[gdal-dev] GDAL Data dir and installed application

[Javier Urien]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> 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.

proj.dll is in the same directory as the application (not in the path)
I will try setting the path, but it shouldn't really matter.

Regards.