Installing GRASS
From Wildsong
Official [GRASS Web site]
Windows 2000
I have not tried to build GRASS on a Windows system yet. I just download and install the binaries from the GRASS Web site. Current version is 5.7.0
To make porting GRASS to Windows as easy as possible, it runs under "Cygwin". You have to obtain and install it first. Cygwin is a port of the GNU environment to Windows. Since Linux is basically a GNU environment.
Linux
Packages you might want to install first
SQL support
PostgreSQL
MySQL
ODBC
readline support
FFTW
FreeType
GDAL
OGR