[GRASSLIST:3775] Re: unable to initialize GDAL bridge

[Michael Barton]

On Jun 28, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Multiple recipients of list 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.
>  The following filenames were searched for:
>    o libgdal.1.1.so
>    o gdal.1.0.so
>    o gdal.so.1.0
>    o libgdal.so.1
>
>  The following locations were searched:
>    o /usr/local/grass53/lib
>    o System default locations.

Grant,

Try downloading the GDAL at Rich Greenwood's site (www. 
greenwoodmap.com). Rich maintains binaries of GRASS for Cygwin. I 
believe that he has a binary GDAL for windows, including the needed 
*.dll.

Here is what one of my student's worked out this past Spring about 
where it needs to go.

>> Yes, I got r.in.gdal to work.  Here is what I had to do:
>>
>> -->Place the libgdal.1.1.dll file into WINNT/system folder
>>
>> - then I got an error that "cygjpeg-62.dll" wasn't found,
>> -->so I reinstalled the jpeg library from cygwin
>>
>> - then I got an error that "cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll" couldn't be found,
>> -->so I had to reinstall the openssl/openssl-0.9x libraries (I chose 
>> all three
>> or so of them)
>>
>> Then GRASS r.in.gdal decided to work for me.  Now I just have to 
>> figure out
>> which data I actually wanted to import with this!



>
>
>  ERROR: Unable to initialize GDAL bridge (check libgdal
>         installation/LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable).
>  mail: not found
>
>
> 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.
>


Hope this is helpful
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