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On 01/06/2011 01:18 AM, Tamas Szekeres wrote:
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type="cite"><span dir="ltr">Chris,<br>
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Good points below, but having the compiled gdal binaries (and
the binaries of the dependent libraries) in hand, which is the
right way to install those files on Windows? (Assuming we don't
provide python.exe and the related files in the package)? I mean
which install actions should be done in detail?</span><br>
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"""<br>
Windows binaries built in MinGW are available at:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://map.hut.fi/files/Geoinformatica/win32/"
target="_blank">http://map.hut.fi/files/Geoinformatica/win32/</a><br>
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The Geoinformatica-yy-mm-dd.zip contains GDAL (usually a
development version), Perl-GDAL, Perl, and many other things.<br>
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good for MinGW users, I suppose -- I remember them not working
for me, tough I can't recall how or why not. They also suffer
from perhaps trying to be too much (though if it all worked, I
wouldn't care, I have a fast network and large hard drive)<br>
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I found it impossible to deliver a Windows binary solution, which
would depend on the three main packages (Perl, GTK+, and GDAL) to be
retrieved as binaries from some standard location - that's why I
bundle them all together into a quite large (32MB) package. <br>
<br>
When I started there was only ActivePerl for Windows that was
usable, but it turned out impossible for me to use because they use
MS compilers. Now there is Strawberry Perl, which I might try again
(or pay someone to try). It is good because it uses MinGW.<br>
<br>
There are binary installers for GTK+ for Windows, which install them
into a shared location - but there are problems still and some
pieces are missing that I need (Glade for example). The official
GTK+ site has a long list of zips containing binaries. Despite the
shared nature of GTK+, many projects include own binaries of them in
Windows due to version mismatches etc.<br>
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GDAL is available but again typically as MS compiler builds - which
should not be a problem in theory because the bindings use it
through the C API. I've tried to use those a couple of times without
luck (compiling the bindings in MinGW was the problem). Maybe I
should try again using binaries from Tamas' site.<br>
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I agree that there could be a one main site for GDAL Windows
binaries (something like <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html">http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html</a>).
Tamas' site looks good but I'd like to have dev packages also (the
SDK packages there look old) - just the header files should be
enough. <br>
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Then there could also be a more end-user type Windows installation
package project for GDAL, which installs the stuff into some
standard location (c:\Program Files\share?). For GTK+ that's
provided by some folks at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/</a> <br>
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It would be neat to be able to just put to the Geoinformatica
Windows installer subinstallations, which go and get Perl, GTK+ and
GDAL for the user if she does not yet have them or has too old ones.
In fact Geoinformatica should be simply installable through Perl's
cpan application - but that does not even work in Linux yet :( (the
reason is that the GDAL Perl module installation script is not
intelligent enough and the version of the module in CPAN is horribly
old and I really suck at managing that)<br>
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Best regards,<br>
<br>
Ari<br>
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