[gdal-dev] GDAL Data dir and installed application

[Javier Urien]

On 5/30/08, Javier Urien <javierurien+gdal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

That did it. I had libproj-0.dll, but renamed it to proj.dll and it
works. Thanks