FWTools/Windows Package Notes
Detailed per-package notes and special issues. All packages are
built from the latest CVS development software version unless otherwise
noted.
OpenEV
- Online documentation is included, including GDAL format documentation.
- A copy of gnuplot used for the histogram graphing tool is included.
- gvtest.exe is not distributed.
- Some testing and demonstration tools are omitted (ie. rendertest.py).
- Uses system provided OpenGL libraries. Mesa derived software DLLs
are available in FWTools\bin\Mesa\OpenGL32.dll if needed. Try copying
them into FWTools\bin and starting OpenEV from that directory.
- Includes full set of GTK1 libraries built from the "pkgsrc" tree in
the OpenEV CVS repository. Somewhat out of date relative to the latest
GTK1 releases available.
GDAL
Raster Drivers:
- Built with JPEG2000 support via Kakadu (JP2KAK driver).
- Built with support for OGDI raster formats (ie. CIB).
- Built with HDF4 driver support.
- Built with HDF5 driver support.
- Built with netCDF driver support.
- Built with ECW driver support.
- Built using external libjpeg, libtiff and libgeotiff libraries.
Vector Drivers:
- Built with OGDI vector formats (ie. VMAP0)
- Built with PostGIS client support.
- Built with SQLite support.
- Built with GML read/write support (via Xerces 1.7.0).
- Built with FMEObjects driver support (if FME is already installed).
- DLL is named ogdi_fw.dll.
General:
- The GDAL python utilities are distributed with .bat file launchers so
you can invoke commands like "rgb2pct in.tif out.tif" without overtly invoking
python or including the .py extensions.
- Executables are built with wildcard expansion so "gdaltindex out.shp *.tif" will work. Wrapped python scripts do not support wildcard expansion, so "gdal_merge -o out.tif *.img" will not work.
- The GDAL DLL is named gdal_fw.dll, rather than the normal name.
- Include files are available in include directory.
- Stub library for linking (gdal_i.lib) is available in lib directory.
PROJ.4
- Includes proj.exe, cs2cs.exe, geod.exe, and nad2bin.exe commands.
- Includes full set of free distribution grid files (see FWTools\proj_lib).
- DLL is named proj_fw.dll.
- Include files are available in include directory.
- Stub library for linking (proj_i.lib) is available in lib directory.
MapServer
- Includes GIF, PNG and JPEG GD output support (GD 2.0.30/BGD.DLL).
- Includes Freetype2 (but no fonts are distributed).
- Includes WMS, WFS, and WCS server support.
- Includes WMS and WFS client support.
- Includes Shapefile, OGR, GDAL and PostGIS reading support.
- MapServer debug logging is available (DEBUG=MSDEBUG).
- Includes Python MapScript.
- Includes full suite of MapServer executables including
mapserv.exe, shp2img.exe, shptree.exe, and tile4ms.exe. Note that
gdaltindex.exe and ogrtindex.exe are also included from GDAL.
- Built using libmap as a DLL (libmap_fw.dll). In general, to use
mapserv.exe as a cgi you will need most of the DLLs in FWTools\bin in
your cgi path.
OGDI
- Includes ogdi_info.exe, ogdi_import.exe, gltpd.exe and portmap.exe
executables.
- Includes ADRG, VPF, RPF, and DTED drivers.
libgeotiff
- Includes PROJ.4 support in listgeo.exe.
- Includes listgeo.exe, and geotifcp.exe.
- The DLL is named geotiff_fw.dll.
- Include files are available in include directory.
- Stub library for linking (geotiff_i.lib) is available in lib directory.
- Full set of EPSG csv files available in FWTools/data.
libtiff
- Built with optional LZW, Deflate, and JPEG compression support.
- Full suite of statndard libtiff executables included.
- Include files are available in include directory.
- Stub library for linking (libtiff_i.lib) is available in lib directory.
Python
- Distributed with Python 2.3.4.
- Includes Numeric add on package.