[R-sig-Geo] rgdal 64bit Windows version?

[Rainer Hurling]

Am 25.01.2010 22:25 (UTC+1) schrieb Michael Sumner:
> I suspect you'll need to build GDAL for yourself and then build rgdal
> on top of that, since rgdal depends upon a pre-installation of GDAL.
> The gdal-dev list is the appropriate place for discussing the first
> step.
>
> Colleagues have succesfully built 64-bit Windows GDAL from the 1.6.0
> release using extra binaries (HDF4/5, NetCDF, etc.) from here:
> http://vbkto.dyndns.org:1280/sdk/Default.aspx

Thanks, Michael, for this interesting link.

Unfortunately we are not able to build our own versions on windows 
machines because of administrative reasons. I will have a look at it in 
my spare time ;-)

Rainer

> There are notes on build rgdal for Windows here, but I've not done it
> myself for a while:
>
> file.show(system.file("README.windows", package="rgdal"))
>
> I am keen to try this for myself, but it will not be for a while yet.
>
> Best regards,
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Rainer Hurling<rhurlin at gwdg.de>  wrote:
>> Some days ago Brian Ripley and Uwe Ligges announced an update to MinGW-w64
>> builds for 64-bit Windows on R-devel at . This daily version works really nice.
>> But it is not fully applicable at this time because of some missing
>> packages.
>>
>> I am in particular interested in a 64-bit version of rgdal, which depends on
>> a 64-bit version of gdal(.dll). Is their anything known about what is
>> planned with this important part of spatial software?