[osgeo4w-dev] Dependencies for gdal not installed on 64-bit machines

[Frank Warmerdam]

Charles,

I've seen this from time to time too but it does not seem
to be specifically due to the 64bitness of the machine.
I was never able to figure it out though.

Best regards,

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Charles Karney <charles.karney at sri.com> wrote:
> I can't get OSGeo4W to work on a 64-bit machine at all.  Here are the
> steps I take
>
>  Delete existing C:/OSGeo4W
>  Download and run osgeo4w-setup.exe
>  Select express install and uncheck all packages but GDAL
>  Select install
>  Start an OSGeo4W shell
>  Run "gdalinfo"
>
> I then get
>
>  "The application has failed to start because ogdi_32b1.dll was not
>  found."
>
> Other observations:
>
> * the above steps work OK on a 32-bit machine
>
> * the installation appeared to install only 2 gdal packages (3 dlls).
>  On the 32-bit machine several packages were installed alongside gdal
>  (45 dlls).
>
> It seems that the whole dependency mechanism is non-functional on
> 64-bit machines?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Charles Karney <charles.karney at sri.com>
> SRI International, Princeton, NJ 08543-5300
> Tel: +1 609 734 2312
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