<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff">I tried to spin up my old Colab notebook for building PDAL from the source for PDAL-2.6.2 in a Colab notebook. It works for me, please check it on your side as well.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff">Here's the link: <a href="https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ovjQcVj_-ejTef5f6-iR4wbGeTpqQpuU?usp=sharing">https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1ovjQcVj_-ejTef5f6-iR4wbGeTpqQpuU?usp=sharing</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff">Currently, it stores the files in the local Colab directory which gets refreshed every time the session is restarted. You can also mount the Gdrive and use that to store files.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff">Hope this helps!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff">Rajat</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;color:#0000ff"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#0000ff">--</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#0000ff">Dr. Rajat Shinde</font></div><font face="georgia, serif" color="#0000ff">Computer Scientist</font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#0000ff">NASA MSFC IMPACT</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#0000ff">The University of Alabama in Huntsville</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#0000ff">Cramer Research Hall/NSSTC 1034</font></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 3:55 PM Speed, Cole M via pdal <<a href="mailto:pdal@lists.osgeo.org">pdal@lists.osgeo.org</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 class="msg1464729666975547638">




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<a href="https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/issues/2432" id="m_4742360112670140331LPlnk" target="_blank">https://github.com/PDAL/PDAL/issues/2432</a>. This solution was proposed by
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 20, 2024 1:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pdal@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">pdal@lists.osgeo.org</a> <<a href="mailto:pdal@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">pdal@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [pdal] PDAL on colab</font>
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<div dir="ltr">I've been trying to get pdal to compile on colab using a variety of approaches but always run into a problem.
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<div>Does anyone have a solution for this?</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance<br clear="all">
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