[gdal-dev] Trying to build plugins

[David Klaus]

David,

I just wanted to follow up to say that I haven't run into your plugin
problem. So, unfortunately I don't have any advice to offer you here.
Hopefully someone else in the GDAL community has an answer.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM David Days <david.days at maplarge.com> wrote:

> David and Howard--that definitely helps.  If I pick the right command for
> the --formats call, it shows exactly what was expected when the driver is
> available. [insert facepalm]
>
> That helps with the core issue of the required support.  I'm still open to
> suggestions about having the plugins show up.  It's not central now, but I
> can see that coming back around to being important some day.
>
> I really appreciate the fast replies, from both--thanks!
> David
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 15, 2025, at 1:02 PM, David Klaus via gdal-dev <
>> gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>> I believe in the past I ran into an issue where I couldn't confirm
>> through gdalinfo.exe whether or not a format was available in my build.
>> After some looking around, I realized that some formats were only listed
>> via ogrinfo.exe. Sorry if you already know this or if this information
>> isn't 100% accurate. But, hopefully this helps you,
>>
>>
>> For historical reasons, OGR ~= vector and GDAL ~= raster. These have been
>> more closely unified in the new GDAL CLI – try issuing 'gdal --formats' or
>> 'gdal --formats --json' for a unified set (GDAL 3.11+)
>>
>> Howard
>>
>>
>>
>

-- 
David Klaus
Carlson Software

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