[Gdal-dev] missing libproj.so

[Frank Warmerdam]

Norman Vine wrote:
> Frank Warmerdam writes:
> 
>>Matt Wilkie wrote:
>>
>>>The command you gave me compiled okay (no errors) and I copied the 
>>>results into $prefix/bin and $prefix/lib.  However gdalwarp still 
>>>complains about "Unable to load PROJ.4 library (libproj.so)". Do I need 
>>>to symlink libproj.dll.a to libproj.so or something?
>>
>>I would suggest that, yes.
> 
> 
> Note on further investigation 
> 
> I see that there is a provision for compiling PROJ_STATIC
> in ogrct.cpp but that this isn't a configurable option so you should
> be able to do something like
> 
> ./configure $your_gdal_configure_options
> export PROJ_STATIC=1; make
> 
> and you will link against the static library and the opendll call
> will not be made
> 
> perhaps PROJ_STATIC support can be added to the configure script ?

Matt / Norman,

I think you would have to edit -DPROJ_STATIC into the GDALmake.opt file.
I don't think setting it as an environment variable will have the desired
effect.

Anyone (Alessandro?) interested in adding PROJ_STATIC configure support?

Best regards,
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