[gdal-dev] Out of tree drivers

Even Rouault even.rouault at spatialys.com
Wed Jun 18 08:49:37 PDT 2025


Norman,
> Now GDAL supports plugins,

It has supported them since its early beginnings. The recent 
improvements were for faster loading of in-tree drivers built as plugins

> are there any out of tree open source drivers?

https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal-grass

> I am looking for a template for a driver I am working on.

There's nothing specific for out-of-tree drivers. They are just regular 
drivers.

> Particularly around how to update the drivers.ini. If not then I will 
> write one.

For out-of-tree drivers you don't update drivers.ini. Out-of-tree 
drivers are registered before in-tree drivers

Even

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