freetype2/" \
--enable-largefile=yes \
--with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-share=/usr/share/proj/ \
--with-geos=/usr/bin/geos-config \
--with-cairo \
--with-odbc \
--with-pthread \
--with-liblas=/usr/local/bin/liblas-config \
--with-fftw-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-fftw-libs=/usr/lib/ \
--with-tcltk-includes="/usr/include/" \
--with-wxwidgets \
--with-postgres=yes \
--with-postgres-includes="/usr/include/postgresql/internal" \
--with-postgres-libs="/usr/include/postgresql/internal/libpq" \
--with-sqlite=yes \
--with-python=yes \
--with-liblas \
--with-netcdf

Now let's compile and install it

make
sudo make install

Now the final step required to use GRASS with python2 is to create a bash script "grass" (or the name you want)

#!/bin/bash
export PATH=~/usr/bin:$PATH
python2 /usr/local/bin/grass70

And make it executable and copy it somewhere in the PATH

chmod+x grass
sudo cp grass /usr/local/bin

It's done, you can enjoy GRASS 7 in Arch, just type "grass" (or the name you gave to the script) in the terminal to launch it.

===== RPM SPEC files =====
* ... can be found in the source code, rpm/ directory,
* or [https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=grass&project=Application%3AGeo OpenSuSe]
* or [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/grass Fedora]
* or [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/grass/ Mandriva] (there are also [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/proj/ proj4], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/geos/ geos], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal/ gdal], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/gdal-grass/ gdal-grass-plugin], [http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/qgis/ qgis] etc)
* ...

===== Zaurus =====

... see [http://wiki.debian.org/?GrassGISonZaurus here] for instructions

==== Mac OSX ====

* see the source/macosx readme ([http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/macosx/ReadMe.rtf Trac link])
* main page [[Compiling on MacOSX]]
* main page [[Packaging on MacOSX]]
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/download/software/mac-osx/ official download site]
* [http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks#build_scripts build scripts for dependencies]
* solving errors at starting GRASS GIS: [[MacOSX GRASS errors]]

==== FreeBSD / NetBSD ====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the respective package managing tools (pkg_add for FreeBSD and pkgin install for NetBSD) and for recent *BSD versions most likely installed by default.

GRASS 6.x and GRASS 7 should compile on FreeBSD 8.0 or later and NetBSD 5.0 or later (maybe also on updated NetBSD 4.x).

It is highly recommended to install GDAL/OGR and PROJ4 first. These libraries and tools are available as [http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ ports for FreeBSD] and [http://www.pkgsrc.org/ packages for NetBSD].

Optional functionality is listed with ''./configure --help'', and related libraries and tools might need to be installed first.

==== Solaris ====

* ''2008 Oct 15'': see [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2008-October/047093.html this post on the grass mailing list]

===== 11 SPARC/i86pc =====

The recommended compiler tools are GCC, GNU make, GNU coreutils (for install), and flex. All are available through the Solaris package manager.

Most dependencies are available through the Solaris package manager. GDAL and proj4 can either be compiled from source or installed e.g. from [http://www.opencsw.org/ OpenCSW]. If packages are installed from OpenCSW, the linker flags need to be set with

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R/opt/csw/lib -L/opt/csw/lib -Wl,-R/opt/csw/gxx/lib -L/opt/csw/gxx/lib"

See also the [http://www.opencsw.org/use-it/ OpenCSW documentation].

===== 10 SPARC/i86pc =====

* get gcc compiler and tools. There are several sources: Solaris Companion CD (SFW pkg, installs in /opt/sfw/), Blastwave ([http://www.blastwave.org], CSW pkg, installs in /opt/csw/) or Sunfreeware ([http://www.sunfreeware.com], SMC pkg, installs in /usr/local/).
Needed Packages from Sunfreeware: SMCbinut, SMCbison, SMCcoreu, SMCfindu, SMCflex, SMCgawk, SMCgcc, SMCgrep, SMCgzip, SMCless, SMClibt, SMClicon, SMCmake, SMCncurs, SMCproj, SMCsed, SMCtar, SMCtcl, SMCtiff, SMCtk, SMCunzip, SMCzlib.

* compile and install fftw-library ([http://www.fftw.org]). You need to re-compile the library with:

./configure --with-pic --enable-shared; make ; make install.

The pre-built packages don't work.

* compile and install gdal library (see documentation of gdal, [http://www.gdal.org]).

* compile and install any additional libraries (e. g. GEOS, [http://geos.refractions.net]).

* set compiler flags and path. e. g.:

# on ultra-sparc machine:
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=v9"
PATH="/usr/local/bin:/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
export CFLAGS CXXFLAGS PATH

Path has to be changed for the packages (Sunfreeware: /usr/local/bin, Solaris Companion: /opt/sfw/bin, Blastwave: /opt/csw/bin).

* Next configure, e. g.:

./configure --with-postgres-includes=/usr/include/pgsql/ \
--with-postgres-libs=/usr/lib --with-postgres=yes \
--with-includes=/usr/local/include/ncurses

If you use n(ew)curses, you have to include the path /usr/local/include/ncurses.

then:

make
su
make install

If the shared libraries are not found at runtime of the modules, use 'crle' to add the paths of the libraries for the dynamic linker, e. g. as root:

crle -l /lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/opt/sfw/lib:/usr/X11/lib

Be careful not to omit a library path, the system may be unusable if you forget the /lib path.

==== AIX ====

A recent [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81) and GNU coreutils are required. These are available with the [http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/download.html IBM AIX toolbox] or through third-party AIX software repositories, e.g. [http://www.bullfreeware.com/ bullfreeware] and [http://www.perzl.org/aix/ perzl.org]. Note that 'make' does not work, only 'gmake' works.

General instructions to compile on AIX are e.g. [http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Instructions here]

On AIX, compilation results by default in 32 bit applications and static libraries. The [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gnu.html IBM documentation] explains how to build 64 bit applications and shared libraries with GCC.

'''GRASS 6: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''
* ''see [http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/32667 this mailing list thread]''

Mike wrote in 2009:

After attempting all the suggestions, I finally used
--disable-shared on the configure command, and all but
a handful of modules successfully compiled. I was able to
individually address the ones that failed through Makefile
edits and several small source code/header file edits.

The environment variables and configure command that worked were:
<pre>
# xlc compiler:
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/opt/freeware/bin:$PATH
export OBJECT_MODE=64
export LIBICONV=/opt/freeware
export CC="xlc_r -q64"
export CFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export CXX="xlC_r -q64"
export CXXFLAGS="-O -qstrict"
export AR="ar -X64"
export F77="xlf_r -q64"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/afs/isis/pkg/libpng/include -I/usr/local/include -I$LIBICONV/include -I/usr/lpp/X11/include/X11"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib -L$LIBICONV/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lc"

./configure --prefix=/afs/isis/pkg/grass-6.4.0 \
--enable-64bit \
--disable-shared \
--with-includes="/usr/include/fontconfig /usr/include/X11 /usr/include/X11/Xft /usr/include/X11/ext" \
--x-includes=/usr/include/X11 \
--x-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib \
--with-fftw-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/include \
--with-fftw-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/fftw-3.2.2/lib \
--with-gdal=/afs/isis/pkg/gdal/bin/gdal-config \
--with-proj-includes=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/include \
--with-proj-libs=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/lib \
--with-proj-share=/afs/isis/pkg/proj/share/proj \
--with-tcltk-includes=/usr/local/include \
--with-tcltk-libs=/usr/local/lib \
--with-opengl-includes=/usr/include/GL
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the IBM xlc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

'''GRASS 7: Using the GNU gcc compiler:'''

Get and install (in this order):
* if needed, [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ GNU tar]
* if needed (the name is often 'gmake' and not 'make') [ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/ GNU make] (>= 3.81)
* [http://www.sqlite.org SQLite]
* [http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ PROJ.4] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://www.gdal.org GDAL] (for ./configure parameters, see [[Talk:Compile and Install|here]])
* [http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/source/snapshot/ GRASS GIS 7]

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 5.x:
<pre>
## AIX 5.x

export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib
# make 'ar' happy
export OBJECT_MODE=64

PREFIX=$HOME/private/bin
CFLAGS='-ansi -D_ALL_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_SOURCE=1 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -Dinline=' ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--disable-shared \
--enable-largefile \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-png=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

The environment variables and configure command that worked for AIX 7.x:
<pre>
## AIX 7.x
export CC="gcc"
export CXX="g++"
PREFIX=$HOME/bin

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-bsvr4,-R,/opt/freeware/lib -L/opt/freeware/lib" CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/freeware/include" ./configure \
--prefix=$PREFIX \
--enable-largefile \
--enable-shared \
--with-includes=/opt/freeware/include --with-libs=/opt/freeware/lib \
--with-cxx \
--with-proj-includes=$PREFIX/include/ \
--with-proj-libs=$PREFIX/lib/ \
--with-proj-share=$PREFIX/share/proj/ \
--with-gdal=$PREFIX/bin/gdal-config \
--with-sqlite \
--with-sqlite-libs=$PREFIX/lib --with-sqlite-includes=$PREFIX/include \
--with-png=no \
--with-tiff=no \
--with-fftw=no \
--with-cairo=no \
--with-opengl=no \
--with-freetype=no
</pre>

==== MS-Windows ====

===== MS-Windows/Cygwin =====

* See the [[Cygwin]] wiki pages

===== MS-Windows/native =====

====== Compile ======

* [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.4.x)
* <strike>[http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html GRASS Windows Native Binary Building Guide] (GRASS 6.3.x) </strike>
* See/adapt [http://blog.qgis.org/node/124 idea] for unattended install of QGIS (et al) from [http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ OSGeo4W] from the QuantumGIS Blog.

See also [[WinGRASS Current Status]] for latest updates.

=== Common problems and solutions ===

During compilation, error can occur if certain packages are not installed. Here a list of problems with solution:

* error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
** this suggests that you don't have the X headers installed
** Solution: Install the libx11-dev package

* error: g.list: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal1.6.0.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** this error appears in the shell right after the user clicks GUI's "Start GRASS" button. The GUI shows an error about geographic extent and gets closed afterwards.
** It happens when you launch bin.i686 executable on 64bit system. Be careful and choose the right architecture.

=== Static compilation ===

In order to get static rather than dynamically linked binaries, configure like this:

./configure --disable-shared --enable-static

This will however break the wxGUI and GRASS 7 completely because "ctypes" wants to link against shared libs, or there is something in the static libs that "ctypes" does not like.

=== Optimization ===

GCC and other compilers support [http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.3/gcc/Optimize-Options.html#Optimize-Options optimization]

If you would like to set compiler optimisations, for a possibly faster binary, type (don't enter a ";" anywhere):

CFLAGS=-O ./configure
or,
setenv CFLAGS -O
./configure

whichever works on your shell. Use -O2 instead of -O if your compiler supports this (note: O is the letter, not zero). Using the "gcc" compiler, you can also specify processor specific flags (examples, please suggest better settings to us):

CFLAGS="-mcpu=athlon -O2" # AMD Athlon processor with code optimisations
CFLAGS="-march=amdfam10" # AMD Phenom II X4 64bit processor with gcc >=4.3
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium" # Intel Pentium processor
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4" # Intel Pentium4 processor
CFLAGS="-O2 -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -minline-all-stringops" # Intel XEON 64bit processor
CFLAGS="-mtune=nocona -m64 -minline-all-stringops" # Intel Pentium 64bit processor

To find out optional CFLAGS for your platform, enter:
gcc -dumpspecs

See also: http://gcc.gnu.org/

A real fast GRASS version (and small binaries) will be created with LDFLAGS set to "stripping" (but this disables debugging):

CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=<cpu_see_above> -Wall" LDFLAGS="-s" ./configure

=== Configure options and their meanings ===

For configure there are many options and some GRASS modules are built only if some options are set. Here are listed common configuration options with short explanation.

* --prefix=/path - Sets path where GRASS will be installed. GRASS will reside in /path/grass-version.
* --enable-largefile - Enables large (>2Gb on 32bit systems) support. For current large file support status look at [[Large File Support]] page.
* --with-cxx - Enables compilation of C++ code. Required for r.terraflow module.
* --with-readline - Enables readline support. If readline is enabled, you can use its history/editing facilities when entering r.mapcalc expressions on stdin.
* --with-glw - Enables GLw support. The GLw library provides OpenGL "canvas" widgets for Athena and Motif.

That switch is unnecessary for normal compilation. It's only
required for r3.showdspf, which isn't normally built; if you
want it, you have build it manually
(e.g. "make -C raster3d/r3.showdspf").
As similar functionality is now provided by NVIZ, r3.showdspf
is deprecated.
r3.showdspf uses the Motif widget (so you also need a
Motif library, e.g. Lesstif or OpenMotif).
[http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/grassuser/2006-December/037475.html Glynn Clements at GRASS-user mailing list]

=== Parallelized compilation on multi-core CPUs ===

You can dramatically accelerate the compilation of the GRASS code with the -j flag of "make" if you have a multi-core CPU system. This determines the maximum number of jobs to have running at once, so cores don't have to sit idle waiting for jobs on other cores to complete. A good rule of thumb for this value is <tt>number_of_cores * 1.5</tt>, but note that setting any higher than the actual number of cores will only affect the timing slightly. For example, on a dual-core processor:
make -j 4



== GRASS-GDAL plugin ==

* see [[Compile and install GRASS and QGIS with GDAL/OGR Plugin]]

== Addons ==

Please note that the installation of [[AddOns/GRASS_6|Addons]] can be easily done with the {{cmd|g.extension}} manager. The compile instructions below are aiming at own development.

=== Compiled modules ===

This is the general way which works for C modules as well as scripts (Python or Shell/Bash modules) which has HTML documentation.

'''Requirements:'''

Either:
* a binary GRASS package, or
* source code which has been prepared with:
./configure [opionally flags]
make libs

Each of the [[GRASS_AddOns|addon]] modules should come with a Makefile. To compile it, just run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/

Note that the <tt>/path/to/grass64</tt> has to be absolute, not relative.

If using Bash it may be useful to set that up as an alias:
alias gmake64='make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/'

Installation (perhaps requires "sudo"):
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/grass64/ install

Note: Compiled addons may require a re-compilation if you changed/updated your GRASS standard binaries.

==== If binary comes with a -dev package ====

''(work in progress, this text states how it eventually will be :)''
Nowadays one does not need to the source code, nor compiling GRASS by oneself to be able to add add-ons. On Debian, you can just install the grass-dev package and then run:
make MODULE_TOPDIR=/usr/lib/grass64/ INST_DIR=/usr/lib/grass64/

The grass-dev package essentially provides GRASS's <tt>include</tt> header files and Make configuration files.

=== Scripts ===

If the addon module is a script, it is sufficient to copy it into the (GRASS binaries) path somewhere. Alternatively, install addons into a separate GRASS addons binaries/scripts directory which is easier to maintain. It avoids getting clobbered every time you reinstall GRASS. To use these separately stored scripts, set and export the GRASS_ADDON_PATH environment variable before starting GRASS and it will automatically be added to the module search path (see the {{cmd|variables}} help page). To simplify this, do for example:

# add in $HOME/.bashrc:
GRASS_ADDON_PATH=/usr/local/grass/addons/
export GRASS_ADDON_PATH

Make sure that the script is executable, then just call it in GRASS typing the filename. Python scripts need to be called writing the extension as well, like:

GRASS 6.5.svn (spearfish60):~ > v.krige.py

[[Category:Development]]
[[Category:Documentation]]
[[Category:Installation]]

Global datasets

2014-03-18T14:21:29Z

⚠️Plantarum: Updated and corrected instructions; initial version didn't account for multiple key values in the data table, corresponding to multiple soil layers for each polygon

= Raster data =

== Elevation data ==

=== ASTER topography (GDEM V1) ===

Improved ASTER GDEM 1 from 2009:

GDEM global 30m elevation calculated from stereo-pair images collected by the Terra satellite.
''"This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet made available to the world."''
This is a very new dataset, at version 1 (treat as ''experimental''). Accuracy will be improved in forthcoming versions (validation with SRTM, etc.; [http://blog.neteler.org/aster-gdem-30m-quality-assessment/ see assessment here] and [http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/reviews.html#aster here]).

* ''[https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/about/news_archive/monday_june_22_20092 pre-release announcement]''
* [http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jun/HQ_09-150_ASTER_Topographic_Map.html NASA press release]
* [https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome/ Warehouse Inventory Search Tool] or [http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/search.jsp Easy search tool] (Data download)

'''Tutorial:''' [[ASTER topography]]

''See also: [http://blog.neteler.org/aster-gdem-30m-quality-assessment/ ASTER GDEM 30m quality assessment]''

=== ASTER topography (GDEM V2) ===

Improved ASTER GDEM 2 from 2011:
* https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/aster_products_table/astgtm

The ASTER GDEM covers land surfaces between 83°N and 83°S and is comprised of 22,702 tiles. Tiles that contain at least 0.01% land area are included. The ASTER GDEM is distributed as Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) files with geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude). The data are posted on a '''1 arc-second''' (approximately '''30–m at the equator''') grid and referenced to the 1984 World Geodetic System (WGS84)/ 1996 Earth Gravitational Model (EGM96) geoid.

'''Notes:''' this DEM can be rather well filtered and smoothed with the [http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/neil.mitchell/mdenoise/ Sun's denoising algorithm] (using GDAL and free / open source program <mdenoise> or simply GRASS add-on {{AddonCmd|r.denoise}}.

Experiments showed that the best smoothing of ASTER GDEM 2 is reached with such parameters of <mdenoise>:
* threshold = 0.8
* iterations = 10-20

Also filtering with {{cmd|r.neighbors}} by "average" method and window size >=5 is quite useful to remove some noise from DEM.

''See also: [http://www.isprs2012.org/abstract/299.asp Validation of the ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model Version 2 over the Conterminous United States]''

=== ACE2 ===

The ACE2 Global Digital Elevation Model is available at 3", 30" and 5' spatial resolutions.

* http://tethys.eaprs.cse.dmu.ac.uk/ACE2/

Import example:
r.in.bin -f input="00N105E_3S.ACE2" output="ACE2_00N105E" bytes=4 \
order="native" north=15 south=0 east=120 west=105 \
rows=18000 cols=18000

=== CleanTOPO2 (DEM) ===

* [http://www.shadedrelief.com/cleantopo2/ CleanTOPO2 download]: Edited SRTM30 Plus World Elevation Data

Import in GRASS:
r.in.gdal CleanTOPO2.tif out=cleanTOPO2.tmp -l -o
g.region rast=cleanTOPO2 -p -g
# rescale from odd integer values to true world values
r.rescale cleanTOPO2.tmp out=cleanTOPO2 to=-10701,8248
r.colors cleanTOPO2_final col=terrain

[[Image:CleanTOPO2_map.png|thumb|center|300px|Rescaled ClearTOPO2 map]]

=== EGM2008 Geoid Data (Earth Gravitational Model) ===

Global 2.5 Minute Geoid Undulations:
* download GIS Format at http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/gravitymod/egm2008/egm08_gis.html

[[Image:Trentino_egm2008_map_5m_resampled.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Geoid undulations in Trentino, Italy]]

Verifications of points can be done with the http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/GeoidEval

=== ETOPO (DEM) ===

The ETOPO datasets provide global topography and bathymetry at 1', 2', and 5' per-cell resolutions.

==== ETOPO1 (DEM) ====

* http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/

* '''The ''cell registered'' version can be loaded directly into a lat/lon location'''. GRASS raster data is cell registered (see the [[GRASS raster semantics]] page)

* Special care must be taken with the ''grid registered'' version. It can not be loaded directly into a lat/lon location as the parameters found in the .hdr file exceed the limits of polar coordinate space: they have N,S rows which go 1/2 a cell beyond 90 latitude, when considered in the ''cell registered'' convention.
: So the data needs to have those 90deg N,S rows cropped away, and while we're at it we crop away a redundant overlapping column at 180 longitude. To do this we have to first tell the GIS a little fib during import to squeeze the data into lat/lon space, then crop away the spurious rows and column, then finally reset the resulting map's bounds to its true extent.

<source lang="bash">
# Import grid registered binary float, fibbing about its true extent
r.in.bin -f in=etopo1_bed_g.flt out=etopo1_bed_g.raw \
n=90 s=-90 e=180 w=-180 rows=10801 cols=21601 anull=-9999

# reduce the working region by 1 cell
g.region rast=etopo1_bed_g.raw
eval `g.region -g`
g.region n=n-$nsres s=s+$nsres e=e-$ewres -p

# save smaller raster and remove original
r.mapcalc "etopo1_bed_g.crop = etopo1_bed_g.raw"
g.remove etopo1_bed_g.raw

# re-establish the correct bounds, now that they'll fit
r.region etopo1_bed_g.crop n=89:59:30N s=89:59:30S w=179:59:30E e=179:59:30E
g.region rast=etopo1_bed_g.crop

# check that N,S,E,W and Res are all nice and clean:
r.info etopo1_bed_g.crop

# looks good, so accept the results by resetting the map name
g.rename etopo1_bed_g.crop,etopo1_bed_g

# set to use appropriate color rules
r.colors etopo1_bed_g color=etopo2

# set the 'units' metadata field (for elevation data contained within the map)
r.support etopo1_bed_g units=meters
</source>

* For the problematic ''grid registered'' version, the resulting {{cmd|r.info}} report should look like:
| Rows: 10799 |
| Columns: 21600 |
| Total Cells: 233258400 |
| Projection: Latitude-Longitude |
| N: 89:59:30N S: 89:59:30S Res: 0:01 |
| E: 179:59:30E W: 179:59:30E Res: 0:01 |
| Range of data: min = -10898 max = 8271 |
(the east and west bounds of the map touch 1/2 a cell west of 180 longitude)

* For the problematic ''grid registered'' version, since the data's grid is 1/2 a cell shifted from nicely rounded 1 arc-minutes (0:01), you'll need to ensure that the mapset's region preserves that alignment after zooming or panning:
g.region align=etopo1_bed_g -p
: (or oversample and set the region resolution to 1/2 arc-minutes (0:00:30), which will be four times as slow)

==== ETOPO2 (DEM) ====

* See the ETOPO2 (2' global) article by M.H. Bowman in the [http://grass.osgeo.org/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol1.pdf GRASS Newsletter, 1:8-11, August 2004].
: [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/01mgg04.html ETOPO2v2 data download] (take for example the ETOPO2v2g_f4_LSB.flt file)

=== GTOPO30 (DEM) ===

* Data [http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info download] - Import with {{cmd|r.in.gdal}}.

''Note:'' To avoid that the GTOPO30 data are read incorrectly, you can add a new line "PIXELTYPE SIGNEDINT" in the .HDR to force interpretation of the file as signed rather than unsigned integers. Then the .DEM file can be imported. Finally, e.g. the 'terrain' color table can be assigned to the imported map with r.colors.

=== Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) ===

* Data [https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/GMTED2010 download] - Import with {{cmd|r.in.gdal}}.

Import of GMTED2010 tiles in GRASS GIS:

r.in.gdal 30N000E_20101117_gmted_mea075.tif out=gmted2010_30N000E_20101117
r.colors gmted2010_30N000E_20101117 color=elevation
g.region rast=gmted2010_30N000E_20101117
r.shaded.relief gmted2010_30N000E_20101117 units=meters
d.mon x0
d.rast gmted2010_30N000E_20101117.shade
d.grid 1 color=red textcolor=red

[[Image:Gmted2010_30N000E_20101117_shaded.png|thumb|center|300px|GMTED2010 example: Trento - Garda Lake - Verona area (Northern Italy)]]

=== GEBCO Bathymetric Chart ===

* The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (original 1' release 2003, new 1' and 30" releases 2008)
: http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/
: http://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/online_delivery/gebco/

{{cmd|r.in.gdal}} can be used to import the GMT netCDF files directly, or if that doesn't work you can use GMT tools to convert to an old-style native GMT format and import that with {{cmd|r.in.bin}}.
: example: (GEBCO 2003 1' data)

# convert to an old style GMT binary .grd using grdreformat
$ grdreformat 3n24s47w14w.grd 3n24s47w14w_Native.grd=bs

# then import into GRASS,
GRASS> r.in.bin -h -s bytes=2 in=3n24s47w14w_Native.grd out=3n24s47w14w

# and set some nice colors
GRASS> r.colors 3n24s47w14w rules=- << EOF
nv magenta
0% black
-7740 0:0:168
0 84:176:248
0 40:124:0
522 68:148:24
1407 148:228:108
1929 232:228:108
2028 232:228:92
2550 228:160:32
2724 216:116:8
2730 grey
2754 grey
2760 252:252:252
2874 252:252:252
2883 192:192:192
2913 192:192:192
100% 252:252:252
EOF

=== Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT DEM) ===
: ''From Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory''
(it is reported that this is what Google Maps uses for their global bathymetry)

* Global ~1 arc-second (~90 m) topography using multi-beam and satellite data in the oceans combined with SRTM on land.
* Full information at: http://www.marine-geo.org/portals/gmrt/
* Accessible via [http://www.geomapapp.org/ GeoMapApp] or [http://www.virtualocean.org/ Virtual Ocean] software.
* Very convenient to download into GRASS via wget:

export `g.region -g`
wget "http://www.marine-geo.org/cgi-bin/getgridB?west=${w}&east=${e}&south=${s}&north=${n}&resolution=1" -O /tmp/test.grd
r.in.gdal /tmp/test.grd output=GMRT -o
rm /tmp/test.grd

* Note: Downloaded file contains no projection information, but is EPSG:4326 (WGS84 Geographic). The file size is limited, but lower resolution (resolution=2,4,8) data can be downloaded for larger areas.

=== Smith and Sandwell DEM ===

* Merge info here from the [[Marine Science]] wiki page

=== SRTM DEM ===

[http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission]
* see [[HOWTO import SRTM elevation data]]

=== SRTM30plus data DEM ===

SRTM30plus data consists of 33 files of global topography in the same format as the SRTM30 products distributed by the USGS EROS data center. The grid resolution is 30 second which is roughly one kilometer.

Land data are based on the 1-km averages of topography derived from the USGS SRTM30 grided DEM data product created with data from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. GTOPO30 data are used for high latitudes where SRTM data are not available.

Ocean data are based on the Smith and Sandwell global 2-minute grid between latitudes +/- 72 degrees. Higher resolution grids have been added from the LDEO Ridge Multibeam Synthesis Project and the NGDC Coastal Relief Model. Arctic bathymetry is from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (IBCAO).

All data are derived from public domain sources and these data are also in the public domain.

GRASS 6 script <code>r.in.srtm</code> described in GRASSNews vol. 3 won't work with this dataset (as it was made for the original SRTM HGT files). But you can import SRTM30plus tiles into GRASS this way:

r.in.bin -sb input=e020n40.Bathmetry.srtm output=e020n40_topex bytes=2 north=40 south=-10 east=60 west=20 r=6000 c=4800
r.colors e020n40_topex rules=etopo2

; Source
: GRASS Users Mailing List http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2005-August/030063.html
; Getting as SRTM30plus tiles: ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/srtm30_plus/srtm30/data/
; Getting as SRTM30plus huge file: ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/srtm30_plus/topo30/
; SRTMPLUS WCS server: http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/autotest/gdrivers/data/srtmplus.wcs (read with {{cmd|r.external}}

== Soil data ==

=== Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD Database) ===

Download: http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/

[http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/DataDesc.html?sb=12 Spatial reference system:] [http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/ EPSG:4326] (LatLong WGS84)

Import:
grass70 -c EPSG:4326 ~/grassdata/hwsd
# -e: expand location to dataset; -o: override (missing) projection in input dataset:
r.in.gdal input=hwsd.bil output=hwSoil -e -o
g.region rast=hwSoil -p
r.category hwSoil

The data is distributed with an MSAccess .mdb which contains additional data for each of the categories in the raster file. Opening the file in access, the data is found in the query "HWSD_Q". Save this query in .csv format (with a name like "HWSD_Q.csv") so that it may then be imported into GRASS. Before you can import it, you also need a file "HWSD_Q.csvt", which contains a single line listing the type for each column in the database:
"Integer","String","Integer","Integer","Integer","String","Integer","Integer","Real","Integer","String","Integer","String","Integer","String","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real"

With both the .csv and the .csvt file in the same directory, you can then import them into GRASS:
db.in.ogr dsn=~/grassdata/hwsd/HWSD_Q.csv output=hwsdData

The data cannot be connected directly to the raster, it must be converted to a vector first:
g.region rast=hwSoil
r.to.vect -v in=hwSoil out=hwSoil feature=area
v.db.droptable hwSoil
db.droptable -f hwSoil # delete the table completely

Note that the table includes multiple rows for each polygon, corresponding
to the dominant and various numbers of subdominant soils. To select only
the dominant soil layer:

db.select table=hwsdData sql='select * from hwsdData where SEQ = 1' \
output=domSoil.csv fs=,

This saves a copy of the table that contains only the dominant soil type for each polygon as domSoil.csv. This needs to be reloaded into the GRASS database. Since it has the same columns as HWSD_Q.csv, we can use the labels for that file:

cp HWSD_Q.csvt domSoil.csvt

Then we can load domSoil.csv:

db.in.ogr \
dsn=~/grassdata/downloads/harmonized_world_soil_database/domSoil.csv \
output=domSoil

Now at last we can connect the database to the vector file:

v.db.connect -o map=hwsd table=domSoil driver=sqlite key=MU_GLOBAL

To create a new raster map taking the values from the table:
g.region rast=hwSoil ## make sure we get the whole map
v.to.rast in=hwSoil out=T_SAND col=T_SAND

== Imagery ==

=== AVHRR ===

* see the [[AVHRR]] wiki page

=== Blue Marble imagery ===

NASA's Blue Marble is a 500m-8 degree per-cell world wide visual image of the Earth from space, with the clouds removed.

* see the [[Blue Marble]] wiki page

=== EO-1 imagery ===

(Earth Observing-1)
* "''Advanced Land Imager (ALI) provides image data from ten spectral bands (band designations). The instrument operates in a pushbroom fashion, with a spatial resolution of 30 meters for the multispectral bands and 10 meters for the panchromatic band.''"
:-- http://eros.usgs.gov/products/satellite/eo1.php
* On-board Atmospheric Corrections

=== Global Land Cover Characteristics ===

USGS ''et al.'' generated dataset at 1km resolution. Provides global landcover characteristics.

* see the [[Global Land Cover Characteristics]] wiki page

=== LANDSAT imagery ===

Since October 1, 2008 all Landsat 7 ETM+ scenes held in the [http://landsat.usgs.gov/ USGS EROS archive] are available for download at no charge.
* Download via the [http://glovis.usgs.gov/ Glovis] online search tool (req. Java)
* Download via the USGS's [http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/ EarthExplorer] interface

==== Import Modules ====

* {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} - Main import tool for complete multiband scenes
* {{cmd|r.in.wms}} - Download data covering current map region via WMS server
* [[GRASS_AddOns#r.in.onearth|r.in.onearth]] - WMS frontend for NASA's OnEarth Global Landsat Mosaic
* {{cmd|i.landsat.rgb}} - Color balancing/enhancement tool

==== See also ====

* Processing tips can be found on the [[LANDSAT]] wiki page

=== Miscellaneous ===

==== Data sources ====

* Some datasource links: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ben/gmt.html
* [http://www.geotorrent.org/browse.php Geotorrent.org]

==== Import Modules ====
* The {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} modules may be used to import data of [http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html many formats], including GMT netCDF
* The {{cmd|r.in.bin}} module may be used to import raw binary files

=== MODIS imagery ===

* see the [[MODIS]] wiki page

=== Natural Earth imagery ===

* [http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ Natural Earth II]: World environment map in natural color. GeoTIFF (use the {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} module)
* see also 1:10 million, 1:50 million and 1:110million scale maps from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

=== Orthoimagery ===

* [http://worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Sources_of_free_orthoimagery Sources of free orthoimagery]

=== Pathfinder AVHRR SST imagery ===

* see the Pathfinder [[AVHRR]] SST wiki page

=== QuickBird imagery ===

* See the [[QuickBird]] wiki page

=== SeaWiFS imagery ===

* see the [[SeaWiFS]] wiki page

=== SPOT Vegetation imagery ===

SPOT Vegetation (1km) global: NDVI data sets

* [http://free.vgt.vito.be/ SPOT Vegetation (1km, global) NDVI data set server]
* for import, see {{cmd|i.in.spotvgt}}

=== True Marble imagery ===

* [http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/download True Marble]: 250m world wide visual image of the Earth from space, with the clouds removed. GeoTIFF (use the {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} module)

== Climatic data ==

=== OGC WCS - Albedo example ===

TODO: update this example e.g. to http://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wcs?SERVICE=wcs&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

GRASS imports OGC Web Coverage Service data. Example server (please suggest a better one!)
<WCS_GDAL>
<ServiceURL>http://laits.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/NWGISS/NWGISS?</ServiceURL>
<CoverageName>AUTUMN.hdf</CoverageName>
<Timeout>90</Timeout>
<Resample>nearest</Resample>
</WCS_GDAL>

Save this as albedo.xml. Import into a LatLong WGS84 location:
r.in.gdal albedo.xml out=albedo

Unfortunately this server sends out the map shifted by 0.5 pixel. This requires a fix to the map boundary coordinates:
r.region albedo n=90 s=-90 w=-180 e=180

Now apply color table and look at the map:
r.colors albedo color=byr
d.mon x0
d.rast albedo

=== SNODAS maps ===

[http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g02158_snodas_snow_cover_model/index.html Snow Data Assimilation System] data that support hydrological modeling and analysis. First download the data, and untar them (once for each month, and once for each day), and you should get pairs of “.dat” and “.Hdr” files. The data files are stored in flat 16-bit binary format, so assuming that “snowdas_in.dat” is the name of the input file, at the GRASS prompt:

r.in.bin -bs bytes=2 rows=3351 cols=6935 north=52.874583333332339 \
south=24.949583333333454 east=-66.942083333334011 west=-124.733749999998366 \
anull=-9999 input=snowdas_input.dat output=snowdas

=== WorldClim maps ===

[http://www.worldclim.org/ WorldClim] is a set of global climate layers (climate grids) with a spatial resolution of a square kilometer.
* Load into a Lat/Lon WGS84 location (EPSG:4326)
* Import with {{cmd|r.in.bin}} or {{cmd|r.in.gdal}}
* {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} will read .BIL format, see the {{cmd|r.in.srtm}} shell script for hints
* binary format is 2 byte integer. Multiply by 10 using {{cmd|r.mapcalc}} to convert units. See http://www.worldclim.org/format.htm for more information and the [[MODIS]] help page for example of converting raw to data units.

== Population maps ==

=== Gridded Population of the World ===

* http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/global.jsp

Import with {{cmd|r.in.gdal}}, assign population color table with {{cmd|r.colors}}

== Topographic maps ==
=== Soviet topographic maps ===

* [http://en.poehali.org/maps Soviet topographic maps] as geocoded GeoTIFFs

= Vector data =

=== CDC Geographic Boundary and Public Health Maps ===

* http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/maps.htm

=== Global Administrative Areas ===

* GADM is a database of the location of the world's administrative areas (boundaries) available in shapefiles.
: http://gadm.org (extracted by country [http://gadm.org/country here])

* World Borders Dataset including ISO 3166-1 Country codes available in shapefiles.
: http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
* Free GIS data from Mapping Hacks
: http://mappinghacks.com/data/

=== GSHHS World Coastline ===

GSHHS is a high resolution shoreline dataset. It is derived from data in the public domain and licensed as GPL. The shorelines are constructed entirely from hierarchically arranged closed polygons. It is closely linked to the [[GMT]] project.

==== Availability ====

* Download the original data set from http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/index.html. Also available at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhg/latest/.

* The data set, or parts from it, can be extracted from [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html NOAA's shoreline extractor].
:For GRASS 6 you can download 1:250,000 shoreline data from NOAA's site in Mapgen format, which can be imported with the {{cmd|v.in.mapgen}} module.

* '''ESRI Shapefiles''' of the latest version are available at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhg/latest/. The old 1.6 version is available at ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/GIS/GISData/GSHHS/.

==== Import ====

* Import with the GRASS6 add-on module {{AddonCmd|v.in.gshhs}}

=== OpenStreetMap ===

See the [[OpenStreetMap]] wiki page.

=== SALB ===

Second Administrative Level Boundaries: ''"The SALB dataset is a global digital dataset consisting of digital maps and codes that can be downloaded on a country by country basis."''

* http://www.who.int/whosis/database/gis/salb/salb_home.htm

=== VMap0 ===

1:1 million vector data. Formerly known as ''Digital Chart of the World''

* see the two articles in [http://grass.osgeo.org/newsletter/index.php ''GRASS Newsletter vol. 3 (June 2005)'']

Check the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Map Wikipedia page] on VMAP, see the links at the bottom of that article to shapefile versions of VMAP0 and VMAP1. Those look like the versions that were, several years ago, on a NIMA (predecessor to NGA, and successor to the Defense Mapping Agency that managed the Digital Chart of the World and VMAP project) Website. Many GRASS users may prefer the shapefiles to the original Vector Product Format data.

* [http://gis-lab.info/qa/vmap0-eng.html VMap0 data in ESRI shape format]

= See also =

* [http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Global_datasets Global datasets] list by T. Hengl (with dataset download)
* http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/
* The FreeGIS.org database: http://www.freegis.org/database/
* http://finder.geocommons.com/
* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources
* http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html
* [http://ckan.net/tag/read/geo Open Knowledge Foundation link collection]
* [http://openweathermap.org/ Open Weather Map] free weather data and forecast API suitable for any cartographic services like web and smartphones applications. Ideology is inspired by OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia that make information free and available for everybody.

=== Metadata Catalogues ===
Catalog Service for the Web (CSW) is an OGC standard for offering access to catalogues of geospatial information over the Internet (HTTP). CSW allow for discovering, browsing, and querying metadata about data, services, and similar resources. A list of Metadata Catalogues / CSW services from member states of the European Union can be found here:<br />
* [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/INSPIRERegistry/ http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/INSPIRERegistry/]<br />
And here: [http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/ http://inspire-geoportal.ec.europa.eu/discovery/] one can search European Metadata Catalogues online.

=== European datasets ===

* [[European datasets]]
* [http://preview.grid.unep.ch/index3.php?preview=data&lang=eng Global Risk Data Platform]
* [http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data/data/ European Commission Opendata Portal]: 5800+ datasets
* [http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/download.php E-OBS] This is the download page for the ENSEMBLES daily gridded observational dataset for precipitation, temperature and sea level pressure in Europe
* [http://mars.jrc.ec.europa.eu/mars/About-us/AGRI4CAST/Data-distribution MARS @ JRC] Temperature, vapour pressure, rainfall, relative humidity, cloud cover, solar radiation, wind speed.
* [http://www.efas.eu/ EFAS @ JRC] is a High resolution pan-European dataset for hydrologic modelling.

=== National datasets ===

* [http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/tech/zap/basic.html Australian Spatial Data Directory]
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GIS_Open_Data Italian Geodata collection]
* [http://koordinates.com/ New Zealand] data from Koordinates.com
* United States from NOAA/USGSs data portal (FIXME: link?)
* [http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ Greek Public Geodata] (in Greek)

=== Various datasets worldwide ===

* [http://geospatial.edublogs.org/ GEOSPATIAL DATA REPORT]: Finding and Using GIS Data
* [http://www.edenextdata.com/?q=data Edenext data portal]: Land Cover, Transport networks, Elevation, Orthoimagery, Human health and safety, Species Distribution, Atmospheric Conditions and Meteorological Geographical Features, Training Program Presentations and Data, Utility and governmental services, Hydrography, Soil, Bio geographical regions, Population distribution and Demographics
* [http://gdex.cr.usgs.gov/gdex/ Global Data Explorer USGS]: ASTER, SRTM, GTOPO etc
* [http://www.landcover.org/ landcover]
* [http://www.gripweb.org/gripweb/?q=data-information GRIPWEB’s Data & Informational Portal]: hazard & risk
* [http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/sets/browse SEDAC]: Agriculture, Climate, Conservation, Framework Data, Governance, Hazards, Health, Infrastructure, Land Use, Marine and Coastal, Population, Poverty, Remote Sensing, Sustainability, Urban, Water
* [http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/maps/?pid:6&pih:2 Prevention Web]: hazard & risk
* [http://data.un.org/Default.aspx UNdata]: UN database
* [http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home.html UNDP home page]
* [http://www.cgiar-csi.org/data global climatic data]
* [http://csi.cgiar.org/cgiargeospatialtools.asp cosortium for spatial information CGIAR-CSI GeoSpatial Toolkits]
* [http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/ inks to over 300 sites providing freely available geographic datasets]
* [http://www.diva-gis.org/Data Free Spatial Data]
* [http://edc2.usgs.gov/glcc/globe_int.php Global Land Cover Characteristics Data Base Version 2.0]
* [http://opentopo.sdsc.edu/gridsphere/gridsphere?cid=datasets A Portal to High-Resolution Topography Data and Tools]
* [http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadghcnd/ HadGHCND] is a gridded daily temperature dataset based upon near-surface maximum (TX) and minimum (TN) temperature observations.

=== WMS servers ===

* See [[WMS]] page

=== River discharge data ===

* [http://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/Home/homepage_node.html Global Runoff Data Centre]
* [http://www.sage.wisc.edu/riverdata/ Global River Discharge Database]
* [http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/River_discharge_data CSDMS]

[[Category: Geodata]]
[[Category: Import]]

Global datasets

2014-01-21T21:13:15Z

⚠️Plantarum: added details for importing the datatables from the harmonized soil database to GRASS

= Raster data =

== Elevation data ==

=== ASTER topography (GDEM V1) ===

Improved ASTER GDEM 1 from 2009:

GDEM global 30m elevation calculated from stereo-pair images collected by the Terra satellite.
''"This is the most complete, consistent global digital elevation data yet made available to the world."''
This is a very new dataset, at version 1 (treat as ''experimental''). Accuracy will be improved in forthcoming versions (validation with SRTM, etc.; [http://blog.neteler.org/aster-gdem-30m-quality-assessment/ see assessment here] and [http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/reviews.html#aster here]).

* ''[https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/lpdaac/about/news_archive/monday_june_22_20092 pre-release announcement]''
* [http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jun/HQ_09-150_ASTER_Topographic_Map.html NASA press release]
* [https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome/ Warehouse Inventory Search Tool] or [http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/search.jsp Easy search tool] (Data download)

'''Tutorial:''' [[ASTER topography]]

''See also: [http://blog.neteler.org/aster-gdem-30m-quality-assessment/ ASTER GDEM 30m quality assessment]''

=== ASTER topography (GDEM V2) ===

Improved ASTER GDEM 2 from 2011:
* https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/products/aster_products_table/astgtm

The ASTER GDEM covers land surfaces between 83°N and 83°S and is comprised of 22,702 tiles. Tiles that contain at least 0.01% land area are included. The ASTER GDEM is distributed as Geographic Tagged Image File Format (GeoTIFF) files with geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude). The data are posted on a '''1 arc-second''' (approximately '''30–m at the equator''') grid and referenced to the 1984 World Geodetic System (WGS84)/ 1996 Earth Gravitational Model (EGM96) geoid.

'''Notes:''' this DEM can be rather well filtered and smoothed with the [http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/neil.mitchell/mdenoise/ Sun's denoising algorithm] (using GDAL and free / open source program <mdenoise> or simply GRASS add-on {{AddonCmd|r.denoise}}.

Experiments showed that the best smoothing of ASTER GDEM 2 is reached with such parameters of <mdenoise>:
* threshold = 0.8
* iterations = 10-20

Also filtering with {{cmd|r.neighbors}} by "average" method and window size >=5 is quite useful to remove some noise from DEM.

''See also: [http://www.isprs2012.org/abstract/299.asp Validation of the ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model Version 2 over the Conterminous United States]''

=== ACE2 ===

The ACE2 Global Digital Elevation Model is available at 3", 30" and 5' spatial resolutions.

* http://tethys.eaprs.cse.dmu.ac.uk/ACE2/

Import example:
r.in.bin -f input="00N105E_3S.ACE2" output="ACE2_00N105E" bytes=4 \
order="native" north=15 south=0 east=120 west=105 \
rows=18000 cols=18000

=== CleanTOPO2 (DEM) ===

* [http://www.shadedrelief.com/cleantopo2/ CleanTOPO2 download]: Edited SRTM30 Plus World Elevation Data

Import in GRASS:
r.in.gdal CleanTOPO2.tif out=cleanTOPO2.tmp -l -o
g.region rast=cleanTOPO2 -p -g
# rescale from odd integer values to true world values
r.rescale cleanTOPO2.tmp out=cleanTOPO2 to=-10701,8248
r.colors cleanTOPO2_final col=terrain

[[Image:CleanTOPO2_map.png|thumb|center|300px|Rescaled ClearTOPO2 map]]

=== EGM2008 Geoid Data (Earth Gravitational Model) ===

Global 2.5 Minute Geoid Undulations:
* download GIS Format at http://earth-info.nga.mil/GandG/wgs84/gravitymod/egm2008/egm08_gis.html

[[Image:Trentino_egm2008_map_5m_resampled.jpg|thumb|center|300px|Geoid undulations in Trentino, Italy]]

Verifications of points can be done with the http://geographiclib.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/GeoidEval

=== ETOPO (DEM) ===

The ETOPO datasets provide global topography and bathymetry at 1', 2', and 5' per-cell resolutions.

==== ETOPO1 (DEM) ====

* http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/

* '''The ''cell registered'' version can be loaded directly into a lat/lon location'''. GRASS raster data is cell registered (see the [[GRASS raster semantics]] page)

* Special care must be taken with the ''grid registered'' version. It can not be loaded directly into a lat/lon location as the parameters found in the .hdr file exceed the limits of polar coordinate space: they have N,S rows which go 1/2 a cell beyond 90 latitude, when considered in the ''cell registered'' convention.
: So the data needs to have those 90deg N,S rows cropped away, and while we're at it we crop away a redundant overlapping column at 180 longitude. To do this we have to first tell the GIS a little fib during import to squeeze the data into lat/lon space, then crop away the spurious rows and column, then finally reset the resulting map's bounds to its true extent.

<source lang="bash">
# Import grid registered binary float, fibbing about its true extent
r.in.bin -f in=etopo1_bed_g.flt out=etopo1_bed_g.raw \
n=90 s=-90 e=180 w=-180 rows=10801 cols=21601 anull=-9999

# reduce the working region by 1 cell
g.region rast=etopo1_bed_g.raw
eval `g.region -g`
g.region n=n-$nsres s=s+$nsres e=e-$ewres -p

# save smaller raster and remove original
r.mapcalc "etopo1_bed_g.crop = etopo1_bed_g.raw"
g.remove etopo1_bed_g.raw

# re-establish the correct bounds, now that they'll fit
r.region etopo1_bed_g.crop n=89:59:30N s=89:59:30S w=179:59:30E e=179:59:30E
g.region rast=etopo1_bed_g.crop

# check that N,S,E,W and Res are all nice and clean:
r.info etopo1_bed_g.crop

# looks good, so accept the results by resetting the map name
g.rename etopo1_bed_g.crop,etopo1_bed_g

# set to use appropriate color rules
r.colors etopo1_bed_g color=etopo2

# set the 'units' metadata field (for elevation data contained within the map)
r.support etopo1_bed_g units=meters
</source>

* For the problematic ''grid registered'' version, the resulting {{cmd|r.info}} report should look like:
| Rows: 10799 |
| Columns: 21600 |
| Total Cells: 233258400 |
| Projection: Latitude-Longitude |
| N: 89:59:30N S: 89:59:30S Res: 0:01 |
| E: 179:59:30E W: 179:59:30E Res: 0:01 |
| Range of data: min = -10898 max = 8271 |
(the east and west bounds of the map touch 1/2 a cell west of 180 longitude)

* For the problematic ''grid registered'' version, since the data's grid is 1/2 a cell shifted from nicely rounded 1 arc-minutes (0:01), you'll need to ensure that the mapset's region preserves that alignment after zooming or panning:
g.region align=etopo1_bed_g -p
: (or oversample and set the region resolution to 1/2 arc-minutes (0:00:30), which will be four times as slow)

==== ETOPO2 (DEM) ====

* See the ETOPO2 (2' global) article by M.H. Bowman in the [http://grass.osgeo.org/newsletter/GRASSNews_vol1.pdf GRASS Newsletter, 1:8-11, August 2004].
: [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/fliers/01mgg04.html ETOPO2v2 data download] (take for example the ETOPO2v2g_f4_LSB.flt file)

=== GTOPO30 (DEM) ===

* Data [http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/gtopo30_info download] - Import with {{cmd|r.in.gdal}}.

''Note:'' To avoid that the GTOPO30 data are read incorrectly, you can add a new line "PIXELTYPE SIGNEDINT" in the .HDR to force interpretation of the file as signed rather than unsigned integers. Then the .DEM file can be imported. Finally, e.g. the 'terrain' color table can be assigned to the imported map with r.colors.

=== Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data 2010 (GMTED2010) ===

* Data [https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/GMTED2010 download] - Import with {{cmd|r.in.gdal}}.

Import of GMTED2010 tiles in GRASS GIS:

r.in.gdal 30N000E_20101117_gmted_mea075.tif out=gmted2010_30N000E_20101117
r.colors gmted2010_30N000E_20101117 color=elevation
g.region rast=gmted2010_30N000E_20101117
r.shaded.relief gmted2010_30N000E_20101117 units=meters
d.mon x0
d.rast gmted2010_30N000E_20101117.shade
d.grid 1 color=red textcolor=red

[[Image:Gmted2010_30N000E_20101117_shaded.png|thumb|center|300px|GMTED2010 example: Trento - Garda Lake - Verona area (Northern Italy)]]

=== GEBCO Bathymetric Chart ===

* The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (original 1' release 2003, new 1' and 30" releases 2008)
: http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/
: http://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/online_delivery/gebco/

{{cmd|r.in.gdal}} can be used to import the GMT netCDF files directly, or if that doesn't work you can use GMT tools to convert to an old-style native GMT format and import that with {{cmd|r.in.bin}}.
: example: (GEBCO 2003 1' data)

# convert to an old style GMT binary .grd using grdreformat
$ grdreformat 3n24s47w14w.grd 3n24s47w14w_Native.grd=bs

# then import into GRASS,
GRASS> r.in.bin -h -s bytes=2 in=3n24s47w14w_Native.grd out=3n24s47w14w

# and set some nice colors
GRASS> r.colors 3n24s47w14w rules=- << EOF
nv magenta
0% black
-7740 0:0:168
0 84:176:248
0 40:124:0
522 68:148:24
1407 148:228:108
1929 232:228:108
2028 232:228:92
2550 228:160:32
2724 216:116:8
2730 grey
2754 grey
2760 252:252:252
2874 252:252:252
2883 192:192:192
2913 192:192:192
100% 252:252:252
EOF

=== Global Multi-Resolution Topography (GMRT DEM) ===
: ''From Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory''
(it is reported that this is what Google Maps uses for their global bathymetry)

* Global ~1 arc-second (~90 m) topography using multi-beam and satellite data in the oceans combined with SRTM on land.
* Full information at: http://www.marine-geo.org/portals/gmrt/
* Accessible via [http://www.geomapapp.org/ GeoMapApp] or [http://www.virtualocean.org/ Virtual Ocean] software.
* Very convenient to download into GRASS via wget:

export `g.region -g`
wget "http://www.marine-geo.org/cgi-bin/getgridB?west=${w}&east=${e}&south=${s}&north=${n}&resolution=1" -O /tmp/test.grd
r.in.gdal /tmp/test.grd output=GMRT -o
rm /tmp/test.grd

* Note: Downloaded file contains no projection information, but is EPSG:4326 (WGS84 Geographic). The file size is limited, but lower resolution (resolution=2,4,8) data can be downloaded for larger areas.

=== Smith and Sandwell DEM ===

* Merge info here from the [[Marine Science]] wiki page

=== SRTM DEM ===

[http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/srtm/ Space Shuttle Radar Topography Mission]
* see [[HOWTO import SRTM elevation data]]

=== SRTM30plus data DEM ===

SRTM30plus data consists of 33 files of global topography in the same format as the SRTM30 products distributed by the USGS EROS data center. The grid resolution is 30 second which is roughly one kilometer.

Land data are based on the 1-km averages of topography derived from the USGS SRTM30 grided DEM data product created with data from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. GTOPO30 data are used for high latitudes where SRTM data are not available.

Ocean data are based on the Smith and Sandwell global 2-minute grid between latitudes +/- 72 degrees. Higher resolution grids have been added from the LDEO Ridge Multibeam Synthesis Project and the NGDC Coastal Relief Model. Arctic bathymetry is from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (IBCAO).

All data are derived from public domain sources and these data are also in the public domain.

GRASS 6 script <code>r.in.srtm</code> described in GRASSNews vol. 3 won't work with this dataset (as it was made for the original SRTM HGT files). But you can import SRTM30plus tiles into GRASS this way:

r.in.bin -sb input=e020n40.Bathmetry.srtm output=e020n40_topex bytes=2 north=40 south=-10 east=60 west=20 r=6000 c=4800
r.colors e020n40_topex rules=etopo2

; Source
: GRASS Users Mailing List http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2005-August/030063.html
; Getting as SRTM30plus tiles: ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/srtm30_plus/srtm30/data/
; Getting as SRTM30plus huge file: ftp://topex.ucsd.edu/pub/srtm30_plus/topo30/
; SRTMPLUS WCS server: http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/autotest/gdrivers/data/srtmplus.wcs (read with {{cmd|r.external}}

== Soil data ==

=== Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD Database) ===

Download: http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/

[http://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/DataDesc.html?sb=12 Spatial reference system:] [http://spatialreference.org/ref/epsg/4326/ EPSG:4326] (LatLong WGS84)

Import:
grass70 -c EPSG:4326 ~/grassdata/hwsd
# -e: expand location to dataset; -o: override (missing) projection in input dataset:
r.in.gdal input=hwsd.bil output=hwSoil -e -o
g.region rast=hwSoil -p
r.category hwSoil

The data is distributed with an MSAccess .mdb which contains additional data for each of the categories in the raster file. Opening the file in access, the data is found in the query "HWSD_Q". Save this query in .csv format (with a name like "HWSD_Q.csv") so that it may then be imported into GRASS. Before you can import it, you also need a file "HWSD_Q.csvt", which contains a single line listing the type for each column in the database:
"Integer","String","Integer","Integer","Integer","String","Integer","Integer","Real","Integer","String","Integer","String","Integer","String","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Integer","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real","Real"

With both the .csv and the .csvt file in the same directory, you can then import them into GRASS:
db.in.ogr dsn=~/grassdata/hwsd/HWSD_Q.csv output=hwsdData

The data cannot be connected directly to the raster, it must be converted to a vector first:
g.region rast=hwSoil
r.to.vect -v in=hwSoil out=hwSoil feature=area
v.db.droptable hwSoil
db.droptable -f hwSoil # delete the table completely

Now we can connect the map and the table:
v.db.connect -o map=hwSoil table=hwsdData driver=sqlite key=MU_GLOBAL

To create a new raster map taking the values from the table:
g.region rast=hwSoil ## make sure we get the whole map
v.to.rast in=hwSoil out=T_SAND col=T_SAND

== Imagery ==

=== AVHRR ===

* see the [[AVHRR]] wiki page

=== Blue Marble imagery ===

NASA's Blue Marble is a 500m-8 degree per-cell world wide visual image of the Earth from space, with the clouds removed.

* see the [[Blue Marble]] wiki page

=== EO-1 imagery ===

(Earth Observing-1)
* "''Advanced Land Imager (ALI) provides image data from ten spectral bands (band designations). The instrument operates in a pushbroom fashion, with a spatial resolution of 30 meters for the multispectral bands and 10 meters for the panchromatic band.''"
:-- http://eros.usgs.gov/products/satellite/eo1.php
* On-board Atmospheric Corrections

=== Global Land Cover Characteristics ===

USGS ''et al.'' generated dataset at 1km resolution. Provides global landcover characteristics.

* see the [[Global Land Cover Characteristics]] wiki page

=== LANDSAT imagery ===

Since October 1, 2008 all Landsat 7 ETM+ scenes held in the [http://landsat.usgs.gov/ USGS EROS archive] are available for download at no charge.
* Download via the [http://glovis.usgs.gov/ Glovis] online search tool (req. Java)
* Download via the USGS's [http://edcsns17.cr.usgs.gov/EarthExplorer/ EarthExplorer] interface

==== Import Modules ====

* {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} - Main import tool for complete multiband scenes
* {{cmd|r.in.wms}} - Download data covering current map region via WMS server
* [[GRASS_AddOns#r.in.onearth|r.in.onearth]] - WMS frontend for NASA's OnEarth Global Landsat Mosaic
* {{cmd|i.landsat.rgb}} - Color balancing/enhancement tool

==== See also ====

* Processing tips can be found on the [[LANDSAT]] wiki page

=== Miscellaneous ===

==== Data sources ====

* Some datasource links: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ben/gmt.html
* [http://www.geotorrent.org/browse.php Geotorrent.org]

==== Import Modules ====
* The {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} modules may be used to import data of [http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html many formats], including GMT netCDF
* The {{cmd|r.in.bin}} module may be used to import raw binary files

=== MODIS imagery ===

* see the [[MODIS]] wiki page

=== Natural Earth imagery ===

* [http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ Natural Earth II]: World environment map in natural color. GeoTIFF (use the {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} module)
* see also 1:10 million, 1:50 million and 1:110million scale maps from http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

=== Orthoimagery ===

* [http://worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Sources_of_free_orthoimagery Sources of free orthoimagery]

=== Pathfinder AVHRR SST imagery ===

* see the Pathfinder [[AVHRR]] SST wiki page

=== QuickBird imagery ===

* See the [[QuickBird]] wiki page

=== SeaWiFS imagery ===

* see the [[SeaWiFS]] wiki page

=== SPOT Vegetation imagery ===

SPOT Vegetation (1km) global: NDVI data sets

* [http://free.vgt.vito.be/ SPOT Vegetation (1km, global) NDVI data set server]
* for import, see {{cmd|i.in.spotvgt}}

=== True Marble imagery ===

* [http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/download True Marble]: 250m world wide visual image of the Earth from space, with the clouds removed. GeoTIFF (use the {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} module)

== Climatic data ==

=== OGC WCS - Albedo example ===

TODO: update this example e.g. to http://demo.mapserver.org/cgi-bin/wcs?SERVICE=wcs&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCapabilities

GRASS imports OGC Web Coverage Service data. Example server (please suggest a better one!)
<WCS_GDAL>
<ServiceURL>http://laits.gmu.edu/cgi-bin/NWGISS/NWGISS?</ServiceURL>
<CoverageName>AUTUMN.hdf</CoverageName>
<Timeout>90</Timeout>
<Resample>nearest</Resample>
</WCS_GDAL>

Save this as albedo.xml. Import into a LatLong WGS84 location:
r.in.gdal albedo.xml out=albedo

Unfortunately this server sends out the map shifted by 0.5 pixel. This requires a fix to the map boundary coordinates:
r.region albedo n=90 s=-90 w=-180 e=180

Now apply color table and look at the map:
r.colors albedo color=byr
d.mon x0
d.rast albedo

=== SNODAS maps ===

[http://nsidc.org/data/docs/noaa/g02158_snodas_snow_cover_model/index.html Snow Data Assimilation System] data that support hydrological modeling and analysis. First download the data, and untar them (once for each month, and once for each day), and you should get pairs of “.dat” and “.Hdr” files. The data files are stored in flat 16-bit binary format, so assuming that “snowdas_in.dat” is the name of the input file, at the GRASS prompt:

r.in.bin -bs bytes=2 rows=3351 cols=6935 north=52.874583333332339 \
south=24.949583333333454 east=-66.942083333334011 west=-124.733749999998366 \
anull=-9999 input=snowdas_input.dat output=snowdas

=== WorldClim maps ===

[http://www.worldclim.org/ WorldClim] is a set of global climate layers (climate grids) with a spatial resolution of a square kilometer.
* Load into a Lat/Lon WGS84 location (EPSG:4326)
* Import with {{cmd|r.in.bin}} or {{cmd|r.in.gdal}}
* {{cmd|r.in.gdal}} will read .BIL format, see the {{cmd|r.in.srtm}} shell script for hints
* binary format is 2 byte integer. Multiply by 10 using {{cmd|r.mapcalc}} to convert units. See http://www.worldclim.org/format.htm for more information and the [[MODIS]] help page for example of converting raw to data units.

== Population maps ==

=== Gridded Population of the World ===

* http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/global.jsp

Import with {{cmd|r.in.gdal}}, assign population color table with {{cmd|r.colors}}

== Topographic maps ==
=== Soviet topographic maps ===

* [http://en.poehali.org/maps Soviet topographic maps] as geocoded GeoTIFFs

= Vector data =

=== CDC Geographic Boundary and Public Health Maps ===

* http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/maps.htm

=== Global Administrative Areas ===

* GADM is a database of the location of the world's administrative areas (boundaries) available in shapefiles.
: http://gadm.org (extracted by country [http://gadm.org/country here])

* World Borders Dataset including ISO 3166-1 Country codes available in shapefiles.
: http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
* Free GIS data from Mapping Hacks
: http://mappinghacks.com/data/

=== GSHHS World Coastline ===

GSHHS is a high resolution shoreline dataset. It is derived from data in the public domain and licensed as GPL. The shorelines are constructed entirely from hierarchically arranged closed polygons. It is closely linked to the [[GMT]] project.

==== Availability ====

* Download the original data set from http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/index.html. Also available at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhg/latest/.

* The data set, or parts from it, can be extracted from [http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html NOAA's shoreline extractor].
:For GRASS 6 you can download 1:250,000 shoreline data from NOAA's site in Mapgen format, which can be imported with the {{cmd|v.in.mapgen}} module.

* '''ESRI Shapefiles''' of the latest version are available at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhg/latest/. The old 1.6 version is available at ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/GIS/GISData/GSHHS/.

==== Import ====

* Import with the GRASS6 add-on module {{AddonCmd|v.in.gshhs}}

=== OpenStreetMap ===

See the [[OpenStreetMap]] wiki page.

=== SALB ===

Second Administrative Level Boundaries: ''"The SALB dataset is a global digital dataset consisting of digital maps and codes that can be downloaded on a country by country basis."''

* http://www.who.int/whosis/database/gis/salb/salb_home.htm

=== VMap0 ===

1:1 million vector data. Formerly known as ''Digital Chart of the World''

* see the two articles in [http://grass.osgeo.org/newsletter/index.php ''GRASS Newsletter vol. 3 (June 2005)'']

Check the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Map Wikipedia page] on VMAP, see the links at the bottom of that article to shapefile versions of VMAP0 and VMAP1. Those look like the versions that were, several years ago, on a NIMA (predecessor to NGA, and successor to the Defense Mapping Agency that managed the Digital Chart of the World and VMAP project) Website. Many GRASS users may prefer the shapefiles to the original Vector Product Format data.

* [http://gis-lab.info/qa/vmap0-eng.html VMap0 data in ESRI shape format]

= See also =

* [http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Global_datasets Global datasets] list by T. Hengl (with dataset download)
* http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/
* The FreeGIS.org database: http://www.freegis.org/database/
* http://finder.geocommons.com/
* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources
* http://www.geonames.org/data-sources.html
* [http://ckan.net/tag/read/geo Open Knowledge Foundation link collection]
* [http://openweathermap.org/ Open Weather Map] free weather data and forecast API suitable for any cartographic services like web and smartphones applications. Ideology is inspired by OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia that make information free and available for everybody.

=== European datasets ===

* [[European datasets]]
* [http://preview.grid.unep.ch/index3.php?preview=data&lang=eng Global Risk Data Platform]
* [http://open-data.europa.eu/open-data/data/ European Commission Opendata Portal]: 5800+ datasets
* [http://eca.knmi.nl/download/ensembles/download.php E-OBS] This is the download page for the ENSEMBLES daily gridded observational dataset for precipitation, temperature and sea level pressure in Europe
* [http://mars.jrc.ec.europa.eu/mars/About-us/AGRI4CAST/Data-distribution MARS @ JRC] Temperature, vapour pressure, rainfall, relative humidity, cloud cover, solar radiation, wind speed.
* [http://www.efas.eu/ EFAS @ JRC] is a High resolution pan-European dataset for hydrologic modelling.

=== National datasets ===

* [http://asdd.ga.gov.au/asdd/tech/zap/basic.html Australian Spatial Data Directory]
* [http://wiki.gfoss.it/index.php/GIS_Open_Data Italian Geodata collection]
* [http://koordinates.com/ New Zealand] data from Koordinates.com
* United States from NOAA/USGSs data portal (FIXME: link?)
* [http://geodata.gov.gr/geodata/ Greek Public Geodata] (in Greek)

=== Various datasets worldwide ===

* [http://geospatial.edublogs.org/ GEOSPATIAL DATA REPORT]: Finding and Using GIS Data
* [http://www.edenextdata.com/?q=data Edenext data portal]: Land Cover, Transport networks, Elevation, Orthoimagery, Human health and safety, Species Distribution, Atmospheric Conditions and Meteorological Geographical Features, Training Program Presentations and Data, Utility and governmental services, Hydrography, Soil, Bio geographical regions, Population distribution and Demographics
* [http://gdex.cr.usgs.gov/gdex/ Global Data Explorer USGS]: ASTER, SRTM, GTOPO etc
* [http://www.landcover.org/ landcover]
* [http://www.gripweb.org/gripweb/?q=data-information GRIPWEB’s Data & Informational Portal]: hazard & risk
* [http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/sets/browse SEDAC]: Agriculture, Climate, Conservation, Framework Data, Governance, Hazards, Health, Infrastructure, Land Use, Marine and Coastal, Population, Poverty, Remote Sensing, Sustainability, Urban, Water
* [http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/maps/?pid:6&pih:2 Prevention Web]: hazard & risk
* [http://data.un.org/Default.aspx UNdata]: UN database
* [http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home.html UNDP home page]
* [http://www.cgiar-csi.org/data global climatic data]
* [http://csi.cgiar.org/cgiargeospatialtools.asp cosortium for spatial information CGIAR-CSI GeoSpatial Toolkits]
* [http://freegisdata.rtwilson.com/ inks to over 300 sites providing freely available geographic datasets]
* [http://www.diva-gis.org/Data Free Spatial Data]
* [http://edc2.usgs.gov/glcc/globe_int.php Global Land Cover Characteristics Data Base Version 2.0]
* [http://opentopo.sdsc.edu/gridsphere/gridsphere?cid=datasets A Portal to High-Resolution Topography Data and Tools]
* [http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadghcnd/ HadGHCND] is a gridded daily temperature dataset based upon near-surface maximum (TX) and minimum (TN) temperature observations.

=== WMS servers ===

* See [[WMS]] page

=== River discharge data ===

* [http://www.bafg.de/GRDC/EN/Home/homepage_node.html Global Runoff Data Centre]
* [http://www.sage.wisc.edu/riverdata/ Global River Discharge Database]
* [http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/River_discharge_data CSDMS]

[[Category: Geodata]]
[[Category: Import]]

User:Plantarum

2014-01-21T20:56:15Z

⚠️Plantarum: Added link to my website for more biographical info

Hi!

I'm Tyler Smith, a botanist with some experience with ecological niche modelling and associated GIS analysis. I have also written an Emacs mode for interacting with GRASS, 'grass-mode', available from the MELPA package repository. More info about me is at my [http://plantarum.ca website].