How to compile an extension from scratch? The CSV virtual table in particular
(1) By anonymous on 2020-05-16 12:20:20 [link]
I'm trying to get the CSV virtual table working as per example on <https://www.sqlite.org/csv.html>: ``` .load ./csv CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE temp.t1 USING csv(filename='thefile.csv'); SELECT * FROM t1; ``` But I don't understand the compilation process. I'm on MacOS and installed `sqlite3` with Homebrew. Now I've got just one file `csv.c` from the [repo mirror on GitHub](https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite) and try to compile it in an arbitrary directory as described on <https://www.sqlite.org/loadext.html>: ``` % gcc -g -fPIC -dynamiclib csv.c -o csv.dylib csv.c:643:27: error: use of undeclared identifier 'SQLITE_VTAB_DIRECTONLY' sqlite3_vtab_config(db, SQLITE_VTAB_DIRECTONLY); ^ 1 error generated. ``` `Makefile.in` does not contain much traces of `csv.c`. A user on StackOverflow followed a different path and didn't succeed either: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59969377/how-to-compile-sqlite3-extension-csv-virtual-table> What steps should I follow from the very beginning to get `.load ./csv` working?
(2) By Richard Hipp (drh) on 2020-05-16 16:51:31 in reply to 1 [link]
Try adding "`-I.`" to the gcc command-line (which really should be "clang" on Mac, but they have "gcc" as an alias). The -I. will tell the compiler to pick up the include files from the local directory rather than from the system. The `SQLITE_VTAB_DIRECTONLY` macro is a recent addition and probably has not made it into whatever version is currently installed on your Mac.
(3) By anonymous on 2020-05-17 11:13:09 in reply to 2
It works! Thank you very much! Here's the full script for compiling the CSV extension from scratch (based on <https://www.sqlite.org/loadext.html> and <https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/master/README.md>): ``` wget https://www.sqlite.org/src/tarball/sqlite.tar.gz tar xzf sqlite.tar.gz mkdir bld cd bld ../sqlite/configure make gcc -g -I. -fPIC -dynamiclib ../sqlite/ext/misc/csv.c -o csv.dylib ``` And testing it: ``` echo -e 'col_text,col_int\napples,3\noranges,5' > sample.csv ./sqlite3 '' '.load csv' 'CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE temp.t1 USING csv(filename="sample.csv");' 'SELECT * FROM t1;' ```