Preparing to Use the CC Interface

Preparing to Use the C/C++ Interface

In order to develop software with an embedded SQLite database, you need to make sure your system has the SQLite development library installed. The latest version can always be downloaded from http://www.sqlite.org/download.html.

If you have already installed and used sqlite as a precompiled binary, you will not necessarily have the library yet. For Linux, the precompiled library is sqlite.so.gz and for Windows it is sqlitedll.zip. If you also want to use the TCL bindings, precompiled libraries are available that support this, named tclsqlite.so.gz and tclsqlite.zip respectively.

Users of Red Hat Linux and other Unix-like systems that use the RPM package format can use the sqlite-devel package to install the library along with header files and documentation.

If you compiled SQLite from source, the libraries were installed when you issued the make install command. A default source installation on Linux/Unix will put libsqlite in the /usr/local/lib directory and sqlite.h in /usr/local/include.