On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > I'm positive they are binary *.so. The more important development is > http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html > > Which means yes support could be available soon via gdal/ogr. > > I just grabbed it real quick and it looks like this format is going to > be like Mrsid and ECW where individual users will need to get the files > and patch their gdal installs. > > The download has 2 .so files and a directory of .h files which I believe > are API samples. > > The author of the gdal driver is a Mac user though so we should follow > up with him about if he's found a way to get it to work on MAC. > The only way it can work natively on OS X is if ESRI made OS X libraries available (they didn't) or source available (they didn't). It could be done on virtualized Linux, but no Mac programs would be able to use it.
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