[winGRASS] libgdal for windows

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 12:47:15AM -0700, Matt & Kim wrote:
> >> Is there anybody can tell me where I can download
> >> libgdal.1.1.so for windows. I am using r.in.gdal to
> >> import ERDAS .img file.
> ...
> >you can get it from "OpenEV" project which contains GDAL in
> >the binary package for Windows.
> ...
> >There is a gdal.dll inside.
> 
> So on Windows gdal.dll is the same as  libgdal.1.1.so on unix?

Sorry, my last mail was eventually nonsense. One will need a 
Windows/Cygwin version of libgdal.
Did anyone try to compile that?

Markus

> Also, rather than downloading OpenEV (8mb) just for gdal, 
> one could download the Windows binary of gdal (1.5mb),
> which should be hanging out near ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/
> as gdal-116-ntbin.zip or similar.
> 
> And finally, I was under the impression that r.in.gdal was not 
> working yet on cygwin in any case. (Search the archives for the 
> thread "r.[in|out].gdal")
> 
> I have been moderately successful in using the windows binary
> of gdal outside of grass, but not with r.in.gdal.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -matt

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