<div dir="ltr">I had a look at the mdal provider and it does not seem to expose any mdal symbols.<br><br>Paul<br><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 06:58, Peter Petrik <<a href="mailto:peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk">peter.petrik@lutraconsulting.co.uk</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">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am wondering if mdal provider does not expose the symbols too, so you can use it instead of mdal.dll?</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Kind Regards,</div>Peter Petrík<div>CPO of Mergin Maps</div><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-petrik/" target="_blank">LI</a>, <a href="https://www.merginmaps.com" target="_blank">Mergin Maps</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 11:13 PM Martin Dobias <<a href="mailto:wonder.sk@gmail.com" target="_blank">wonder.sk@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"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Paul</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 2:05 PM 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">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.<div><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></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">QGIS uses its own copy of MDAL and by default the library is built into the mdal provider module, that's why there's no mdal.dll or equivalent. It is also possible to compile QGIS with a custom MDAL library, but because has not been spread much outside of QGIS, using the internal copy makes things simpler.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I can imagine that if there would be demand for it, the OSGeo4W packaging could be updated so that MDAL would be compiled and shipped as a separate package with a dedicated mdal.dll - that's something to raise with the OSGeo4W maintainers I guess...</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Regards</div><div class="gmail_quote">Martin</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div>
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