[Xastir] Re: Cygwin, Xastir, and GDAL up! Now time for S-57 maps...

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Jason & Kim Conolly wrote:

> I finally found that I had to use the internal libraries for GDAL for
> JPEG and libtiff support.  It took me a while to go back to the Xastir
> Readme.W32 FAQ and remember I had to wipe out GDAL instead of just
> re-making it.  Once I rm -rvf'd GDAL, I reconfigured it with the options:
> ./configure --with-jpeg=internal --with-libtiff=internal
> (I found these buried in the Building GDAL on Unix documentation.
> Apparently, the GDAL configure is not very savvy about library
> versions).   This might be a useful note for anyone else that attempts
> wandering down this path.  You might be able to confirm it with your
> known Cygwin/Xastir/GDAL user referenced in the .W32 FAQ.

Thanks.


> My starting point for this journey has been to try to use NOAA S-57
> charts with APRS.  With GDAL et. al. installed, Xastir reports that it
> now has S-57 map support.  However, dragging an S-57 file xxxxxx.000
> into the maps directory does not cause it to show up in the chooser
> list.  I did try forcing a reindex of maps from within running Xastir,
> and tried a complete computer restart.

Rename filename.000 to filename.s57, reindex.


> I believe you mentioned you had done some preliminary testing with GDAL
> and S-57 support in Xastir.  Are there any secrets to pulling up an S-57
> file?

Just the rename.  Xastir keys off the file extension in order to
know which map module to throw the file at.

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