[GRASS-dev] GRASS and GDAL 1.4.1 MingW

[Benjamin Ducke]

Hi all,

concerning the troubles with the DBF driver under Win32 that I wrote
about earlier, I am trying to compile a current version of GRASS
with MingW.

My problem is, that I cannot break the vicious GDAL-GRASS-GDAL cycle
anymore. I was trying to follow the instructions in the gdal-grass
plugin README:

1. GDAL 1.4.1 compiles fine without GRASS support.

2. However, the README is not clear on whether GRASS first needs to be
compiled w/o GDAL support firdst, but I assume it has to, because it
won't be able to find GDALOpen and the configure script aborts:

checking whether to use GDAL... yes
checking for gdal-config... /usr/local/bin/gdal-config
checking for GDALOpen... no
checking for GDALOpen... no
configure: error: *** couldn't find GDAL

3. Fair enough, BUT: with the current CVS version, it seems impossible
to compile GRASS without GDAL support, as compilation in lib/vector/Vlib
aborts, even if I specify --without-gdal:

field.c: In function `Vect_read_dblinks':
field.c:388: error: `OGRDataSourceH' undeclared (first use in this function)
field.c:388: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
field.c:388: error: for each function it appears in.)
field.c:388: error: syntax error before "Ogr_ds"
field.c:389: error: `OGRLayerH' undeclared (first use in this function)
field.c:390: error: `OGRFeatureDefnH' undeclared (first use in this
function)
field.c:400: error: `Ogr_ds' undeclared (first use in this function)
field.c:412: error: `Ogr_layer' undeclared (first use in this function)
field.c:417: error: `Ogr_featuredefn' undeclared (first use in this
function)

A 'make distclean' with fresh configure run did not help.

I don't know how many hours of time I have already lost with this
tricky GDAL-GRASS interdependency thing in the past without ever
figuring it out 100%
Are you all sure that including GDAL in the GRASS distribution in the
future is not an option?

Best,

Benjamin

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Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
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