[Qgis-user] How to Compile GDAL from gdal trunk and qgis from source ?

[Alister Hood]

Go to the GDAL website and following the links:
Building from source>Building on Windows.

Go to http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html


> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:12:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: laurent celati <lcelati at latitude-geosystems.com>
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [Qgis-user] How to Compile GDAL from gdal trunk and qgis from
> 	source ?
> Message-ID: <1346314332626-4998803.post at n6.nabble.com>
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> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have posted a message there a few weeks. I asked you a way to compile
> the "last Gdal version from trunk" and Qgis from source targeting your
> gdal source as library in order to use the last Gdal postis raster driver.
> You answered that the last binairies qgis 1.8 version is available with
> the last version of gdal (1.9.1) and that it's useless to compile.
> 
> I understand your reply. BUT I have talked last days with developpers of
> "Gdal Postgis raster driver". They just add several important updates to
> the driver. And they confirm to me that the only way to use the last
> driver is to compile GDAL from gdal trunk and qgis from source using that
> compilation as GDAL version.
> Please to read below few sentences written by those developpers :
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> That's the only way to get the development version working. You have to
> compile GDAL from svn and qgis from source using that compilation as GDAL
> version.
> I'm not following osgeo4w binaries, but I don't think they would provide a
> QGIS build with both gdal and qgis from svn. It's not entirely impossible
> because I know they release a few nightly snapshots.
> So, you have to use the last GDAL version from trunk in order to have the
> last "Gdal Postgis raster driver updates".You just need to compile QGIS
> from source targeting your GDAL source as library.I think that if you make
> any header changes you may need to recompile it all since QGIS depends on
> GDAL.So you have to work with last gdal version from trunk.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I need this last version of Gdal Postgis raster driver on my windows 7-64
> bits station but those developpers working on Linux.
> Could you explain to me the way to compile GDAL from gdal trunk and qgis
> from source using that compilation as GDAL version (sources links to
> download, compilation proc?dure,etc.). I am a thematician geograph and i
> am a novice in software compilation;-(
> 
> In advance, thank you for your reply.
> 
> Kind regards.
> 
> Laurent Celati