Building GDAL on Linux
See also my newer PostGIS page. I have GDAL build instructions there, too.
These are notes on how I have built GDAL to run on Linux systems. I do this to get the newest versions, and to add support for ESRI and MrSID files. If you don't need these things, by all means use packages. (apt-get or yum) This is extra pain that you don't need.
Oh; if you don't know what GDAL is, look at the Wikipedia entry.
Build prerequisites
sudo apt-get install subversion git sudo apt-get install swig python-dev sudo apt-get install cmake-qt-gui make bison flex gcc g++ libtool sudo apt-get install lib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev liblcms2-dev liblcms2-utils
sudo apt-get install libpng12-dev libtiff4-dev sudo apt-get install libspatialite-dev
I installed PostgreSQL 9.2 and PostGIS 2 using the Stack Builder from EnterpriseDB.
OGDI support for VMAP
http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_ogdi.html
sudo apt-get install ogdi-bin libogdi3.2-dev
JPEG2000
Options for JPEG2000 support include
- LizardTech MrSID SDK (--with-jp2mrsid) (costs money to use encoder)
- Jasper (--with-jasper)
- Kakadu (commercial license "if you have to ask...") http://www.kakadusoftware.com/
- OpenJPEG (--with-openjpeg)
Which is best?? Choose one
OpenJPEG
sudo apt-get install libopenjpeg-dev openjpeg-tools
Jasper
You want the Jasper from the remotesensing site, not the official one. It has support for something called GeoJP2
ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/gdal/
Building gdal on my 64-bit Debian system required this
cd jasper src dir export CFLAGS="-fPIC -m64" ./configure make; sudo make install unset CFLAGS sudo ldconfig
Non-free support
ESRI file geodatabases
NOTE 1: You won't be able to access FGDBs created before ArcGIS 10.0
NOTE 2: To get ESRI FGDB support requires gdal 1.9.0 or better
I want to be able to script loading data from file geodatabases into postgis, as described in the GDAL page. Refer to the GDAL FGDB driver page
Agree to their terms and then download the file gdb API from the ESRI site.
Here you will find build instructions.
I put the lib*so files in /usr/local/lib
cd FileGDB_API export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`/lib cd samples make sudo cp ../lib/* /usr/local/lib sudo ldconfig
Lizardtech MrSID raster files
Go to the Lizardtech developer site, sign up, and download the DSDK. Unpack it in a convenient place then tell gdal configure where to find it. You don't need to install anything unless you want to use their utilities.
02-May-2013 GDAL build
I generally build GDAL from sources so that I can add the non-standard parts such as MRSID support. (Regarding Geospatial PDF, see http://www.gdal.org/frmt_pdf.html -- there are links to further documentation and sample GeoPDF's at the bottom of this page.)
Supporting actors
Poppler is for PDF support, see also PoDoFo
# UBUNTU -- First install required prerequisite packages sudo apt-get install libproj-dev libpoppler-dev
# DEBIAN -- I am running "lenny" with backports to get this sudo apt-get -t lenny-backports install proj libpoppler3 libpoppler-dev
MrSID
I manually copied the libraries into /usr/local/lib and the binaries into /usr/local/bin -- Maybe I could have done the install using a script but I was too lazy to dig through their SDK to figure out how.
GEOS
wget http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.3.8.tar.bz2 tar xjf geos-3.3.8.tar.bz2 cd geos3.3.8 ./configure --enable-python make -j 10 sudo make install cd ..
I had some trouble because the GDAL build kept seeing the MrSID tools -- the commercial ones, not the SDK. MrSID uses GEOS, too, but an outdated version. Make sure your environment is not set to expose the old library to the whole system.
Spatialite
./configure --enable-freexl=no make -j 10 sudo make install
Building GDAL (finally!)
cd ~/src/GIS/ svn checkout https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal gdal cd gdal
On my desktop on good days at home I use this, it has ESRI and MrSID installed.
./configure --with-python --with-poppler=yes \ --with-geos --with-geotiff --with-jpeg --with-png --with-expat --with-libkml --with-xerces-c \ --with-mrsid=$HOME/src/GIS/MrSID/Raster_DSDK \ --with-fgdb=$HOME/src/GIS/FileGDB_API \ --with-openjpeg --with-geos --with-pg \ --with-ogdi \ --with-spatialite make -j 10 sudo make install
On bad days 03-04-13 it won't build right now so I cut a bunch of unneeded stuff out and finally got it to build with this. I don't know exactly why it won't build with all the formats above but I don't really care enough to investigate because what I am doing is trying to get to the point where I can build QGIS from source. I know ogdi and openjpeg were causing problems for me. I had to set to "no" to stop them from being included. Leaving it off the list was not enough.'
./configure --with-python --with-poppler=no \ --with-geos --with-geotiff --with-jpeg --with-png \ --with-mrsid=$HOME/src/MrSID/Raster_DSDK --with-fgdb=$HOME/src/GIS/FileGDB_API \ --with-openjpeg=no --with-pg --with-ogdi=no
On my public server I use this
./configure --with-python --with-poppler=yes \ --with-openjpeg --with-geos \ --with-ogdi make sudo make install
At AGI I used this
./configure --with-python --with-poppler --with-pg --with-curl --with-openjpeg \ --with-geos --with-geotiff --with-jpeg --with-png --with-expat --with-libkml --with-xerces-c \ --with-mrsid=$HOME/src/GIS/MrSID/Raster_DSDK \ --with-java=/usr/local/java/jdk1.7.0_02 --with-fgdb=$HOME/src/GIS/FileGDB_API \ --with-mdb
Does it work?
% gdalinfo 1501ANC4815_geo.pdf
Driver: PDF/Geospatial PDF
Files: 1501ANC4815_geo.pdf
Size is 4470, 3375
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["UTM Zone 48, Northern Hemisphere",
GEOGCS["Indian 1960",
DATUM["Indian_1960",
SPHEROID["Everest 1830 (1937 Adjustment)",6377276.345,300.8017,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","7015"]],
TOWGS84[198,881,317,0,0,0,0],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","6131"]],
PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","8901"]],
UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433,
AUTHORITY["EPSG","9122"]],
AUTHORITY["EPSG","4131"]],
PROJECTION["Transverse_Mercator"],
PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],
PARAMETER["central_meridian",105],
PARAMETER["scale_factor",0.9996],
PARAMETER["false_easting",500000],
PARAMETER["false_northing",0],
UNIT["Meter",1]]
GeoTransform =
429999.053008, 42.34642896, 0.04051872
999725.914982, 0.04124303999999999, -42.332688
Metadata:
NEATLINE=POLYGON ((445035.80158801417565 999277.556482305750251,444993.235997625160962 991902.349403560161591,444864.738057852664497 884201.712978136376478,452159.580137342331 884208.817744017927907,585964.54743435990531 884289.527591207530349,614300.221590773784555 884383.269830735283904,614190.235319046885706 999293.477391553344205,605175.140901734353974 999218.552309990860522,553978.789515793323517 999300.979716640315019,505958.457250406034291 999353.427943945163861,451172.635888226970565 999382.750743734533899,445035.722449889173731 999360.237513555795886,445035.80158801417565 999277.556482305750251,445035.80158801417565 999277.556482305750251,445035.80158801417565 999277.556482305750251))
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left ( 429999.053, 999725.915) (104d21'46.72"E, 9d 2'39.27"N)
Lower Left ( 430135.804, 856853.093) (104d21'58.76"E, 7d45' 6.78"N)
Upper Right ( 619287.590, 999910.271) (106d 5' 7.80"E, 9d 2'41.48"N)
Lower Right ( 619424.341, 857037.449) (106d 4'59.36"E, 7d45' 9.52"N)
Center ( 524711.697, 928381.682) (105d13'28.20"E, 8d23'57.68"N)
Band 1 Block=4470x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Red
Band 2 Block=4470x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Green
Band 3 Block=4470x1 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Blue
JOY! It works!
To see if it built all required formats, for real, you can check:
% gdalinfo --formats Supported Formats: VRT (rw+v): Virtual Raster GTiff (rw+v): GeoTIFF NITF (rw+v): National Imagery Transmission Format RPFTOC (rov): Raster Product Format TOC format HFA (rw+v): Erdas Imagine Images (.img) SAR_CEOS (rov): CEOS SAR Image CEOS (rov): CEOS Image JAXAPALSAR (ro): JAXA PALSAR Product Reader (Level 1.1/1.5) GFF (rov): Ground-based SAR Applications Testbed File Format (.gff) ELAS (rw+): ELAS AIG (rov): Arc/Info Binary Grid AAIGrid (rwv): Arc/Info ASCII Grid SDTS (rov): SDTS Raster DTED (rwv): DTED Elevation Raster PNG (rwv): Portable Network Graphics JPEG (rwv): JPEG JFIF MEM (rw+): In Memory Raster JDEM (ro): Japanese DEM (.mem) GIF (rwv): Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) BIGGIF (rov): Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) ESAT (ro): Envisat Image Format BSB (rov): Maptech BSB Nautical Charts XPM (rwv): X11 PixMap Format BMP (rw+v): MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap DIMAP (rov): SPOT DIMAP AirSAR (ro): AirSAR Polarimetric Image RS2 (ro): RadarSat 2 XML Product PCIDSK (rw+v): PCIDSK Database File PCRaster (rw): PCRaster Raster File ILWIS (rw+v): ILWIS Raster Map SGI (rw+): SGI Image File Format 1.0 SRTMHGT (rwv): SRTMHGT File Format Leveller (rw+): Leveller heightfield Terragen (rw+): Terragen heightfield ISIS3 (rov): USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 3) ISIS2 (rov): USGS Astrogeology ISIS cube (Version 2) PDS (rov): NASA Planetary Data System TIL (ro): EarthWatch .TIL ERS (rw+): ERMapper .ers Labelled JPEG2000 (rwv): JPEG-2000 part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1) L1B (ro): NOAA Polar Orbiter Level 1b Data Set FIT (rwv): FIT Image GRIB (rov): GRIdded Binary (.grb) MrSID (ro): Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) JP2MrSID (ro): MrSID JPEG2000 RMF (rw+): Raster Matrix Format WCS (ro): OGC Web Coverage Service WMS (ro): OGC Web Map Service MSGN (ro): EUMETSAT Archive native (.nat) RST (rw+): Idrisi Raster A.1 INGR (rw+v): Intergraph Raster GSAG (rw): Golden Software ASCII Grid (.grd) GSBG (rw+): Golden Software Binary Grid (.grd) GS7BG (ro): Golden Software 7 Binary Grid (.grd) COSAR (ro): COSAR Annotated Binary Matrix (TerraSAR-X) TSX (ro): TerraSAR-X Product COASP (ro): DRDC COASP SAR Processor Raster R (rwv): R Object Data Store PNM (rw+): Portable Pixmap Format (netpbm) DOQ1 (ro): USGS DOQ (Old Style) DOQ2 (ro): USGS DOQ (New Style) ENVI (rw+v): ENVI .hdr Labelled EHdr (rw+v): ESRI .hdr Labelled GenBin (ro): Generic Binary (.hdr Labelled) PAux (rw+): PCI .aux Labelled MFF (rw+): Vexcel MFF Raster MFF2 (rw+): Vexcel MFF2 (HKV) Raster FujiBAS (ro): Fuji BAS Scanner Image GSC (ro): GSC Geogrid FAST (ro): EOSAT FAST Format BT (rw+): VTP .bt (Binary Terrain) 1.3 Format LAN (rov): Erdas .LAN/.GIS CPG (ro): Convair PolGASP IDA (rw+): Image Data and Analysis NDF (ro): NLAPS Data Format EIR (rov): Erdas Imagine Raw DIPEx (ro): DIPEx LCP (rov): FARSITE v.4 Landscape File (.lcp) GTX (rw+v): NOAA Vertical Datum .GTX LOSLAS (rov): NADCON .los/.las Datum Grid Shift NTv2 (rw+v): NTv2 Datum Grid Shift RIK (ro): Swedish Grid RIK (.rik) USGSDEM (rw): USGS Optional ASCII DEM (and CDED) GXF (ro): GeoSoft Grid Exchange Format HTTP (ro): HTTP Fetching Wrapper NWT_GRD (ro): Northwood Numeric Grid Format .grd/.tab NWT_GRC (ro): Northwood Classified Grid Format .grc/.tab ADRG (rw+v): ARC Digitized Raster Graphics SRP (rov): Standard Raster Product (ASRP/USRP) BLX (rw): Magellan topo (.blx) Rasterlite (rw): Rasterlite PostGISRaster (ro): PostGIS Raster driver SAGA (rw+v): SAGA GIS Binary Grid (.sdat) KMLSUPEROVERLAY (rwv): Kml Super Overlay XYZ (rwv): ASCII Gridded XYZ HF2 (rwv): HF2/HFZ heightfield raster OZI (rov): OZI
...all the right stuff!
Now back to Mapping Vietnam
01-Dec-2010
Building gdal 1.7.3 so I can have gdal python bindings, so I can reclassify a raster. In another window, I am running a very simple ESRI Spatial Analyst reclassification, but it's taking so long that I can probably build gdal and write a python script to do the same thing before the ESRI tool completes.
(I assume the ESRI tool crashed but as usual, I have no way of knowing.)
I had to add C++ to my system. Compiling.
Oh -- gdal built successfully. Installing it. Done. Updated system path.
Trying to build Python bindings now, what a pain! In the meantime, I clicked "cancel" button, perhaps in a few hours I will know if ArcMap crashed or not. (See comment above about failure of cancel button to cancel...)
