R: [gdal-dev] GDAL & Python

[Christopher Barker]

marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:
> I'm building GDAL right now --with-python option enabled; I thought the 
> same as you suggested... but now I'm trying build GDAL without python 
> installed, because the last option enables python bindings, and, I 
> think, this feature would not require python installed;

I'm confused -- are you trying to build the python bindings or not? Also
there are two versions now the "old" ones and the "next generation"
ones. I know the NG ones are built with distutils, which means that the
build process needs to be able to find your python, but once it does,
python+distutils takes care of everything else.

I can't remember how the old bindings are built, but you definitely need
python installed to build them -- they need the python headers, etc.

You should be able to build python bindings with MingGW with a regular
old Windows Python2.5 -- it doesn't need to be a msys install.

Also, it should be possible to build GDAL without python bindings, then
build the python bindings by hand later (with "setup.py build")



marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:
  NOW I have the following build error:
>  
> python setup.py build
>  
> command not found
>  
> HAAHAH... what a stupid I am!
> Ok... go, install Python, add c:\blablabla\python to my sys environment 
> path variable and redo make command!

I'd think there would be a way to tell configure the path to your python
executable as well.

-Chris


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