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Hi <br>
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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. <br>
A bit of googling led me too OGR and the FWTool distribution. <br>
please for forgive two newbie questions....<br>
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Question #1)<br>
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. <br>
<a href="http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/LICENSE.TXT">http://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal/LICENSE.TXT</a><br>
<a
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#WhatlicensedoesGDALOGRuse">http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FAQGeneral#WhatlicensedoesGDALOGRuse</a><br>
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Question #2)<br>
I downloaded and installed FWTools 2.4.7 (Windows 32bit)<br>
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Then I tried to write,compile and run the simple C++ sample at<br>
<a href="http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_apitut.html">http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr_apitut.html</a><br>
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I got a runtime error on the very first line<br>
<pre class="fragment" style="font-family: monospace, fixed; font-size: 9pt; border: 1px solid rgb(196, 207, 229); background-color: rgb(251, 252, 253); padding: 4px 6px; margin: 4px 8px 4px 2px; overflow: auto; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 14.545454025268555px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "> <a class="code" href="http://www.gdal.org/ogr/ogr__api_8h.html#ae904632d0bc86ba5501921ca594e18da" title="Register all drivers." style="color: rgb(70, 101, 162); font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; ">OGRRegisterAll</a>();</pre>
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a popup<br>
"The ordinal 3724 could not be located in the dynamic link library
LIBEAY32.dll"<br>
google seem to indicate that openssl needed to be updated. WTF?<br>
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So yes, when I downloaded and installed the open ssl drivers from <br>
<a href="http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html">http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html</a><br>
the tutorial app runs fine and I can parse a simple shape file. <br>
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okaaaaay...<br>
but why does running GIS file convert need openssl at all?<br>
Is something in the lib talking to the network?<br>
I was just reading a sample shp file off the disk. <br>
Is this a dependency that my customers will need to update as well
when they run an instance of the library?<br>
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