[gdal-dev] Building GDAL from VCPKG fails with FreeXL

[mchapman at hyperacktive.com]

Even,

 

I didn’t save the exact message but it was fairly non descriptive.  It was something like BUILD_FAILED.  Sorry, my bad for not saving the exact message.  It sounds like it may have just been my environment and if it’s not critical then I can live without it.  If no one else is complaining then I wouldn’t waste time looking into it.  If I have time later I will try to rebuild and reproduce the error, it just takes an hour to build so can’t do it right now.  Thanks for your help though!

  

Best regards,

Martin Chapman

 

From: Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> 
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2025 3:33 AM
To: mchapman at hyperacktive.com; gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Building GDAL from VCPKG fails with FreeXL

 

Martin,

what error messages did you get when trying with FreeXL ?

Removing the FreeXL dependency removes support for the old prior-to-Excel-2007 binary XLS format. So usually not a big deal

Even

Le 29/06/2025 à 02:45, Martin Chapman via gdal-dev a écrit :

All,

 

I tried to build GDAL 3.11.0 from https://vcpkg.io/en/package/gdal and FreeXL kept failing on my Windows 11 box using Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 (64-bit) – Current Version 17.14.7.  To resolve the issue I built a custom-overlay port and removed FreeXL from the build and then everything built great.  I tried to just build FreeXL using VCPKG and that failed so I was wondering if it’s just my machine that is messed up or are others having issues as well?  By removing FreeXL will I be crippling any other drivers that may depend on it?  I looked at the docs and it didn’t seem that important?  Also, is there a way to specify what drivers not to build without doing a custom-overlay port?

 

Best regards,

Martin Chapman

 





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