[gdal-dev] Including curl in the context of an Android build?

[Even Rouault]

Le mercredi 03 août 2011 21:45:47, Jim Pendleton a écrit :
> I don't fully understand the checking that's being performed in the
> configure utility of GDAL for the -with-curl switch.  This apperas to be
> responsible for overriding the curl_global_init function in a header
> file and including libcurl.so in the LIBS list.  I'm afraid I'm not a
> makefile guru so I'm probably missing something obvious.
> 
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> 
> Regardless of how I set this, the build process for GDAL wants to parse
> files *installed* on the build platform, in this case
> /usr/bin/curl-config under RedHat 5.  The result is that "checking for
> curl_global_init in -lcurl" always returns "no".  It also appears to
> want to reference a dynamic libcurl.so (LIBS="-lcurl $LIBS"), rather
> than allowing a static library as a part of the build.
> 

You might be interested by this fix : http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/4110

> 
> Does GDAL's architecture require a separate libcurl.so to be loaded at
> runtime?  

No, a static build should work fine but might require some configure tweaking.

> And if so, has anyone had any experience with this in the
> Android environment?
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> 
> If anyone could help me out with this, I would very much appreciate it.
> 
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> Thanks,
> 
> Jim P.