[Qgis-user] Updated GdalTools

[William Kyngesburye]

It's still not finding the GDAL programs.

I don't think you need to set the GDAL data or driver paths in a normal GDAL installation, they're built into the binaries.  But when GDAL is bundled in the Qgis application for the standalone Qgis, the data path needs to be set to the bundled GDAL.  Any add-on drivers will be installed outside of Qgis in the defined driver path, so you don't need to worry about this with a bundled GDAL.

The python setting could be tricky (on any system even) - python scripts run from Qgis use the compiled-in python interpreter, and so are hardwired to a specific python installation.  But python scripts executed externally (are GDAL python programs executed externally or from the internal interpreter?) will run the default python on the user's system, which may or may not be the same used by Qgis.

On May 18, 2010, at 11:54 AM, Alexander Bruy wrote:

> Hi William
> 
> I tried to fix this issue in latest experimental GdalTools (r291).
> Settings dialog added where user can select directory with GDAL
> binaries. I'm no sure if it necessary to set/customize other variables
> such as GDAL_DATA and PYTHONHOME.
> 
> I can't test this fix (I don't have a Mac and don't know any person
> with it). Please test and report if it work.
> 
> On Sun, 16 May 2010 13:38:04 -0500
> William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> 
>> I didn't request it directly (just a general request of plugin developers), but did you add a configuration option to set the path to the GDAL programs?  Applications (ie QGIS) on OS X don't get anything from the shell environment, like the PATH, and so won't find the GDAL programs in the GDAL framework (and on older systems for those that compile a non-framework GDAL, /usr/local/bin is not in the default PATH).
>> 
>> There is a hidden mechanism to add environment variables to applications, but most OSX users won't know about it, and there is no built-in way to configure it (just a 3rd-party pref pane).
> 
> Thanks
> 
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> Alexander Bruy
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