Geo-GDAL
This is the swig-generated Perl interface to the GDAL/OGR library. The master copy of this module is developed and distributed with GDAL. GDAL is available from www.gdal.org.
You need to have the development (header files etc.) versions of gdal and geos libraries available in your system to build these modules.
The versions of GDAL and this interface must match. Makefile.PL attempts to do that, but it is highly recommended to install Geo::GDAL from GDAL sources.
This module is not compatible with Geo::GDAL 0.11
INSTALLATION FROM CPAN DISTRIBUTION
When this module is installed from a CPAN distribution, it must first find GDAL development files. That is basically about finding the gdal-config script. You can specify gdal-config or you can let Makefile.PL search for it.
If gdal-config was not found or its version is not good and Makefile.PL had to look it by itself, Makefile.PL will try to download and build GDAL. That is mostly meant for automatic testing only.
Control the GDAL that this module is built against:
--gdal-config=PATH Use PATH as the gdal-config. This is the same as setting the environment variable PERL_GDAL_CONFIG to PATH.
--gdal-source-tree=PATH Use the gdal source tree at PATH. This is the same as setting the environment variable PERL_GDAL_SOURCE_TREE to PATH.
--download-gdal-source=yes|no|force What to do if suitable GDAL development files are not found. yes is the default. This is the same as setting environment variable PERL_GDAL_DOWNLOAD_GDAL_SOURCE to yes, no, or force.
--no-version-check Force an attempt to build against an older GDAL version. This is the same as setting the environment variable PERL_GDAL_NO_VERSION_CHECK to 1
More information about running Makefile.PL is available at ExtUtils-MakeMaker documentation.
To build, test and install this module the basic steps are
perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires the GDAL library.
DOCUMENTATION
The documentation is maintained in Doxygen files. You will also need Doxygen-Filter-Perl. To generate the documentation type
make doc
You can find the documentation also at http://arijolma.org/Geo-GDAL/snapshot/.
GDAL: http://www.gdal.org/ Doxygen : http://www.doxygen.org Doxygen-Filter-Perl: http://search.cpan.org/~jordan/Doxygen-Filter-Perl/
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2006- by Ari Jolma and GDAL Swig developers.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.