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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Thanks for the information Kai. I will look into it next week after the holiday weekend. It must be something on my system. Sorry to bother you with it but thank you so much for all your feedback. I really love using GDAL and all the great work you people have done throughout the years!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual'>Martin Chapman</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Kai Pastor, DG0YT <dg0yt@darc.de> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 1, 2025 1:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> mchapman@hyperacktive.com; 'Even Rouault' <even.rouault@spatialys.com>; gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] Building GDAL from VCPKG fails with FreeXL<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>- The freexl port builds in vcpkg CI, and there are no open issues for Windows.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- Either there are log files for the actual error, reported on the console, or it fails early for example because of mixing different msys2/cygwin runtimes.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- freexl is an optional feature of port gdal. If nothing asks for it, it is not enabled in port gdal.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- However, libspatialite is a default feature of port gdal, and freexl is a default feature of port libspatialite. ATM it is not possible to opt-out from libspatialite[freexl], but this will be fixed with port gdal 3.11.1.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>- To opt-out from all default features of a port, you must declare this in the top-level manifest (manifest mode) or by using the pseudo feaure "core" (classic mode). The reason why you can't do this now with libspatialite[core] is that gdal[libspatialite] implicitly depends on the default features of port libspatialite.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kai Pastor<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Am 29.06.25 um 19:11 schrieb Martin Chapman via gdal-dev:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Even,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I didn’t save the exact message but it was fairly non descriptive. It was something like BUILD_FAILED. Sorry, my bad for not saving the exact message. It sounds like it may have just been my environment and if it’s not critical then I can live without it. If no one else is complaining then I wouldn’t waste time looking into it. If I have time later I will try to rebuild and reproduce the error, it just takes an hour to build so can’t do it right now. Thanks for your help though!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Martin Chapman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From:</b> Even Rouault <a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com"><even.rouault@spatialys.com></a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 29, 2025 3:33 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:mchapman@hyperacktive.com">mchapman@hyperacktive.com</a>; <a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [gdal-dev] Building GDAL from VCPKG fails with FreeXL<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p>Martin,<o:p></o:p></p><p>what error messages did you get when trying with FreeXL ?<o:p></o:p></p><p>Removing the FreeXL dependency removes support for the old prior-to-Excel-2007 binary XLS format. So usually not a big deal<o:p></o:p></p><p>Even<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Le 29/06/2025 à 02:45, Martin Chapman via gdal-dev a écrit :<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>All,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I tried to build GDAL 3.11.0 from <a href="https://vcpkg.io/en/package/gdal">https://vcpkg.io/en/package/gdal</a> and FreeXL kept failing on my Windows 11 box using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit) – Current Version 17.14.7. To resolve the issue I built a custom-overlay port and removed FreeXL from the build and then everything built great. I tried to just build FreeXL using VCPKG and that failed so I was wondering if it’s just my machine that is messed up or are others having issues as well? By removing FreeXL will I be crippling any other drivers that may depend on it? I looked at the docs and it didn’t seem that important? Also, is there a way to specify what drivers not to build without doing a custom-overlay port?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Martin Chapman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>gdal-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.spatialys.com">http://www.spatialys.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>My software is free, but my time generally not.<o:p></o:p></pre></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>gdal-dev mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org">gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>