[gdal-dev] Building GDAL on linux with minimal drivers

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 30 March 2017 at 16:48, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
> On jeudi 30 mars 2017 07:34:35 CEST Kurt Schwehr wrote:
>
>> At one point, I had a autoconf configure setup that was pretty minimal.
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>> While it built, it was not so much fun to work with.  Here are some
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>> remnants of notes that might constitute the beginnings of a
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>> sourceme-minimal.sh.  More will likely be needed depending on libs are
>
>> already installed on your machine.  And gdal without many of these libs
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>> (e.g. proj4, geos, libz/zlib) is just frustrating.
>
>
>
> As it seems several people have needs for minimized builds, perhaps they
> should consider upstreaming their efforts with build options (like --minimal
> and then --with-XXXX to selectively enable drivers), and the potential code
> refactoring that might make it easy. I think a continuous integration target
> that would test that would be needed to ensure this doesn't get broken by
> later developments.


BTW, I'm not sure what is wrong with the manual minimal build
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnUnixWithMinimizedDrivers
FYI, I used it two weeks ago, and update the wiki.

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net