[gdal-dev] Newby: Compile gdal with perl on Windows / deployment

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Wed Feb 27 08:59:32 PST 2013


You might want to check on the PostGIS list as Regina has a MinGW/MSYS 
tools for building PostGIS and I think this includes GDAL for the raster 
support, but I may be mistaken.

-Steve

On 2/27/2013 11:17 AM, Ari Jolma wrote:
> Helmut,
>
> First, I don't recommend it to anybody to compile Geo::GDAL on Windows.
> I used to do it regularly using the MinGW/MSYS environment and
> self-compiled Perl (now I think I would use Strawberry Perl). Here are
> some links to instructions I've written (at least some of them):
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/geoinformatica/wiki/BuildWithMingw
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/Perl
>
> I tried to build some things in Windows lately (Windows 8 and maybe
> 64bit) but gave up after some time and frustration. I'm not sure what
> the main frustration was (the Geoinformatica stack contains much more
> than just Geo::GDAL).
>
> I don't know of binary builds other than what I used to do. My own is
> getting a bit old already
>
> http://geoinformatics.aalto.fi/files/Geoinformatica/win32/
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ari
>
> On 02/27/2013 03:57 PM, Helmut Seidel M.A. wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> in my comming up perl-project I need to use the Geo::Gdal - module. As
>> I understand I need to compile gdal from sources first and then build
>> the perl bindings. So far so good, but as I'm not a C/C++ developer I
>> ran into a host of problems. The first thing I tried, was to install
>> MinGW and compile gdal with the "--with-perl" option, which ran for
>> about two hours but broke of with a message complaining that perl 5.8
>> was not found on my system (I have ActivePerl 5.16 installed) - as far
>> as I could decipher the message - I tried gdal 1.90 and gdal 1.92.
>> I then tried to compile it using VC 10 which seemed to work but I
>> didn't find a possibility where to put the "--with-perl" option -
>> anyway I tried to compile perl using perl Makefile.PL which imediately
>> complained about being not able to find gdal-conf (which I couldn't
>> find either). I guess there would be lots of complaints after that,
>> but I only got that far.
>> I'm sure my errors have something to do with setting up paths and
>> compilation options, but I dont't know which and where to set them.
>> So here's my question: has anybody a blow by blow account for C/C++
>> dummies how to set up Geo::Gdal? That would be great!
>> Another question is how to deploy the finished application to other
>> computers.
>>
>> I hope you could understand all of my English and my questions are not
>> too stupid - but I spend two working days on it so far so I'm a little
>> desperate now.
>>
>> Thanks and regards
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