GDAL/OGR Binaries

The GDAL project does not produce regular downloadable binaries (executables) for each release. However, a variety of efforts do produce ready to use binaries.

FWTools

The FWTools binary releases for Linux and Windows systems include the full set of GDAL libraries, utilities, python support and documentation along with lots of other stuff (including the OpenEV viewer). More information is available at:

​http://fwtools.maptools.org/

The FWTools binaries for Linux should work on pretty much any modern Intel Linux system.

Linux

GDAL RPMs for OpenSuSE together with many other Geo-Tools are provided at ​http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/

Slightly out of date RPMs for ​SUSE, ​Mandriva and ​Fedora Core 4 are maintained by GDF Hannover Germany.

​http://www.gdf-hannover.de/software

GDAL 1.4.2, geos 2.2.3 and proj-4.5.0 are in Fedora 6 Extra. You can get the ​source RPMS or the ​i386 binaries

GDAL 1.4.1, geos 2.2.3 and proj-4.5.0 are now parts of Fedora 7 (Core and Extra have been merged together). You can get the ​source RPMs or the ​i386 binaries. GDAL 1.4.2 is available as an update for Fedora 7: ​source RPMs and ​i386 binaries

GDAL 1.4.2, geos 2.2.3 and proj-4.5.0 are in Fedora 8. You can get the ​source RPMs or the ​i386 binaries.

The ​Debian GIS team maintains ​GDAL packages for ​Debian GNU/Linux.

Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty) contains GDAL 1.3.1, geos 2.2.1 and proj-4.4.9 in the universe repository. More recent versions are available in the unofficial ​Les-ejk UbuntuGIS multiverse repository. For more information, you can consult the ​UbuntuGIS page.

Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy) contains GDAL 1.4.1, geos 2.2.3 and proj-4.5.0 in the universe repository.

MacOS X

William Kyngesburye maintains an extensive set of framework builds for GDAL and other GIS software at:

​http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/unixport/frameworks

Windows

Minimalist windows executables are available at:

​http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/1.5/gdalwin32exe150.zip

Other plugins will be added in the same location (such as Oracle/OCI):

​http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/

A more featureful set of windows binaries, including python, proj and c# support is available as part of the ​FWTools package.

Windows binaries built in MinGW are available at:

​http://map.hut.fi/files/Geoinformatica/snapshots/

The Geoinformatica-yy-mm-dd.zip contains GDAL (usually a development version), Perl-GDAL, Perl, and many other things.

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Are you maintaining GDAL binaries for a platform? Please feel free to add pointers to the above!