OSGeo4W Packages

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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)

shapelib

  • Shape file library and commandline utilities
  • Bryce Nesbitt's shpdiff thrown in for good measure.
  • Depends on PROJ
  • Maintained by FrankW

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
  • Alternative, new compile guide at http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html
  • 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)
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