Building GDAL/OGR

• DownloadSource - getting source from packages or subversion
• SupportedCompilers - table of compilers and versions tested to successfully build GDAL

Unix Issues

• BuildingOnUnix - the basics of building on Unix.
• BuildingOnUnixWithMinimizedDrivers - instructions for building GDAL on Unix with minimal set of drivers
• LargeFileSupport - supporting files larger than 4GB.
• SolarisNotes - notes about building GDAL on Solaris
• IRIXBuild - notes about building GDAL on IRIX with MIPSpro compiler
• OpenEmbedded - notes about building GDAL for OpenEmbedded
• BuildingOnUnixWithNetBeansIDE - instructions for building GDAL on Unix using  NetBeans IDE
• BuildingForAndroid - instructions for cross-compiling GDAL for use on Android devices.
• BuildingOnMac - instructions for building GDAL on Mac OS.

Windows Issues

• BuildingOnWindows - the basics of building on Windows using  Microsoft Visual C++
• BuildingOnWindowsWithMinimizedDrivers - instructions for building GDAL on Windows with minimal set of drivers
• BuildingWithMinGW - guide about how to build on Windows using  MinGW
•  WinCE - issue related to GDAL on the WinCE platform.

External Library Issues

• ECW - using ECW SDK for .ecw and JPEG2000
• Epsilon - issues when using Epsilon library
• FileGDB - Building with ESRI FileGDB API driver
• GRASS - building GDAL with GRASS support.
• HDF - building in HDF support.
• JasPer - another library for JPEG2000 support.
• JP2KAK - Kakadu library is one JPEG2000 option.
• JpegIPP - building with IPP version of libjpeg.
• TIFF12BitJPEG - building with support for 8 and 12 bit jpeg compressed TIFF.
• LibCurl - building WMS/WCS/HTTP drivers using libcurl.
• mdbtools - using the OGR PGeo driver with mdbtools under Linux.
• MrSID - using MRSID SDK for .sid and JPEG2000.
• MSG - using EUMETSAT Wavelet Transform Software to enable MSG driver
• NetCDF - use netcdf library.
• TIFF - building and using GDAL with TIFF/GeoTIFF support.
• Oracle - building and using OGR with Oracle support.
• SQLite - building and using OGR with SQLite support.
• Ingres - building and using OGR with Ingres support.
• DxfDwg - building DXFDWG driver (spike branch)
• LibKML - building LIBKML driver on Windows.
• SOSI - building with the Norwegian SOSI driver.
• ArcSDE - building with ArcSDE client libraries.
• SfcomOledb - Notes on deprecated SFCOM/OLEDB Provider

Foreign function interface

• SWIG - the technology for the new generation wrappers
• Perl - building the Perl interface