[gdal-dev] Out of tree drivers

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2025, Norman Barker via gdal-dev wrote:

> Now GDAL supports plugins, are there any out of tree open source
> drivers? I am looking for a template for a driver I am working
> on. Particularly around how to update the drivers.ini. If not then I
> will write one.

I have a driver at
   https://github.com/andrew-aitchison/gdal/tree/master
but I wouldn't say it was in a shape to copy.

My main issue is, how do I get github to install (the chosen version
of) gdal to build on top of, for all platforms ?  Until then, it is a
complete fork, although you can build it as a plugin.

I imagine that building a plugin is beyond most of my driver's
potential users and the gdal ABI changes sufficiently that a plugin is
only good for a single 0.1 release ...


I look forward to seeing what you do.

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk