[Ubuntu] gdal 1.9 with FileGDB API

[Alan Boudreault]

Hi Seb,

I'm afraid that it's easier deploy those kinds of plugin (containing a 
ready binary) in osgeo4w and or on a Windows OS. That's why we have 
provided a source plugin in Launchpad. This source package allows users 
to build the package, whenever they want, any distribution and 
architectures. Of course it is preferable to build the .so plugin on a 
development machine somewhere (that is the same distribution than the 
production one). But after that, the .so can be moved easily.

Yes, all packages has to be rebuilt on their appropriate distributions 
and architectures. That's why Launchpad is so nice. It does most of the 
work for us.

GDAL package cannot include it, even directly. We cannot put the sdk in 
our PPA, so we can't built anything related to that format. Providing a 
hack-package would be hard since there is too many dependencies and I 
would need to support all users deployments, something that I do not 
have to do with the source plugin since I know that if the build script 
work... everything will link properly. That's different than providing a 
.so and guess the user will deploy it correctly.

I hope my explanations make sense to you.

Thanks,
Alan

On 12-06-21 09:12 AM, Seb R wrote:
> Last time, I compiled gdal with fgdb and built a ready-to-install .deb
> file specifying that the folder "FileGDB" was in /usr/local/
> And then compiled and built a ready-to-install .deb file for Qgis1.9
> with gdal1.9 with fgdb.
>
> It was then possible to install it on another machine after having
> downloaded from esri and extracted the FileGDB.zip in /usr/local/
> The problem is that it was possible only for a similar distribution :
> Oneiric 64bits.
> But maybe for both API version 1.1 and 1.2... on 64bits.
> /I don't know how it works to build it for different distributions
> within a ppa... And how it must be tested... etc...
> Do you built it on different virtual machines 32b & 64b to be able to
> release it or are there virtual machine through launchpad ?/
>
> This would surely require a specific ppa for people who want the filegdb
> api.
> This would be a solution like you propose for "libgdal-ecw-src" I guess.
> This would however require people to manually select the packages from
> synaptic.
> I wrote kind of an installation guide for this (see below).
>
> Concerning me, I think I will effectively built it on a virtual machine.
> I didn't think about this before... well...
> This will be easier when (if?) gdal will directly include it.
>
>
>
> ## Installation guide with possible errors encoutered...
> << Info: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FileGDB to compile gdal >>
> << Info: http://georezo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=74322 to compile qgis >>
>
> Download FileGDB_API on
> http://resources.arcgis.com/content/login?destination=content/geodatabases/10.0/file-gdb-download
>
> Extract "FileGDB_API_1_1-64.tar.gz" and copy the file in "/usr/local/"
> directory (you may need the sudo rights)
> Verify that "libxerces" is installed
> (In a terminal:)
> $sudo apt-get install libxerces-c3.1
>
> << Warning: deb files built for a Oneiric_64bits_with_API-1.1>>
> Install gdal1.9.0-1_amd64.deb
> Install qgis1.9-gdal1.9-GDBAPI_amd64.deb
>
>
> --> Test in a Terminal (to verify the presence of "FileGDB")
> $ogrinfo --formats
>
> IF pb=
>      $ gdalinfo --formats
>      gdalinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libgdal.so.1: cannot
>      open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>      --> Is the lib acessible outside of gdal?
>      $ /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep gdal
>
>      -->no gdal1.9:  Let's try adding the path to libgdal.so.1 in
> /etc/ld.so.conf
>
>      $ find /usr -name libgdal.so.1
>      /usr/local/lib/libgdal.so.1
>
>      $ sudo gedit /etc/ld.so.conf
>      --> add
>      /usr/local/lib
>
>      $ sudo ldconfig
>
>      $ /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep gdal
>      --> gdal1.9 is there
>
>
> IF pb=
>      $ gdalinfo --formats
>      gdalinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libxerces-c-3.1.so
> <http://libxerces-c-3.1.so>: cannot
>      open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>      --> the library libxerces is not installed
>      $sudo apt-get install libxerces-c3.1
>
> IF pb=
>      $ gdalinfo --formats
>      gdalinfo: error while loading shared libraries: libFileGDBAPI.so:
> cannot
>      open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>      --> Verify that "FileGDB_API" is in "/usr/local/" directory
>
>      $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/FileGDB_API/lib
>      $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>
>
>
>
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Alan Boudreault
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