Hi all!
I would like to share a few thoughts about building SQLite on Windows using
MingW and MSYS.
I have downloaded the full source package and after unpacked I used MSYS to
run configure with --prefix option to change the path where "install" would
place libraries and binaries.
The build in MSYS using the Makefile that configure generated worked fine, but
when I attempted to run "make install" I got an error since no tclsh was
available.
The error was tricky, since I have run configure with --disable-tcl and so no
tcl libraries should have been built.
Reading the error better I discovered the problem was that "make install"
tried to build the amalgamation.
Why building the amalgamation when not asked to using "make sqlite3.c"???
The problem lies in "install" target dependencies as generated by configure
running in MSYS.
The "install" target depends on "sqlite3" and the line in the Makefile looks
like this:
install: sqlite3 libsqlite3.la sqlite3.h ${HAVE_TCL:1=tcl_install}
For reasons I not had time to investigate, make gets "sqlite3" dependency as
sqlite3.c (the amalgamation!) and tries to build it using tclsh.
Just renaming "sqlite3" to "sqlite3.exe" in both lines:
install: sqlite3.($TEXE) libsqlite3.la sqlite3.h ${HAVE_TCL:1=tcl_install}
and
$(LTINSTALL) sqlite3.($TEXE) $(DESTDIR)$(exec_prefix)/bin
solved the problem and I was able to "make install" work properly.
So the question is why does configure does not generate sqlite3.exe instead in
MSYS?
Best
Paolo
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