[GRASSLIST:5606] Re: gdal install on cygwin

[Glynn Clements]

Paul Dymecki wrote:

>    i was wondering if anyone has gotten gdal working with GRASS on
> cygwin.  I keep getting the compilation error _gdalmodule.so does not
> exist when running make install on gdal-1.1.8

I suspect that building a shared GDAL library doesn't work on Cygwin;
shared libraries are highly platform-specific.

Use "make -k ..." to ignore errors; it should at least install a
static library (libgdal.a).

When building GRASS, you will need to use "configure ... --with-gdal"
to force r.in.gdal to be linked directly against libgdal; the default
(without --with-gdal) is to load libgdal dynamically (like a plug-in),
which won't work on Cygwin.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>