[Gdal-dev] Building GDAL with GEOS in Unix

[Mateusz Loskot]

Elavazhagan.M wrote:
> 
> Can anyone please guide me how to enable GEOS Support in GDAL (Unix)? I
> have installed Geos 3.0.0rc2 in my system and configured GDAL 1.32 with
> the following commands:
> 
> “./configure –with-geos=yes”. This did not work so I tried with
> “./configure  --with-geos=/root/usr/bin/geos-config” also.
> 
> Although these commands worked well and I successfully installed GDAL,
> when I run the command “ogr2ogr”, it gives the following error message:
> 
> “ERROR 6: Geos support not enabled”


Could you check if the configuration summary printed after ./configure
does finish its job, includes GEOS support enabled (marked with yes)?

> Do I need to change anything in the makefiles of GDAL?

No, you should not need to hack any makefiles.

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net