[gdal-dev] Dropping dlopen/LoadLibrary loading of proj.4 ?

[Even Rouault]

On samedi 6 mai 2017 13:58:06 CEST Even Rouault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently the default mode of linking GDAL with proj.4 is to use dynamic
> loading mechanism (dlopen on Unix, LoadLibary on Windows). I believe the
> reason for that was that it could have make it easier to use an alternate
> projection engine, but apparently nobody cared enough to plug a new one,
> and it could be done with standard linking. One downside of the current
> mechanism (besides code complication) is that it requires to list the exact
> library name of proj4 in GDAL source code, which can change depending on
> the soname of proj4. And this can cause subtle issues like
> https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/6881
> 
> So I'd suggest just keeping standard linking mechanism, and renaming the
> current --with- static-proj4 configure flag as --with-proj4, as the current
> name is confusing, and making it the default behaviour.
> 
> Any thoughts ?

I'm intending to drop support for proj.4 < 4.8 too to do some cleanups

> 
> Even


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