OSGeo4W Packages
Notes on OSGeo4W Packages - downloads available at http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/release .
Low Level Libraries
avce00
- Arc/Info E00 <-> Binary Coverage translation
- Contains avcimport.exe and avcexport.exe commandline utilities
- Maintained by FrankW (packaged from Daniel's published binaries)
curl
- HTTP/FTP protocol library.
- Contains curl executable and library.
- Includes ssl libraries that can conflict with versions in \windows\system32
- Required for mapserver, and GDAL.
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
expat
- XML Parser (library only)
- Required for GDAL / OGDI
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
fcgi
- FastCGI library (for use by cgi's)
- Required for MapServer
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
hdf5
- Read and write HDF5 format raster files
- Required for GDAL
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
iconv
- character set transcoding library (internationalization)
- Required for MapServer, GRASS
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
libjpeg
- JPEG read/write library
- Currently split into libjpeg, and libjpeg-devel packages though these will likely be merged.
- Required for MapServer, GDAL
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
libtiff
- TIFF read/write library
- currently split into libtiff-bin, and libtiff-devel packages though these will likely be merged
- Currently derived from CVS head to capture BigTIFF support (libtiff 4.0 Alpha 2)
- Required for GDAL, MapServer
- Requires libjpeg, libz
- Maintained by FrankW
libgeotiff
- GeoTIFF header reading and writing library
- Includes library, a few commands and many support data files.
- Required by GDAL
- Requires libtiff
- Maintained by FrankW
libxml2
- XML read/write library
- Required by MapServer
- Maintained by FrankW (Derived from BuildKit)
msvcrt
- Various Microsoft Visual Studio C runtimes (VC6, VC7.1, VC8.0).
- No source available, but they are redistributable.
- Required most visual studio built packages.
- It might make sense to refactor this into specific 7.1, and 8.0 packages, and possibly remove MSVCRT.DLL which I think is available on all win32 systems already.
- Includes textreplace.exe used for postinstall scripts by lots of other packages.
- Maintained by FrankW
mysql
- MySQL client access library
- Actual package is called libmysql
- Required by GDAL (MapServer?)
- Maintained by FrankW (Derived from BuildKit)
NetCDF
- NetCDF file format reading and writing library
- Package includes library and a few executables (ncdump, etc)
- Required by GDAL
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
sqlite3
- SQLite3 database access library and sql engine.
- Includes library and commandline sqlite3 command.
- Required by GDAL, GRASS
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
xerces-c
- XML Parser
- Required by GDAL
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
zlib
- Deflate compression/decompression library
- Required by GDAL, libtiff
- Maintained by FrankW
libpq
- PostgreSQL client access library
- Required by GDAL, GRASS, MapServer
- Maintained by FrankW (derived from BuildKit)
proj
- Coordinate system transformation library
- Includes commandline tools (proj, cs2cs, geod)
- Currently lacks some datum shift files. Perhaps some supporting datum shift data should be a separate package?
- Required by GDAL, GRASS, MapServer
- Maintained by FrankW
GUI Libraries
Tcl/Tk
- Required by GRASS
- Normally done using ActiveState Tcl but this has license restrictions on redistributions. Not sure what our options are on this.
- Not yet packaged, no maintainer.
Qt4
- Required by QGIS and OSSIM
- Not yet packaged, no maintainer.
- Has been packaged by Tisham Dhar for QGIS win32 releases.
Script Languages
- see Tcl/Tk in the GUI Library group - mostly needed for GUI scriptinin in GRASS.
python
php
- Required for mapserver-php, and various higher level PHP packages (like Mapbender, Chameleon).
- Captured from MS4W.
- Lives in Apache directory (primarily Apache/php and Apache/cgi-bin).
- Maintained by FrankW
perl
- Required for Geoinformatica
- Perl bindings also exist for MapServer and GDAL
- Perl, built with MinGW, an example is Strawberry Perl but the compilation is not a problem
- Not packaged and no maintainer (but Ari Jolma might well take this on)
csharp
Apache
apache
- Web Server
- Required by various web packages.
- apache-install.bat, apache-restart.bat and apache-uninstall.bat exist in /bin to manipulate apache as an NT service.
- Maintained by FrankW (captured from MS4W).
apache-manual
- html documentation for Apache.
- Maintained by FrankW (captured from MS4W)
GDAL
gdal
- Raster / Vector format geospatial data access library
- Currently all one package including commands, python scripts, etc. Should likely factor into a -lib, -bin and -python set of components and a meta package for all of them.
- Python stuff not working yet.
- Should add C#, Perl, Java and perhaps Ruby bindings.
- Lots of extra formats ought to be added, including HDF4, OGDI, JasPer (maybe), ecw (nonfree), mrsid (nonfree), , dods/OPeNDAP, SDE (nonfree)
- Required by MapServer, GRASS, OSSIM, QGIS
- Requires libtiff, libjpeg, libgeotiff, proj, hdf5 curl geos libmysql sqlite3 netcdf libpq expat xerces-c
- Maintainer is FrankW
gdal-oracle10g
- Vector plugin for Oracle 10g (requires user supplied OCI.DLL normally from oracle instant client).
- Requires gdal
- Maintainer is FrankW (actually built by HowardB)
gdal-sde90
- Vector/Raster plugin for SDE 9.0 (requires user supplied ESRI SDE libraries).
- Requires gdal
- Maintainer is FrankW (actually built by HowardB)
gdal-sde91
- Vector/Raster plugin for SDE 9.1 (requires user supplied ESRI SDE libraries).
- Requires gdal
- Maintainer is FrankW (actually built by HowardB)
gdal-sde92
- Vector/Raster plugin for SDE 9.2 (requires user supplied ESRI SDE libraries).
- Requires gdal
- Maintainer is FrankW (actually built by HowardB)
mapserver
- Web Map Server with support for various OGC protocols such as WMS, WCS, WFS and SOS.
- Version string: "MapServer version 5.0.2 OUTPUT=GIF OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG OUTPUT=WBMP OUTPUT=SWF OUTPUT=SVG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WFS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=SOS_SERVER SUPPORTS=FASTCGI SUPPORTS=THREADS SUPPORTS=GEOS INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE"
- Several libraries (ie. AGG, ming(swf), freetype) are statically linked in but really should be factored out as dlls in distinct packages.
- Current package is just the cgi and utility executables.
- Needs bindings packages for php, perl, python, java and c#.
- Requires: curl geos libpq gdal proj iconv fcgi libxml2
- Maintained by FrankW
OSSIM
QGIS
- A desktop QIS
- Requires GDAL, Qt4, ...
- Tisham Dhar (what_nick)'s win32 builds are done using MinGW/MSYS and with some effort may be repurposed.
- FrankW taking action to migrate QGIS from GDAL/OGR C++ API to GDAL/OGR C API to avoid MinGW/VC++ DLL sharing problems.
- Not packaged, no maintainer (Tisham Dhar likely candidate)
GRASS
- A commandline and desktop raster/vector GIS system.
- requires: gdal, proj, libpng, Tcl/Tk (for GUI) and several other packages...
- Details on WinGRASS at: http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/WinGRASS_Current_Status
- Maintainer is FrankW.
- We likely want to distribute with MSYS package for commandline operations though I believe the WinGRASS objective is to not require this.
- WinGRASS is built with MSYS/MinGW currently. The build to use VC++ built GDAL required a configure hack on GRASS.
- There is a new python/wxWindows GUI in development we may want to include.
- A number of things still being built directly into GRASS instead of using proper packages (curses, freetype, libpng, libz, ...)
Geoinformatica
- GTK+, for example the one from Glade for Windows works
- Perl, built with MinGW, an example is Strawberry Perl but the compilation is not a problem
- A long list of Perl modules including GTK2 and Cairo
- GDAL and GDAL-Perl, built with MinGW and MSYS (I'm not sure if it's a requirement that GDAL has to be built with MSYS, probably not)
- all data source libraries (curl, postgis, expat, ...) are a plus and Proj4 and GEOS of course
- Useful: bash, gnuplot, and development tools: MinGW, MSYS, glade, doxygen
- Not packaged yet, and no maintainer (presumably Ari Jolma would be the maintainer)