[gdal-dev] Building with plugins...

[Carl Godkin]

Thanks very much.  (No wonder I couldn't find much information about these
things anywhere!)

carl

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> On lundi 12 juin 2017 08:04:08 CEST Carl Godkin wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> >
>
> > I am interested in building GDAL 2.2.0 with some of the available drivers
>
> > as plugins.
>
> >
>
> > 1. Is the procedure for building GDAL plugins documented anywhere for
>
> > Linux?
>
>
>
> I don't think so. Plugin building in Linux is more experimental/advanced.
>
>
>
> > I see that there are several variables like XXX_PLUGIN listed in
>
> > nmake.opt for Windows but I'd like to use plugins on Linux as well and
>
> > can't see any relevant arguments for "configure" (except
>
> > --enable-pdf-plugin).
>
>
>
> There's also the GRASS plugin that has its own configure. And
> Debian/Ubuntu has a package with a configure to build the ECW (and MrSID I
> think) plugins. Otherwise except for the PDF plugin, you need to tweak
> yourself the makefile if you need a driver build as a plugin.
>
>
>
> >
>
> > 2. Is there a list of which drivers can be built as plugins anywhere? (I
>
> > know that the GISInternals build provides about 10 drivers as plugins but
>
> > the many commented-out drivers in nmake.opt leads me to believe that
> there
>
> > could be even more than that.
>
>
>
> Well, basically the list in nmake.opt should be pretty much what is
> available:
>
>
>
> $ grep _PLUGIN nmake.opt | grep "#"
>
> #ECW_PLUGIN = YES
>
> #JP2LURA_PLUGIN = YES
>
> #TD_PLUGIN = YES
>
> #HDF4_PLUGIN = NO
>
> #HDF5_PLUGIN = NO
>
> #KEA_PLUGIN = NO
>
> # INGRES_PLUGIN = YES
>
> #FITS_PLUGIN = NO
>
> #NETCDF_PLUGIN = NO
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> #OCI_PLUGIN = YES
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> #SDE_PLUGIN = NO
>
> #FGDB_PLUGIN = YES
>
> #AMIGOCLOUD_PLUGIN = YES
>
> #ARCOBJECTS_PLUGIN = YES
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> #SOSI_PLUGIN = YES
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> #PDF_PLUGIN = NO
>
> #MONGODB_PLUGIN = NO
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> # MONGODB_PLUGIN = YES
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> >
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> > Thanks very much,
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> >
>
> > carl
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>
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