[Mapserver-users] Building gdal with Xerces

[Paul Spencer]

My understanding is that the gdal configure only recognizes 1.6.0 at the 
moment.  FYI, I have successfully installed both 1.6.0 and 2.1.0 and 
2.2.0 concurrently, and got both gdal and some other software based on 
newer versions to build correctly, it just takes a little juggling of 
XERCESCSRC environment variable.

Cheers,

Paul

Benjamin Thelen (CCGIS) wrote:

> That means 1.7.0 won't run? Do you think, that xerces 1.6.0 would
> automatically be recognized by gdal at installation time of gdal? Otherwise
> I would have to find out what to specify for --with-xerces-in=dir
> and --with-xerces-lib=opts. Especiall the last one is a miracle to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Paul Spencer [mailto:pagameba at magma.ca]
>>Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:41 PM
>>To: Benjamin Thelen (CCGIS)
>>Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>>Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Building gdal with Xerces
>>
>>
>>You need xerces 1.6.0 unless Frank has updated it recently.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>Benjamin Thelen (CCGIS) wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I suppose, this is a question especially to Frank! Sorry to bother you
>>>again!
>>>
>>>Basic system config concerning this thread:
>>>freebsd 4.7
>>>gdal 1.1.8
>>>mapserver 3.6.5
>>>
>>>
>>>We tried the following:
>>>
>>>benjamin at qwertzuiop> ogrinfo rat_wald.gml
>>>ERROR 1: Unable to create Xerces C++ based GML reader, Xerces support
>>>not configured into GDAL/OGR.
>>>ERROR 1: File rat_wald.gml appears to be GML but the GML reader can't
>>>be instantiated, likely because Xerces support wasn't
>>>configured in.
>>>FAILURE:
>>>Unable to open datasource `rat_wald.gml' with the following drivers.
>>>  -> ESRI Shapefile
>>>  -> UK .NTF
>>>  -> SDTS
>>>  -> TIGER
>>>  -> IHO S-57 (ENC)
>>>  -> MapInfo File
>>>  -> DGN
>>>  -> GML
>>>  -> AVCBin
>>>  -> PostgreSQL
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I now have two questions:
>>>
>>>1. I couldn't find out, which version of Xerces I should
>>
>>install. That seems
>>
>>>to be quite important, as there have been some important
>>
>>changes from 1.7.0
>>
>>>to 2.1.0_1 ( I know 2.1.0 is not the latest, but it is the
>>
>>latest within the
>>
>>>FreeBSD Ports Collection :-) Sorry to blame you with that bloody Ports
>>>Collection again :-)).
>>>
>>>2. Then I found out that gdal (1.1.8) has to be compiled with
>>
>>Xerces. Well,
>>
>>>there are three options I have to specify:
>>>
>>>--with-xerces
>>>--with-xerces-in=dir
>>>--with-xerces-lib=opts
>>>
>>>I tried the following (yes that is directly from source code,
>>
>>not using the
>>
>>>ports system, that will be the next step)
>>>
>>>./configure
>>>--with-xerces
>>>--with-xerces-inc=/usr/local
>>>--with-xerces-lib="-L/usr/local/lib -lxerces-c2.1.0 -lpthread" *
>>>
>>>
>>>*this is from the example ./configure --help, I've changed the version
>>>number.
>>>
>>>
>>>That's the output:
>>>
>>>.
>>>.
>>>.
>>>checking for Xerces C++... requested, but compile or link fails!
>>>
>>>c++ -I/usr/local -I/usr/local/include -o conftest
>>>conftest.cpp -L/usr/local/lib -lxerces-c2_1_0 -lpthread -lpng
>>
>>-lz -lm -L/usr
>>
>>>/local/lib
>>>
>>>conftest.cpp:1: util/PlatformUtils.hpp: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>configure: error: Please correct Xerces options, or don't enable Xerces.
>>>
>>>
>>>What do I have to specify for gdal & xerces and which version
>>
>>of xerces do I
>>
>>>have to install?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Benjamin
>>>
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>>
>>--
>>Paul Spencer
>>Applications and Software Development
>>DM Solutions Group Inc.
>>http://www.dmsolutions.ca
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 
> 
> 

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Paul Spencer
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DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca