[gdal-dev] How to compile "GDAL from gdal trunk" and qgis from source?

Chaitanya kumar CH chaitanya.ch at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 01:36:10 PDT 2012


Laurent,

Compilation is easy as long as you don't run into any obstacles :-)

Follow these links to read how to get the latest source and how to compile
it for Microsoft Windows.
GDAL:
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource#Subversion
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnWindows
QGIS:
http://hub.qgis.org/projects/quantum-gis/wiki/Download#61-Source-Code
http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html#toc13

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:40 PM, laurent celati <
lcelati at latitude-geosystems.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have posted a message there a few weeks. I asked you a way to compile the
> "last Gdal version from trunk" and Qgis from source targeting your gdal
> source as library in order to use the last Gdal postis raster driver. You
> answered that the last binairies qgis 1.8 version is available with the
> last
> version of gdal (1.9.1) and that it's useless to compile.
>
> I understand your reply. BUT I have talked last days with developpers of
> "Gdal Postgis raster driver". They just add several important updates to
> the
> driver. And they confirm to me that the only way to use the last driver is
> to compile GDAL from gdal trunk and qgis from source using that compilation
> as GDAL version.
> Please to read below few sentences written by those developpers :
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> That's the only way to get the development version working. You have to
> compile GDAL from svn and qgis from source using that compilation as GDAL
> version.
> I'm not following osgeo4w binaries, but I don't think they would
> provide a QGIS build with both gdal and qgis from svn. It's not entirely
> impossible because I know they release a few nightly snapshots.
> So, you have to use the last GDAL version from trunk in order to have the
> last "Gdal Postgis raster driver updates".You just need to compile QGIS
> from
> source targeting your GDAL source as library.I think that if you make any
> header changes you may need to recompile it all since QGIS depends on
> GDAL.So you have to work with last gdal version from trunk.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> I need this last version of Gdal Postgis raster driver on my windows 7-64
> bits station but those developpers working on Linux.
> Could you explain to me the way to compile GDAL from gdal trunk and qgis
> from source using that compilation as GDAL version (sources links to
> download, compilation procédure,etc.). I am a thematician geograph and i am
> a novice in software compilation;-(
>
> In advance, thank you for your reply.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Laurent Celati
>
>
>
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