[gdal-dev] Minimalist Windows binaries (OGR)

[Matt Wilkie]

Hi Philippe,

It's not ogr only, but if you use OSGeo4W advanced install and select 
just the 'gdal' package you get something which is much lighter weight 
than fwtools with a minimum of fuss.

See http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki

cheers,


matt wilkie
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Philippe Kruschitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The "Building On Windows With Minimized Drivers" page being under 
> construction, I'll take a chance and post my question here.
> 
> What I need are basically binaries for an application that only makes 
> use of the OGR utilities. My application works like a charm with the 
> FWTools, but the whole thing is way to big to be integrated. I tried the 
> "minimalist windows executables" with the PG plug-in on the binaries 
> page, but experienced some problems. First, exporting from a PostGIS DB 
> to a shapefile with ogr2ogr would not create a *.prj file, which it did 
> with the last FWTools (newer version?). Writing the same table to KML 
> didn't work either, my coordinates being (for some obscure reason) 
> totally messed up.
> 
> Now my question, how difficult would it be to build a stripped down 
> version of the library with only the OGR utilities. I builded some 
> things before, but only under Linux (GRASS and other GIS software). My 
> knowledge on this topic is, at the best, rudimentary, but I'm ready to 
> give it a try (I was able to build GDAL from source using the 
> information in the wiki). Is there something like a configuration file 
> (nmake.opt?), where I could only use those things I really needed?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Philippe Kruschitz
> 
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