On 01/06/2011 01:18 AM, Tamas Szekeres wrote:
Chris,
Good points below, but having the compiled gdal binaries (and the
binaries of the dependent libraries) in hand, which is the right way
to install those files on Windows? (Assuming we don't provide
python.exe and the related files in the package)? I mean which install
actions should be done in detail?
2011/1/5 Christopher Barker:
"""
Windows binaries built in MinGW are available at:
http://map.hut.fi/files/Geoinformatica/win32/
The Geoinformatica-yy-mm-dd.zip contains GDAL (usually a
development version), Perl-GDAL, Perl, and many other things.
"""
good for MinGW users, I suppose -- I remember them not working for
me, tough I can't recall how or why not. They also suffer from
perhaps trying to be too much (though if it all worked, I wouldn't
care, I have a fast network and large hard drive)
I found it impossible to deliver a Windows binary solution, which would
depend on the three main packages (Perl, GTK+, and GDAL) to be retrieved
as binaries from some standard location - that's why I bundle them all
together into a quite large (32MB) package.
When I started there was only ActivePerl for Windows that was usable,
but it turned out impossible for me to use because they use MS
compilers. Now there is Strawberry Perl, which I might try again (or pay
someone to try). It is good because it uses MinGW.
There are binary installers for GTK+ for Windows, which install them
into a shared location - but there are problems still and some pieces
are missing that I need (Glade for example). The official GTK+ site has
a long list of zips containing binaries. Despite the shared nature of
GTK+, many projects include own binaries of them in Windows due to
version mismatches etc.
GDAL is available but again typically as MS compiler builds - which
should not be a problem in theory because the bindings use it through
the C API. I've tried to use those a couple of times without luck
(compiling the bindings in MinGW was the problem). Maybe I should try
again using binaries from Tamas' site.
I agree that there could be a one main site for GDAL Windows binaries
(something like http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html). Tamas' site
looks good but I'd like to have dev packages also (the SDK packages
there look old) - just the header files should be enough.
Then there could also be a more end-user type Windows installation
package project for GDAL, which installs the stuff into some standard
location (c:\Program Files\share?). For GTK+ that's provided by some
folks at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win/
It would be neat to be able to just put to the Geoinformatica Windows
installer subinstallations, which go and get Perl, GTK+ and GDAL for the
user if she does not yet have them or has too old ones. In fact
Geoinformatica should be simply installable through Perl's cpan
application - but that does not even work in Linux yet :( (the reason is
that the GDAL Perl module installation script is not intelligent enough
and the version of the module in CPAN is horribly old and I really suck
at managing that)
Best regards,
Ari
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