[FWTools] Dependency on openssl?

[Karl Meissner]

ok thanks for the info.
Karl

On 8/20/2012 11:25 AM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Selon Karl Meissner <kmeissner at metavr.com>:
>
> Note that the FWTools binary distribution has not been updated since a long
> time. You might better look at
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadingGdalBinaries for more recent
> versions.
>
> As far as including GDAL in commercial products, there's no problem. You must be
> careful of the terms of the potential dependency libraries though (which may
> vary from one binary distribution to another one, depending on how they have
> been built). So you might have to do a more minimalistic build if you don't need
> some dependencies whose licence doesn't fit your purpose.
>
> As far as the openssl dependency, I guess this must comes from libcurl, which is
> the library which is used to download data for the WMS and WCS GDAL drivers.
>
> If you need just to read&write shapefiles, you can download the GDAL/OGR sources
> ( http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource ) and build it directly with
> MSVC ( http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildingOnWindows ). There's no external
> dependency needed. This is just a matter of running "nmake /f makefile.vc" from
> the top of the source tree.
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am a developer working on a commercial application that needs to read
>> and write Esri shape files as part of the our data layer.
>> A bit of googling led me too OGR and the FWTool distribution.
>> please for forgive two newbie questions....
>>
>>
>> Question #1)
>> Just a parnoid double check... the license seems to say it is fine to
>> include these libs as part of our commercial product and distribute them
>> as binaries in our installer.   The libraries will be used as minor
>> components in a much larger application.
>> http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/LICENSE.TXT
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#WhatlicensedoesGDALOGRuse
>>
>>
>> Question #2)
>> I downloaded and installed FWTools 2.4.7 (Windows 32bit)
>>
>> Then I tried to write,compile and run the simple C++ sample at
>> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_apitut.html
>>
>> I got a runtime error on the very first line
>>
>>    OGRRegisterAll
>>
> <http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr__api_8h.html#ae904632d0bc86ba5501921ca594e18da>();
>>
>> a popup
>> "The ordinal 3724 could not be located in the dynamic link library
>> LIBEAY32.dll"
>> google seem to indicate that openssl needed to be updated.   WTF?
>>
>> So yes, when I downloaded and installed the open ssl drivers from
>> http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html
>> the tutorial app runs fine and I can parse a simple shape file.
>>
>> okaaaaay...
>> but why does running GIS file convert need openssl at all?
>> Is something in the lib talking to the network?
>> I was just reading a sample shp file off the disk.
>> Is this a dependency that my customers will need to update as well when
>> they run an instance of the library?
>>
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