[gdal-dev] fail to pip install gdal

[Mike Taves]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 at 10:26, ni hao via gdal-dev
<gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> when I tried to pip install gdal, I got:
>
> Collecting gdal
>   Downloading gdal-3.10.tar.gz (848 kB)

This fails because the source distribution of gdal needs to be
compiled. There are no pre-compiled binary wheels on PyPI.

There are several projects that maintain and provide pre-compiled
distributions of GDAL that include Python bindings. See conda-forge,
OSGeo4W or vcpkg for these resources.