[gdal-dev] GDAL Data dir and installed application

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Thu May 29 22:18:38 EDT 2008


Javier Urien wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I am developing an application that uses GDAL. I compiled with
> MinGW+Msys on windows. I use proj4 as an external dll.
>    When I install the application on a clean machine (ie not
> developement), I do not get all the georreference information I do on
> the development installation. I found that Gdal apps use the GDAL_DATA
> variable and so I tried setting it to the installation directory
> containing all the .csv gdal provides, but with no success.
> 
>    Any hints on how to accomplish this?

Javier,

Is there any possibility the PROJ.DLL isn't being found?  Is it in the path?
You might try setting the CPL_DEBUG environment variable to ON to get more
information.

Best regards,
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