[Mapserver-users] cygwin gdal question ...

[Norman Vine]

Heitzso writes:
> 
> I've worked with gdal current stable and also
> latest cvs tree snapshot.
> In both cases gdal sets up fine.
> Mapserver's ./configure finds gdal libraries fine.
> The compile appears to run fine.
> BUT when I 'mapserv.exe -v' an error pops up
> re the libgdal.1.1.dll not being found.
> This also blocks 'python setup.py build' in mapscript/python.
> 
> I've tried installing gdal to both /usr/local/lib
> and to /usr/lib and that doesn't change anything.
> Fails to find in either setting.  BTW, I do make distclean
> and then rm *.exe and rm Makefile to flush the env
> between runs.

assuming you installed gdal into $prefix

Copy the dll from $prefix/lib to $prefix/bin

This is a known problem with gdal WRT to Cygwin
that I don't have an easy fix for

HTH

Norman