Downloading Spatialite Tools binaries for Windows

[ckgoo...@gmail.com]

Hi, I feel real daft for asking this but I’ve been googling for 20 minutes or more with no success.

I want to import shapefiles containing polygons into a Spatialite database so it looks like I want the Spatialite Tools containing spatialite.exe so I can use CLI commands like importsfh as described in section 3.2 of:

https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-tutorial-2.3.1.html

But I cannot find a link to download binaries for this bundle of tools.  I can download the source code at:

https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/spatialite-tools/index

But I really want the binaries.

Please can anyone help by providing a link to a suitable page?  I feel like I’m missing something.

Best, Chris

[a.fu...@lqt.it]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 20:44:12 +0100, ckgoo...@gmail.com wrote:
> I want to import shapefiles containing polygons into a Spatialite
> database so it looks like I want the Spatialite Tools containing
> spatialite.exe so I can use CLI commands like importsfh as described
> in section 3.2 of:
>
> https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite-tutorial-2.3.1.html
>

Hi Chris,

note that version 2.3.1 is incredibly old (released in 2009,
15 years ago) amd nowaday is completely oudated and superseded.
It's real archaeological material, I doubt very much that it
could still contain anything useful.

> But I cannot find a link to download binaries for this bundle of
> tools. I can download the source code at:
>
> https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/spatialite-tools/index
>
> But I really want the binaries.
>
> Please can anyone help by providing a link to a suitable page? I feel
> like I'm missing something.
>

Unfortunately many people have confused ideas about the concept
of free and open source software.
As the name suggests, what absolutely needs to be shared
transparently is the source code and not the binary
executables.

There's a very good reason for this: it's supposed that
anyone who knows how to use a compiler will be able to
build their own binary executables for any platform.

Instead the number of different platforms is practically
infinite (Widows, Linux, Android, MacOsX with all their
respective variants and versions) so it's practically
impossible to support them all.

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SpatiaLite directly supports only one binary distribution,
the one for Windows.
If that's what you're interested in, you can find it here:

https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/

(look for the orange panel "MS Windows binaries)

bye Sandro

[ckgoo...@gmail.com]

Hello Sandro, many thanks. I've now downloaded the binaries and made good use of them.
To explain a bit. It is sometimes difficult to find the important part of a web page when using a screen reader. A nice bright orange panel doesn't help. All the text has the same importance and I just have to go from top to bottom. So it can be tricky to find the bit I need.
Best, Chris

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