<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>To slightly answer my own question - there is nothing wrong with the code - if I manual add the right mdal.dll for the gdal version and the right build of the python package it does work.<br><br>I guess the question is all going to be about packaging.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 13:04, Paul Harwood <<a href="mailto:runette@gmail.com" target="_blank">runette@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">You will remember that there are <a href="https://github.com/ViRGIS-Team/mdal-python" target="_blank">Python bindings for MDAL </a><div><br></div><div>These were upgraded to both Read and Write earlier in the year, although the documentation is running way behind :(</div><div><br></div><div>In response to a request, these are now available from PyPI as `pip install mdal-python`. In a similar way to GDAL and PDAL, these pip based bindings will only work if MDAL is already installed on the machine.<br><br>The request also asked if mdal could then be used in the QGIS Python Console.<br><br>The current state is that `pip install mdal-python` can be used in the OSGEO shell and works correctly and the Python bindings package is then accessible in the Python Console but it does not work because MDAL (in the form of mdal.dll / libmdal.so / libmdal.dylib) is not installed in QGIS.<br><br>I thought that QGIS was using MDAL but I guess it is installed in a different way.<br><br>Does anyone know how this can be addressed?<br><br></div></div>
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