[Gdal-dev] Coordinate transform problem

[Frank Warmerdam]

Chapman, Martin wrote:
> New question:  I installed gdal 1.2.3 on windows and it compiled with no
> problem.  Now I'm installing on Linux and I'm getting the following
> compiler error listed below.  Basically it can't find the geos libs (I
> think).  I already have geos loaded on my linux box with
> PostGIS/Postgres and I'm wondering if that could be causing the problem
> (older geos version).  Question is...do I also need to load geos
> seperately from gdal in 1.2.3, or is that part of the gdal source now?

Martin,

GDAL requires GEOS 2.0 or newer if you want GEOS support.  The GEOS source
is not part of GDAL so you need to pre-build and install GEOS if you
want to configure GDAL with it.   I don't know if PostGIS is using
GEOS 2.0 yet or not. I haven't actually tried to GEOS enable my PostGIS
installation yet.

Best regards,

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