R help - Aug 2004 - rgdal under windows?

Hi,

 

Has anyone had any joy getting the rgdal package to compile under windows?
I've been trying with MinGW using Duncan Murdoch's Rtools but to no
avail.
After unpacking the tarball I put it here:

 

D:\rw1091\src\library\rgdal>ls

DESCRIPTION  R        configure     inst       man

INDEX        cleanup  configure.in  install.R  src

 

And then tried:

 

D:\rw1091\src\gnuwin32>make pkg-rgdal

make: *** [pkg-rgdal] Error 255

 

Any help would be most appreciated!

 

Cheers, Ben


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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Benjamin Lloyd-Hughes wrote:
> Has anyone had any joy getting the rgdal package to compile under windows?
First you need to meet the system requirements:

SystemRequirements: GDAL library from 
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/download.html

Since that has build instructions which say

  GDAL can be built on Windows using MS VC++ 6.x and MS Visual Studio .NET 
  (C++) at the DOS command line.

you will first need to get a copy of DOS and those compilers.  (I suspect
they mean the Windows command prompt, but they don't seem to know the
difference which is not confidence-inspiring.  I also suspect they mean
`or' not `and'.)  Then you will have to fathom out how to link against a
VC++ DLL which since this C++ is very unlikely to work with MinGW.  So you
probably need to make the package's rgdal.dll under VC++ -- see
README.packages.

I have tried and failed to make GDAL with MinGW.
> I've been trying with MinGW using Duncan Murdoch's Rtools but to no
avail.
Do read README.packages and follow the advice at the top.  You don't have 
the (mis-attributed) tools in your path.  But that is probably the least 
of your potential problems.

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> From: Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen
>
> Except it will not cross the complexity of getting linux CD-roms to 
> install. Based in a peripherical
> country, with no internet connection anywhere close fast enough  to 
> actually download linux, have to buy the
> CD-roms. Trying to get Suse 9.1 (since I have suse 7.1 on an old 
> computer). Amazon
> doses'nt send outside north america, so we tried Canadian 
> camelot. They 
> covered from the
> credit card more than a month ago, but did'nt actually send anything, 
> and dos'snt anymore
> respond to (angry) emails.
> 
> Anybody know something more serious than Camelot?
Why not try Quantian?  Cheapbytes.com sells one for $4.99US, and will ship
outside US.  The version they have is a bit outdated, but is the last
version that fits on a CD-ROM...

Best,
Andy
 
> Kjetil halvorsen
>