Matt, If there is a work around it's better to avoid building. HDF4 requires some extra libraries. They are probably missing.
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Matt Funk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chaitanya, > no, i didn't build it myself. I simply downloaded the self-installing > package for gdal found at: http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ > I am a little unfamiliar still with building stuff on windows, so i am not > sure whether it's worth trying to build gdal and the python bindings from > scratch or simply use h4toh5 called from the script. > > thanks > matt > > > On 3/3/2011 9:30 PM, Chaitanya kumar CH wrote: > > Matt, > > Did you build GDAL yourself? HDF4 format is not compiled by default. You > can check if this by running the command "gdalinfo --formats". See if HDF4 > is in the output. > http://www.gdal.org/frmt_hdf4.html > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Matt Funk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> i am using python/gdal. I am trying to open a MODIS satellite file from >> the Terra satellite (which is hdf4-eos format). Doing: >> ds = gdal.Open(file) >> drivertype=ds.GetDriver().LongName >> >> returns >> ERROR 4: >> `C:/tmp/SrcData/2010Data/MODISData/MOD03/MOD03.A2010002.1810.005.2010258062733.hdf' >> not recognised as a supported file format. >> >> Is this file format not supported? >> >> thanks >> matt >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gdal-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Chaitanya kumar CH. > /tʃaɪθənjə/ /kʊmɑr/ > +91-9494447584 > 17.2416N 80.1426E > > > > _______________________________________________ > gdal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev > -- Best regards, Chaitanya kumar CH. /tʃaɪθənjə/ /kʊmɑr/ +91-9494447584 17.2416N 80.1426E
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