GRASS

The GRASS support can be added to GDAL in two ways:

• as a built-in GRASS driver
• as a loadable GRASS driver plugin

Note, following instructions apply to Linux and other environments where GNU autotools are available (autoconf, automake, make).

Building GDAL with built-in GRASS driver

• Download and install ​GRASS together with development files (headers and libraries). The easiest option is to use binary packages prepared for your Linux distribution.

• Download latest stable or development version of GDAL sources:

tar -zxf gdal-1.4.1.tar.gz
cd gdal-1.4.1

• Configure GDAL sources with GRASS support included:

./configure --with-grass=/usr/lib/grass

and after ./configure finishes its job, you should see the GRASS driver enabled in the summary, like here:

GDAL is now configured for i686-pc-linux-gnu

  Installation directory:    /usr/local
  C compiler:                gcc -O2 
  C++ compiler:              g++ -O2 

  LIBTOOL support:           yes

  LIBZ support:              external
  GRASS support:             grass57+
...

Building GDAL and GRASS driver plugin

TBD