[GRASSLIST:3771] Re: unable to initialize GDAL bridge

[Glynn Clements]

Grant Yip wrote:

> Hi, I'm a grass beginner and am running into a problem with 
> r.in.gdal.  Whenever I try to import a file, I receive the following error:
> 
> GBBridgeInitialize() failed to find an suitable GDAL .DLL/.so file.

[snip]

> I am running Grass53 in Cygwin in Windows XP Pro.  The version of GDAL that 
> I built from source is 1.2.1.  Thanks in advance.

On Cygwin, you have to use the --with-gdal configure switch.

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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>