[gdal-dev] Status of Spatialite support

[Armin Burger]

Even

thanks for the reply. I downloaded the 1.7 dev version and used the flag

--with-spatialite=/usr/local/include/spatialite

But the configure output was

checking for SpatiaLite... checking for spatialite_init in 
-lspatialite... yes
disabled

and then from the summary at the end:

  SpatiaLite support:        no

The installation of the spatialite libraries did no add a 
'spatialite_init' file. All files installed were under 
/usr/local/include/ and /usr/local/lib.

Is there anything to change for running configure?

Best regards

Armin

On 22/05/2009 12:13, Even Rouault wrote:
> Armin,
> 
> There is already some spatialite support in GDAL 1.6 that enables to read 
> simple SpatiaLite geometries (point, linestring, polygon) without needing to 
> link against libspatialite.
> 
> In GDAL 1.7dev, write support has also been added, as well as creating 
> SpatiaLite compatible databases.
> Yesterday, I've finally added the (optionnal) capability to link against 
> libspatialite instead of libsqlite3, to benefit from the spatial enabled SQL 
> functions that it provides (spatial queries + spatial indexing). So 
> spatialite support should be mostly complete by now.
> 
> You should be able to take the ogr/ogrsf_frmts/sqlite directory from trunk in 
> GDAL 1.6, but if you want to benefit from linking against libspatialite, 
> you'll also have to patch configure and GDALmakeopt.in. See 
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/17083
> 
> For the sake of simplicity, if you don't have to deal with sticking to GDAL 
> 1.6 ABI, I'd advise you to grab a snapshot from GDAL 1.7dev.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Even
> 
> Le Friday 22 May 2009 11:13:46, vous avez écrit :
>> Hi everybody
>>
>> I would like to test the spatialite format that should be supported by
>> gdal starting with v1.7. Is it already working in current dev version (I
>> would mainly need the read functionality with spatial index support in
>> interaction with Mapserver)?
>>
>> Would I need to take the full export of current trunk or could I just
>> use gdal 1.6 and add the sqlite directory from trunk?
>>
>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> Armin
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