[gdal-dev] Re: C#: Gdal on Win64

[Tomas R]

Healthy idea to compile GDAL myself. Not sure it would be so healthy for 
me...It is nice to use FWTools. Very nice since I don't have to worry 
about what I need or not need.

File formats I need to support? Well, whatever the user of my plugin 
chooses to use! Png, gif, tiff, jpeg, rik, geotiff, Jpeg2000.. 
whatever.. The file formats listed here:
http://www.gdal.org/formats_list.html
are those the ones GDAL internally support?


Oh, f_ck. I will give it a try. I guess spend half a day or so to 
download what I need and a couple of hours more to get it all to work. I 
guess I won't be able to create a Win64 version on my computer? Or may I 
not at all need a specific Win64 version  if I remove all FWTools stuff?
Proj4 - for Win32, just need to download from http://proj.maptools.org/ 
and include in the same folder as GDAL is in and GDAL finds it? Or an 
option while building the project?

So - all in all, if I compile the gdal-project and the C# wrappers, 
include the proj4 and then I should have all I need?

Thanks for your patience with me
/Tomas

Tamas Szekeres skrev:
> 2008/3/3, Tomas R <monshi at home.se>:
>   
>>  In essential, what I need to be able to do, the use my map plugin has of
>>  GDAL are:
>>  1: Set up a pair of spatial references (OSGeo.OGR), by use of EPSG or
>>  WKT strings, and use in a CoordinateTransformation.
>>  2: Read images/bitmaps from various file formats. Using code close to
>>  the SaveBitmapDirect example found in  the C# tutorial files.
>>
>>     
>
> I think only proj have to be included for option1, but option 2
> depends on the data formats you actually use.
>
>   
>>  In short - what functionality do the FWTools libraries contribute with?
>>  Perhaps I can skip them and just distribute the GDAL binaries and the
>>  proj4 binary? Would that be enough for what I wish todo? And for the
>>  elevation plugin to perhaps? But the I would need to compile GDAL
>>  myself. Or?
>>
>>     
>
> It would be healthy to compile it yourself and include only the
> options you actually use. Then you'll have to deploy only the required
> dll-s along with the plugin. This may provide you a similar .NET FW
> 2.0 compatible package for Win32 just like for Win64.
> Recall that FWTools provides only .NET FW 1.1 compatible assemblies at
> the moment.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>