[pdal] Installing python-pdal with rivlib support

[Phil Wilkes]

Great thanks Paul. I copied just libpdal_plugin_reader_rxp.so to /lib in my
conda environment and it works! Thanks for your help.

Dr. Phil Wilkes

UCL Geography, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

& NERC National Centre for Earth Observation


On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 17:46, Paul Harwood <runette at gmail.com> wrote:

> One thing I do a lot when developing - including for pdal-python - is to
> install with Conda and then replace the binary objects (e.g, .dll or .so or
> .dylib etc) with my custom built versions. It usually works.
>
> Instal pdal-python into a conda env (lets call it 'test').
>
> Then go into your conda root (usually '~/Anaconda3' or '~/miniconda3' or
> something like that) and find the 'envs' folder. There should be a folder
> in there for the conda environment (i.e. 'test' as specified above).
>
> In there - find the PDAL shared object - depends on your os (e.g. pdal.dll
> in `Library\bin` on Win or pdal.dylib in `bin` on mac etc). replace that
> and any other shared objects with your custom compiled versions as
> required.
>
> Pdal-python should now be using your custom version of PDAL.
>
> On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 17:26, Phil Wilkes <p.wilkes at ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi there
>>
>> I would like to install pdal with the python extension and with rivlib
>> support. I have successfully installed pdal with rivlib support (compiled
>> from source) and also the python extension installed through conda. But the
>> version of pdal used when importing into Python is the version also pulled
>> from conda - not my built version.
>>
>> My next attempt was to pull the git repository of python-pdal and install
>> with setup.py. I have put this in the PDAL source directory. I had to make
>> some adjustments to the PDALConfig.cmake (the PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR was
>> pointing at my home directory not the build directory of PDAL so I have
>> hard coded this for now) but I am getting many errors (I think related to
>> not finding certain headers e.g. *fatal error: pdal/pdal_config.hpp: No
>> such file or directory*).
>>
>> Any help with this issue would be greatly received.
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> Dr. Phil Wilkes
>>
>> UCL Geography, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
>>
>> & NERC National Centre for Earth Observation
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