[gdal-dev] ESRI Shapefile API missing

[Derek Newhall]

Also worth noting that this appears in the console output:

-- Enabled drivers and features and found dependency packages
-- The following features have been enabled:
<snip ...>
 * ogr_SHAPE, ESRI shape-file

Derek Newhall

On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 9:01 PM Derek Newhall <dnewhall at carlsonsw.com>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We've just migrated from GDAL 3.5.1 to 3.7.0 which we build with (almost)
> all external dependencies as static libraries. However, we've noticed that
> when we try to compile our app against the resulting library the ESRI
> Shapefile API isn't available.
>
> Severity Code Description
> Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol DBFClose
> Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol SHPOpen
> <snip>
> Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol SHPCreateObject
> Error LNK2001 unresolved external symbol SHPClose
>
> Looking at the .libs' symbols:
>
> DUMPBIN /linkermember D:\gdal-3.5.1\build\gdal_i.lib | sls DBF
>
>    1ED958 DBFOpen
>    1ED958 __imp_DBFOpen
>    1ED9BC DBFOpenLL
>    1ED9BC __imp_DBFOpenLL
>    1ED3D0 DBFCreate
>    1ED3D0 __imp_DBFCreate
>    1ED436 DBFCreateEx
>    1ED436 __imp_DBFCreateEx
> <snip 50+ lines>
>      1257 __imp_DBFWriteNULLAttribute
>      1256 __imp_DBFWriteStringAttribute
>      125B __imp_DBFWriteTuple
>
> DUMPBIN /linkermember D:\gdal-3.7.0\build\gdal.lib | sls DBF
>
>       DBF OSRGetAxesCount
>       DBF __imp_OSRGetAxesCount
>
> We build the DLL and apps with the following command in a .bat script (all
> library paths are valid and it compiles):
>
> cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" -DBUILD_APPS=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ^
> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=D:\gdal-3.7.0-build ^
> -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-DCURL_STATICLIB -DXML_STATIC"
> -DGDAL_USE_EXTERNAL_LIBS=OFF ^
> -DOGR_BUILD_OPTIONAL_DRIVERS=ON ^
> -DPROJ_INCLUDE_DIR="%~dp0proj-6.3.1\src" ^
> -DPROJ_LIBRARY_RELEASE="%~dp0proj-6.3.1\build_VS2017_x64\lib\RelWithDebInfo\proj.lib"
> ^
> -DGDAL_USE_CURL=ON -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR="%~dp0libcurl\include"
> -DCURL_LIBRARY_RELEASE="%~dp0libcurl\lib\libcurl.lib" ^
> -DGDAL_USE_ECW=ON -DECW_INCLUDE_DIR="%~dp0ERDAS ECW JPEG 2000 SDK
> 5.5.0\Desktop Read-Only\include" -DECW_LIBRARY="%~dp0ERDAS ECW JPEG 2000
> SDK 5.5.0\Desktop Read-Only\lib\vc141\x64\NCSEcw.lib" ^
> -DGDAL_USE_ODBC=ON ^
> -DGDAL_USE_OPENSSL=ON -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR="%~dp0openssl-1.1.0f-vs2017"
> -DOPENSSL_USE_STATIC_LIBS=TRUE -DOPENSSL_MSVC_STATIC_RT=TRUE ^
> -DGDAL_ENABLE_DRIVER_PDF_PLUGIN=ON ^
> -DGDAL_USE_PDFIUM=ON
> -DPDFIUM_INCLUDE_DIR="%~dp0ExtractPDFium\install\include\pdfium"
>  -DPDFIUM_LIBRARY="%~dp0ExtractPDFium\install\lib\pdfium.lib" ^
> -DGDAL_USE_SQLITE3=ON
> -DSQLite3_INCLUDE_DIR="%~dp0sqlite-amalgamation-3370200"
>  -DSQLite3_LIBRARY="%~dp0sqlite-amalgamation-3370200\sqlite3.lib" ^
> -DGDAL_USE_XERCESC=ON -DXercesC_INCLUDE_DIR="%~dp0xerces-c-3.2.4\src"
> -DXercesC_LIBRARY="%~dp0xerces-c-3.2.4\build\src\Release\xerces-c_3.lib" ^
> -DGDAL_USE_EXPAT=ON -DEXPAT_INCLUDE_DIR="%~dp0Expat\lib"
> -DEXPAT_LIBRARY="%~dp0Expat\RelWithDebInfo\libexpat.lib" ^
> ..
>
> The build documentation at
> https://gdal.org/development/building_from_source.html says the ESRI
> Shapefile API cannot be disabled, so I'm wondering what's going on.  Is
> this a bug, or did we just misconfigure something? This is our first time
> semi-successfully building with the new CMake system.
>
> Derek Newhall
>

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