[gdal-dev] Creation of a new driver from scratch

[Abel Pau]

Hi again.

Finally I managed to use CMake to create a Visual Studio sln. And it's beautiful see all drivers there.
But it's not crear for me what I have to modify (Cmakelist.txt,.. or something else) to include the new driver. I need it to be there to be able to debug.
I created a copy of, let's say, Shape and modified the Cmakelists.txt in an apropriate way... but I miss something because recompiling and rebuilding doesn't change anything and my driver is not in the project.

Anyone can make me a simple list of which files I have to modify?
THANKS in advance!!!

Abel.

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> 
Enviado el: divendres, 2 de juny de 2023 20:34
Para: Abel Pau <a.pau at creaf.uab.cat>
CC: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org; Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co>
Asunto: Re: [gdal-dev] Creation of a new driver from scratch


> It is indeed desired that the code style of the contribution matches GDAL's style to some degree. GDAL provides a .clang-format file that might be helpful when you are editing to provide some automated conformance.

Cf https://gdal.org/development/dev_practices.html#commit-hooks also to install pre-commit hooks to ensure the formatting is OK & fix it if not.

https://gdal.org/development/rfc/rfc8_devguide.html also gives some hints on the general development practices. Generally try to stick with the conventions you observe in source code of drivers you take inspiration from.

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> You might be able to build a sln file using GDAL's CMake configuration, but there is no standard documentation about how to do this. Do know that most any configuration you provide must build and work with the standard GDAL CMake configuration which is typically invoked through the command line.

The source of "truth" will be the CMakeLists.txt file.

sln files are just a possible by-product of CMake that isn't stored in git.

You may just google "Cmake visual studio" as there's nothing GDAL specific regarding this topic. ==>
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/cmake-projects-in-visual-studio?view=msvc-170
among other links that you'll get

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>> ·         Once I have a Visual Studio solution (sln) to inspire myself, how should I proceed to create the driver? Is there any pre-existing pattern or template to follow?
> Find an existing raster or vector driver in the project that matches MiraMon's vector or raster format and use it as a skeleton.
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>> I would like to be able to debug it.
> Familiarize yourself with GDAL's tests (a good place to learn is to look at GDAL's CI configuration), get tests running locally on your machine, and then write tests that provide test coverage for your raster or vector driver.
For vector drivers, the test_ogrsf utility that is built with GDAL is used by most unit tests of vector drivers to check their compliance w.r.t expectations of what a driver should do/not do. Not that of course this is only generic testing. You also need to add tests that check that the content you read from a test file is the one you expect.

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