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Has anyone been successful in building gdal with read/write support of file geodatabases? I am able to build successfully, just never see FileGDB as in the supported vector formats. Here is what I am doing:

  1. Download latest gdal trunk (example: gdalsvn-trunk-20110822.zip)
  2. Open the makegdal10.sln file in Visual Studio 2010
  3. Edit the nmake.opt file, the ONLY thing I modify at this point is the GDAL_HOME variable, the FGDB section is still commented out. Everything else left as is.
  4. Build Solution ------>SUCCESS
  5. Uncomment the FGDB Section and set path to FGDB SDK
  6. Open Visual Studio command line tools and cd to /ogr/ogrsf_frmts/filegdb
  7. Execute nmake /f makefile.vc plugin ------>SUCCESS - I now have ogr_FileGDB.dll in that folder

Now, I copy the ogr_FileGDB.dll and the FileGDBAPI.dll to the bin folder containing ogr2ogr.exe. When I run ogr2ogr --formats, I never get FileGDB as a format.

Am I missing something here?

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    From your description you didn't rebuild ogr2ogr with filegdb enabled. You just built the filegdb library. The two aren't linked based on the steps you describe.
    – Sean
    Commented Aug 23, 2011 at 13:02
  • You might also try the gdal-dev mailing list: lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
    – neuhausr
    Commented Aug 23, 2011 at 13:57
  • I think @Sean's comment is really an answer.
    – matt wilkie
    Commented Sep 1, 2011 at 17:04

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You need to define the GDAL_DRIVER_PATH environnement variable to point to the path where you put ogr_FileGDB.dll. Make sure also that the filegdb sdk DLLs are accessible in the PATH or put them next to ogr_FileGDB.dll. I've updated http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/FileGDB to be more explicit about that

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