[gdal-dev] Building GDAL with autoconf for Android on Windows

[Kai Pastor, DG0YT]

git bash, quotes, make, this seems to add a lot of complication when you 
could directly run cmake+ninja for fast builds on windows.

I think you shoudn't try to pass escaped quotes, but just quote the 
whole arguments as in

  ... "-DINST_DATA=/c/prefix_path/shared" 
"-DSYSCONF_DIR=/c/prefix_path/etc" ...

Regards, Kai


Am 31.03.23 um 02:28 schrieb Andrew Patterson:
> Hello!
>
> We've been using a custom CMakeLists.txt for years to build a subset 
> of GDAL for Android but I'm attempting to move us to building it 
> properly. Unfortunately, we can't move to 3.5+ quite yet (I'm hoping 
> soon) so I'm stuck with autoconf. I was happily surprised at how 
> quickly I passed through the configure step (many thanks Google's NDK 
> page with a very helpful autoconf section) but now I'm running into a 
> rather stupid blocker.
>
> I'm building this using git bash on a Windows machine, and I suspect 
> that's the root of my problem. Basically, when I run make on my 
> configured system, it screws up the quoting on INST_DATA & 
> SYSCONF_DIR. The command being executed looks something like:
>
> ... yada yada ... -DINST_DATA=\"/c/prefix_path/shared\" 
> -DSYSCONF_DIR=\"/c/prefix_path/etc\"
>
> If I copy the command being executed and change that part to:
>
> ... yada yada ... -DINST_DATA="\"/c/prefix_path/shared\"" 
> -DSYSCONF_DIR="\"/c/prefix_path/etc\""
>
> It works. It also works if fully remove the defines for INST_DATA & 
> SYSCONF_DIR, which I know is safe because we never defined those in 
> our old CMakeLists.txt and everything worked fine (we were specifying 
> the properly locations ahead of time so it never needed to look in any 
> default places).
>
> Now, obviously manually copying the commands isn't the right fix, but 
> maybe someone knows how to fix the quoting? Or, frankly, is there an 
> option I'm missing (or some other magic trick) to tell it not to 
> include INST_DATA or SYSCONF_DIR at all?
>
> Any help here would be greatly appreciated! This looked like it was 
> going to be a quick job and it turned into a frustrating full-day 
> failure :(
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