[gdal-dev] Where to fins my own files

[Even Rouault]

Yes, the practice for a resource file is:

- put it under data/

- add it to the GDAL_DATA_FILES variable on top level gdal.cmake file

- use CPLFindFile("gdal", "your.file") to get its path

Le 07/01/2024 à 01:59, Sean Gillies via gdal-dev a écrit :
> Happy New Year to you too, Abel.
>
> Other drivers, such as PCI and NITF,  include some files in the data 
> directory.  See https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/tree/master/data. 
> Distributions generally copy these to $prefix/share/gdal on unix-like 
> systems. I'm not aware of a practice of copying data out of a driver's 
> directory to that same location, though it's probably possible with 
> Cmake. Your driver's own directory won't necessarily exist on a system 
> where you install GDAL.
>
> For datum files, have you checked whether they already exist in the 
> PROJ project?
>
> On Sat, Jan 6, 2024, 2:32 PM Abel Pau via gdal-dev 
> <gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Happy New 2024 to everyone who celebrates it!
>
>     I am programming a driver and in some point I need to read a file
>     that contains some information (and it’s better to keep this in a
>     file than in c code) about the Horizontal Reference System.
>
>     I have this file here: “GDAL\ogr\ogrsf_frmts\miramon”, but when
>     coding I don’t know how to get to this folder.
>
>     There is any method to open a file (using VSIFOpenL(), for
>     instance) in THIS specific directory? Can I use
>     “GDAL\ogr\ogrsd_frmts\miramon” like that?
>
>     If not, where can I put this file to be found when executing the
>     code? And how to write this path in the code?
>
>     Thanks in advance!!
>
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