Larry, > > I am curious how hard it would be to build the core GDAL/OGR libs, then > have most formats created as driver plugins, instead of directly linked > from the main libs? > > Reason: at Homebrew (and in other situations) every time one of the linked > libs is updated then GDAL/OGR has to be rebuilt as well. An ideal situation > is where the core libs do not need rebuilt except upon patches or updates > to non-format-specific portions of the code base. Then, format plugins are > rebuilt as necessary, relative to their external dependencies; and, all > plugins rebuilt when a core libs update requires it. > > Currently I find compiling driver plugins tedious, at least for > 1.x versions, has this changed with 2.x versions?
No. Just a few more drivers can be compiled as plugins in trunk (HDF4, HDF5, GeoRaster, FileGDB, OCI and PG) > Is there an easier way to > compile a format as a .so driver plugin than the following 'manual' > example, or am I just doing it in a tedious manner? No easy way. You can still do it manually by linking to the required libraries and GDAL core. Perhaps that could be an interesting objective if a CMake build system comes true (although can be tricky since there are sometimes interdependencies between drivers). Even -- Spatialys - Geospatial professional services http://www.spatialys.com _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
