[gdal-dev] Formats question (was Re: JPEG2000 question/issue)

[Nidel, Mike]

It worked like a charm, thanks.

Just a note: disabling gtiff made gdalinfo not build, and jpeg also
had a similar effect on some step of the build. So I reenabled those
and everything builds happily.

much appreciated!

Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:31 AM
> To: Nidel, Mike
> Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Formats question (was Re: JPEG2000 
> question/issue)
> 
> Nidel, Mike wrote:
> > That was what I was looking for, thank you.
> > 
> > Now a new question, is there a way to remove formats from the build 
> > entirely? Obviously there is for formats that require external 
> > libraries, they just don't get uncommented in the 
> nmake.opt. But what 
> > about, for example, disabling NITF at compile time? I would 
> actually 
> > like to disable ALL gdal formats except MrSID, but NITF causes a 
> > particular problem for me because I already have an NITF reader and 
> > there is a conflict in the way I'm loading the readers.
> 
> Mike,
> 
> On windows you can remove the -DFRMT_<format> declarations 
> from EXTRAFLAGS in gdal/frmts/makefile.vc to drop particular 
> standard formats.
> On unix/linux you can remove formats from the GDAL_FORMATS 
> macro in GDALmake.opt after configuring.
> 
> Note that some formats depend on others and so some 
> combinations of removals will not work.
> 
> In applications you can also deregister drivers after calling
> GDALAllRegister() or you can just register selective drivers 
> using their corresponding register calls.
> 
> To deregister a driver do something like:
> 
>    GDALDriverManager *poDM = GetGDALDriverManager();
> 
>    GDALAllRegister();
>    poDM->DeregisterDriver( poDM->GetDriverByName( "NITF" ) );
> 
> To register only selective drivers skip GDALAllRegister() and 
> call the desired registration functions.
> 
> #include "gdal_frmts.h"
> 
> ...
>    GDALRegister_MrSID();
>    GDALRegister_JPEG();
> 
> Best regards,
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