[gdal-dev] GDAL windows installers available

[Michael Sumner]

Awesome, thanks for this - I've really enjoyed the discussion too, a
great deal of good information there.

I downloaded and ran
http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/Download.aspx?file=release-1600-x64-gdal-mapserver\gdal-18dev-1600-x64-core.msi
on Windows 7 64-bit. I removed an existing path reference to a build
from your site, then started the installed "GDAL 18dev (MSVC 2010
Win64) Command Prompt" shortcut. On running "gdalinfo" I get two
repeated popup errors:

---------------------------
gdalinfo.exe - System Error
---------------------------
The program can't start because OCI.dll is missing from your computer.
Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------

and this in the command window:


C:\Program Files\GDAL>gdalinfo
ERROR 1: Can't load requested DLL: C:\Program
Files\GDAL\gdalplugins\gdal_GEOR.dll
126: The specified module could not be found.

ERROR 1: Can't load requested DLL: C:\Program
Files\GDAL\gdalplugins\gdal_GEOR.dll
126: The specified module could not be found.

Usage: gdalinfo [--help-general] [-mm] [-stats] [-hist] [-nogcp] [-nomd]
                [-norat] [-noct] [-checksum] [-mdd domain]* datasetname

Otherwise it reports fine on a basic GeoTIFF.

Thanks again, and I hope that small detail is of some use.

Cheers, Mike.

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Upon the inspiration on the recent conversation in this topic I've put some
> efforts to automate the creation of a generic GDAL installer derived from
> the distributions available at http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/.
>
> Currently the following options are available from this site to install and
> use GDAL:
>
> 1. Download the .zip package extract it in some location and run
> SDKShell.bat to run the commandline tools (this is the former approach)
> 2. Use the core msi installer to install GDAL and use the installed shortcut
> to run the command line tools.  Python users should install the python
> bindings installer as well.
>
> In order to have the bindings work the location of the core files should be
> added to the PATH manually (this requirement will probably be removed in the
> future when the automatic loader approach is implemented at the bindings)
>
> The core installer places an entry in the registry (currently in HKCU)
> containing the install location which will allow the loader to find the
> required components.
>
> This task is not yet complete, the following issues are to be handled or
> reviewed in some way.
>
> 1. Side by side installation of the multiple versions is not yet supported.
> 2. Must review the license agreement (currently taken from the GDAL site)
> 3. Must review the product name
> 4. Must review the installer design
> 5. Must review the selectable features
> 6. Loader approach to be implemented for the bindings
> 7. Versioning rules should be clarified (should synchronize the registry
> entries among the versions)
> 8. Further fixes
>
>
> The core installer is provided as a single wix project file the build
> process is executed by the command line apps (candle.exe and light.exe). I
> will make the whole approach public as part to the -dev packages at
> http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/. By using this addition one can easily rebuild
> the installer after creating a customized GDAL build.
>
> The wix project file could also be included in GDAL source tree and a new
> target could be added in the gdal makefile for creating the installer (the
> CRT redistributable merge modules and the dependent dlls must be available
> during the build). Having the locations of the OSGeo4w files in place, this
> approach could easily generate the same installer for the OSGeo4w bundle.
>
>
> Any testing efforts / comments / wishes are graciously accepted.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tamas
>
>
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Michael Sumner
Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
Hobart, Australia
e-mail: mdsumner at gmail.com