[gdal-dev] Adding OSGEO4W and gisinternals docs in install doc?

[Tamas Szekeres]

Currently the refactor is used in the build system. That is now working for
quire some time so that it will be promoted to be the main branch.

Best regards,

Tamas


Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2022. febr.
17., Cs, 19:44):

>
> Le 17/02/2022 à 19:22, Tamas Szekeres a écrit :
>
> To be correct, the latest version of the build scripts (including the
> Makefile) are on the refactor branch:
>
> https://github.com/gisinternals/buildsystem/tree/refactor
>
> nice! I actually see
> https://github.com/gisinternals/buildsystem/blob/refactor/config.opt with
> the URLs of the upstream repositories, and the build commands in
> https://github.com/gisinternals/buildsystem/blob/refactor/Makefile
>
> Is the refactor branch the one used for the builds at gisinternals.com ?
> (said otherwise, why isn't it the master branch ?)
>
>
> Tamas Szekeres <szekerest at gmail.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2022. febr. 17.,
> Cs, 19:19):
>
>> For gisinternals, the entire build including the dependencies is
>> controlled by a single Makefile
>> <https://github.com/gisinternals/buildsystem/blob/master/Makefile> which
>> controls the builds of the dependencies including how to obtain them from
>> the source repositories. The makefile also contains the necessary tweaks
>> that had to be applied in a dependency if that required for a successful
>> build.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Tamas
>>
>>
>> Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> ezt írta (időpont: 2022. febr.
>> 17., Cs, 17:29):
>>
>>> Thomas,
>>>
>>> One criterion currently for inclusion is: "In this section we list a
>>> number of the binary distributions of GDAL all of which should have
>>> fully reproducible open source build recipes."
>>>
>>> I've not evaluated what the current situation of OSGeo4W or gisinternals
>>> is regarding this, especially regarding all direct and indirect
>>> dependencies of GDAL (or course, that must stop at the compiler level
>>> when using Visual Studio). I believe nowadays OSGeo4W must be closer to
>>> that aim of having fully reproducible builds, but I'm not sure to which
>>> extent. For gisinternals I'm not sure. It was my impression that the
>>> build recipees for the dependencies were not available, but maybe I'm
>>> wrong. I'll let the developers of those distributions comment further if
>>> they wish.
>>>
>>> Even
>>>
>>> Le 17/02/2022 à 17:17, Thomas Gratier a écrit :
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I regularly orient third parties to use GDAL utilities and for this
>>> > intent, point them to install section
>>> > https://gdal.org/download.html#binaries
>>> >
>>> > For Windows, I did not see a user friendly section about how to
>>> > install it. I want to mention in the doc how to install with OSGEO4W
>>> > and https://www.gisinternals.com/index.html
>>> > Opinions? If ok, I will do a PR later on the github repo
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Regards
>>> >
>>> > Thomas Gratier
>>> >
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>>>
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>>>
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> My software is free, but my time generally not.
>
>
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