[Gdal-dev] troubles with gdaltindex

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/19/06, Jeff Moxley <jmoxley at grca.on.ca> wrote:
> I am working with MS4W and want to create a WMS for our Ortho Photos.  I am
> attempting to use gdaltindex to create my index file.  When I run gdaltindex
> I get the following message:
>
> ERROR 4: 'images/*.jpg' does not exist in the file system, and is not
> recognized as a supported dataset name.

Jeff,

It would seem the problems it that the gdaltindex in
MS4W was not built with wildcards enabled.   To do
so, it is necessary to build GDAL with the VCDIR
value in nmake.opt properly set, and the SETARGV
line in nmake.opt uncommented.

I am cc:ing Assefa in the hopes he could do this in a
future release.

In the meantime, you might want to download FWTools
and use gdaltindex from that.

Best regards,
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