[Mapserver-users] Does GDAL include OGR ?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Eduardo Patto Kanegae wrote:
> I saw in GDAL ./configure --help that is possible to "disable OGR code"
> 
> what does really it means? does GDAL package also include OGR functions? 
> I mean, if I download
> and compile GDAL library  I don't need to compile OGR package?


Eduardo,

The GDAL library includes the GDAL API and the OGR API.  So, if you want
GDAL and OGR support in MapServer you would normally just need to compile
the GDAL source tree and link against it to get both GDAL (raster) and
OGR (vector) support.

Best regards,

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