[gdal-dev] Trouble building GDAL 3.12.3 on Linux

Carl Godkin cgodkin at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 08:32:55 PDT 2026


Hi,

I'm updating our GDAL and other third party libraries.  I'm usually pretty
adept at this but I am having a problem building GDAL 3.12.3 on Linux RHEL8
with GCC 13.2.

The shared library builds okay, but once we get to the apps, I am getting
undefined references to two PROJ functions (proj_coordinate_metadata_create
& proj_crs_has_point_motion_operation).

I was struggling with this last Friday with PROJ 9.8.0 but, after
this weekend's advice about ETRS89, I switched to PROJ 9.7.1 where I'm
having the same problem.

I haven't seen any similar questions go by and I am stuck.  Any advice?

My GDAL 3.12.3 cmake command looks like this:

 cmake \
   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
   -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/local/gcc132/bin/gcc \
   -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/local/gcc132/bin/g++ \
   -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON \
   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/devlibs/gdal-3.12.3 \
   -DBUILD_JAVA_BINDINGS:BOOL=OFF \
   -DSQLite3_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/sqlite-3.51.3/include \
   -DSQLite3_LIBRARY=/usr/local/devlibs/sqlite-3.51.3/lib/libsqlite3.so \
   -DARCHIVE_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/libarchive-3.8.6/include \

 -DARCHIVE_LIBRARY=/usr/local/devlibs/libarchive-3.8.6/lib64/libarchive.so \
   -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/curl-8.4.0/include \
   -DCURL_LIBRARY_RELEASE=/usr/local/devlibs/curl-8.4.0/lib64/libcurl.so \
   -DPROJ_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/proj-9.7.1/include \
   -DPROJ_LIBRARY_RELEASE=/usr/local/devlibs/proj-9.7.1/lib64/libproj.so \
   -DGDAL_USE_GEOTIFF_INTERNAL:BOOL=ON \
   -DGDAL_USE_WEBP_INTERNAL:BOOL=ON \

 -DMRSID_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/MrSID_DSDK-9.5.4.4709-rhel6.x86-64.gcc531/Raster_DSDK/include
\

 -DMRSID_LIBRARY=/usr/local/devlibs/MrSID_DSDK-9.5.4.4709-rhel6.x86-64.gcc531/Raster_DSDK/lib/libltidsdk.so
\
   -DGDAL_ENABLE_DRIVER_JP2MRSID=ON \
   ..

and my PROJ 9.7.0 is pretty basic, and looks like this:

   cmake \
   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
   -Wno-dev -Wno-deprecated \
   -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/local/gcc132/bin/gcc \
   -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/local/gcc132/bin/g++ \
   -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON \
   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/devlibs/proj-9.7.1 \
   ..

Thank you very much,

carl
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