Sincere thanks Zac! So helpful.

Hmm. With version 10.gdb INFO: Open of /Users/me/TestGDAL.gdb' using driver FileGDB' successful. And won't work with .gdb's created in 9.3, as expected. But after following the symlink instructions, I fail adding in QGIS (What Type do you choose after selecting Directory button, btw?) and I cannot convert with ogr2ogr - - it gives no messages or anything, can't find a -flag for more verbose message.

There's a --debug flag you can pass to ogr2ogr that might print some information. Also, in QGIS I didn't select any format, so whatever is selected by default worked for me. I did get errors opening some files in QGIS, but I think they were 9.x gdb's. What format are you trying to convert to with ogr2ogr?

Here's output from my machine:

➜  ~ ogrinfo ~/Downloads/test_fgdb.gdb
INFO: Open of `/Users/zacmcc/Downloads/test_fgdb.gdb'
      using driver `FileGDB' successful.
1: basetable_2 (None)
2: basetable (None)
3: base_table1 (None)
4: test_lines (3D Multi Line String)
5: more_test_lines (3D Multi Line String)
6: test_points (3D Point)
7: test_areas (3D Multi Polygon)

Is it feasible to think that this could be integrated into Homebrew's gdal.rb somehow? That would be extremely slick...

@rclark it would be technically possible to do, but I don't think it'd be accepted because the FileGDB API is available only in binary form and requires you to agree to a license. There are other GDAL plugins besides the GDB one that fall into the same category. See this section of the current formula: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/gdal.rb#L151

I just keep multiple versions of GDAL on my machine. I use /usr/local for the stable homebrew build and have a ~/local for all other custom built stuff (like this...) and use a shell script to edit my $PATH so I can select which GDAL I want to use.

Thanks for the info. I guess you could make your own gdal.rb too, and just keep it local. I'll have to look into that. Otherwise it sounds like you've got a good setup.

I was wondering if you had a chance to test this against the 1.9.1 or current svn branches? I was trying to build against the svn trunk today and was unable to get the filegdb api detected when running ./configure after applying the supplied configure.in.

I haven't tried against the latest GDAL source. I will test it out when I get a chance and post back here. Thanks!

@jctull

I downloaded GDAL 1.9.1 and was able to get it built and working. I updated this gist with the new configure.in script. Note that you have to run ./autogen.sh after changing the configure.in file.

Here is the new configure.in for 1.9.1: https://gist.github.com/2784084

➜  ~/local/src/gdal-1.9.1 ogrinfo --version
GDAL 1.9.1, released 2012/05/15
➜  ~/local/src/gdal-1.9.1 ogrinfo ~/Downloads/demo.gdb
INFO: Open of `/Users/zacmcc/Downloads/demo.gdb'
      using driver `FileGDB' successful.
1: layer1 (Multi Polygon)
2: layer2 (Multi Polygon)

Thanks for this--it's exactly what I needed. However, I'm having trouble getting QGIS to work with the custom build of GDAL. GDAL builds successfully as it's able to open the test GDB. However, when I try to open QGIS, it crashes with the following error:

Dyld Error Message:
  Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.9/GDAL
  Referenced from: /Applications/QGIS.app/Contents/MacOS/QGIS
  Reason: image not found

I checked and the symlink is pointing to the right place. Any ideas on what else to check? Thanks.

@caseypt

It looks like you're running the new version of QGIS (1.8) that wants the GDAL 1.9 Framework. Did you install the 1.9 framework and change the paths when doing the symlink stuff? I hadn't tested with QGIS 1.8 until now and it did work for me.

When I installed QGIS 1.8, I also installed the GDAL 1.9 Complete Framework from KyngChaos (it won't mess up your custom compiled GDAL...)

http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/frameworks

# save your current GDAL so you can put it back if you want
cp /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.9/GDAL /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.9/GDAL_orig

# symlink the custom GDAL build to the place QGIS looks
rm /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.9/GDAL
ln -s ~/local/lib/libgdal.dylib /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.9/GDAL

From the looks of the error, it seems like /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.9/GDAL either doesn't exist, or isn't a dylib.

You can run otool -L /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.9/GDAL and it should output all of the shared libraries it loads.

@zhm Thanks for the quick reply. I rebuilt GDAL, this time taking your advice to not mess with DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and set filegdb_api paths explicitly. Now it works! Thanks for your help.

@caseypt sweet! Glad you got it working!

Good stuff

Another simpler approach is to use Homebrew http://blog.burhum.com/post/34851795066/installing-gdal-ogr-with-filegdb-support-on-osx-with

@rburhum: Your simplified approach does not work for me using the latest gdal formula with homebrew. This would be a nice and simple method, but the filegdb path is not getting picked up for some reason for me. I used the symlink approach, so maybe that is part of the problem. Also, gdal.rb changed in the past day or so to reflect new approaches for writing install formulae. This might also have something to do with it.

In the absence of this simplified approach, I have resorted to using a custom formula that performs the necessary patching. I use this statement for my homebrew install, assuming the custom gdal formula is in /usr/local/Library/Formula. I use the -v switch so I can verify desired file support is in place during the configuration phase of the install:

brew install --enable-unsupported --with-postgres --enable-armadillo --enable-opencl --complete gdal.rb -v --env=std

This is based off of the most current gdal formula as of this writing, https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/67303dd89396ccecff0915a933b81a224eb00d5a/Library/Formula/gdal.rb:

require 'formula'

def complete?
build.include? "complete"
end

def postgres?
build.include? "with-postgres"
end

def mysql?
build.include? "with-mysql"
end

def no_python?
build.include? "without-python"
end

def which_python
"python" + python -c 'import sys;print(sys.version[:3])'.strip
end

def opencl?
build.include? "enable-opencl"
end

def armadillo?
build.include? "enable-armadillo"
end

class Gdal < Formula
homepage 'http://www.gdal.org/'
url 'http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/gdal-1.9.2.tar.gz'
sha1 '7eda6a4d735b8d6903740e0acdd702b43515e351'

head 'https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/trunk/gdal'

option 'complete', 'Use additional Homebrew libraries to provide more drivers.'
option 'with-postgres', 'Specify PostgreSQL as a dependency.'
option 'with-mysql', 'Specify MySQL as a dependency.'
option 'without-python', 'Build without Python support (disables a lot of tools).'
option 'enable-opencl', 'Build with OpenCL acceleration.'
option 'enable-armadillo', 'Build with Armadillo accelerated TPS transforms.'
option 'enable-unsupported', "Allow configure to drag in any library it can find. Invoke this at your own risk."

For creating up to date man pages.

depends_on 'doxygen' => :build if build.head?

depends_on :libpng

depends_on 'jpeg'
depends_on 'giflib'
depends_on 'proj'
depends_on 'geos'
depends_on 'libtiff'
depends_on 'libgeotiff'
depends_on 'sqlite' # To ensure compatibility with SpatiaLite.
depends_on 'freexl'
depends_on 'libspatialite'

depends_on "postgresql" if postgres?
depends_on "mysql" if mysql?

Without Numpy, the Python bindings can't deal with raster data.

depends_on 'numpy' => :python unless no_python?

depends_on 'armadillo' if armadillo?

if complete?
# Raster libraries
depends_on "netcdf" # Also brings in HDF5
depends_on "jasper"
depends_on "poppler"
depends_on "webp"
depends_on "cfitsio"
depends_on "epsilon"
depends_on "libdap"
# Fix a bug in LibDAP detection and patch FileGDB support
def patches; DATA; end unless build.head?

# Vector libraries
depends_on "unixodbc" # OS X version is not complete enough
depends_on "xerces-c"

# Other libraries
depends_on "xz" # get liblzma compression algorithm library from XZutils

end

def options
[
['--complete', 'Use additional Homebrew libraries to provide more drivers.'],
['--with-postgres', 'Specify PostgreSQL as a dependency.'],
['--with-mysql', 'Specify MySQL as a dependency.'],
['--without-python', 'Build without Python support (disables a lot of tools).'],
['--enable-opencl', 'Build with OpenCL acceleration.'],
['--enable-armadillo', 'Build with Armadillo accelerated TPS transforms.']
]
end

def get_configure_args
args = [
# Base configuration.
"--prefix=#{prefix}",
"--mandir=#{man}",
"--disable-debug",
"--with-local=#{prefix}",
"--with-threads",
"--with-libtool",

  # GDAL native backends.
  "--with-pcraster=internal",
  "--with-pcidsk=internal",
  "--with-bsb",
  "--with-grib",
  "--with-pam",

  # Backends supported by OS X.
  "--with-libiconv-prefix=/usr",
  "--with-libz=/usr",
  "--with-png=#{(MacOS.version >= :mountain_lion) ? HOMEBREW_PREFIX : MacOS::X11.prefix}",
  "--with-expat=/usr",
  "--with-curl=/usr/bin/curl-config",

  # Default Homebrew backends.
  "--with-jpeg=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
  "--with-jpeg12",
  "--with-libtiff=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
  "--with-geotiff=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
  "--with-gif=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
  "--with-sqlite3=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
  "--with-freexl=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
  "--with-spatialite=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}",
  "--with-geos=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/bin/geos-config",

  # GRASS backend explicitly disabled.  Creates a chicken-and-egg problem.
  # Should be installed separately after GRASS installation using the
  # official GDAL GRASS plugin.
  "--without-grass",
  "--without-libgrass"
]

# Optional Homebrew packages supporting additional formats.
supported_backends = %w[
  liblzma
  fgdb
  cfitsio
  hdf5
  netcdf
  jasper
  xerces
  odbc
  dods-root
  epsilon
  webp
  libkml
  poppler
]
if complete?
  supported_backends.delete 'liblzma'
  supported_backends.delete 'fgdb'
  args << '--with-liblzma=yes'
  args << '--with-fgdb=/Users/jctull/sources/FileGDB_API'
  args.concat supported_backends.map {|b| '--with-' + b + '=' + HOMEBREW_PREFIX}
else
  args.concat supported_backends.map {|b| '--without-' + b} unless build.include? 'enable-unsupported'
end

# The following libraries are either proprietary, not available for public
# download or have no stable version in the Homebrew core that is
# compatible with GDAL. Interested users will have to install such software
# manually and most likely have to tweak the install routine.
#
# Podofo is disabled because Poppler provides the same functionality and
# then some.
unsupported_backends = %w[
  gta
  ogdi
  fme
  hdf4
  openjpeg
  ecw
  kakadu
  mrsid
  jp2mrsid
  mrsid_lidar
  msg
  oci
  ingres
  dwgdirect
  idb
  sde
  podofo
  rasdaman
]
args.concat unsupported_backends.map {|b| '--without-' + b} unless build.include? 'enable-unsupported'

# Database support.
args << (postgres? ? "--with-pg=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/bin/pg_config" : '--without-pg')
args << (mysql? ? "--with-mysql=#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/bin/mysql_config" : '--without-mysql')

# Python is installed manually to ensure everything is properly sandboxed.
args << '--without-python'

# Scripting APIs that have not been re-worked to respect Homebrew prefixes.
#
# Currently disabled as they install willy-nilly into locations outside of
# the Homebrew prefix.  Enable if you feel like it, but uninstallation may be
# a manual affair.
#
# TODO: Fix installation of script bindings so they install into the
# Homebrew prefix.
args << "--without-perl"
args << "--without-php"
args << "--without-ruby"

args << (opencl? ? '--with-opencl' : '--without-opencl')
args << (armadillo? ? '--with-armadillo=yes' : '--with-armadillo=no')

return args

end

def install
# Linking flags for SQLite are not added at a critical moment when the GDAL
# library is being assembled. This causes the build to fail due to missing
# symbols.
#
# Fortunately, this can be remedied using LDFLAGS.
ENV.append 'LDFLAGS', '-lsqlite3'
# Needed by libdap.
ENV.append 'CPPFLAGS', '-I/usr/include/libxml2' if complete?

# Reset ARCHFLAGS to match how we build.
if MacOS.prefer_64_bit?
  ENV['ARCHFLAGS'] = "-arch x86_64"
else
  ENV['ARCHFLAGS'] = "-arch i386"
end

system "echo 'It is necessary to use --env=std.'" unless build.head?
system "./autogen.sh" unless build.head?
system "./configure", *get_configure_args
system "make"
system "make install"

unless no_python?
  # If setuptools happens to be installed, setup.py will cowardly refuse to
  # install to anywhere that is not on the PYTHONPATH.
  #
  # Really setuptools, we're all consenting adults here...
  python_lib = lib + which_python + 'site-packages'
  ENV.append 'PYTHONPATH', python_lib

  # setuptools is also apparently incapable of making the directory it's
  # self
  python_lib.mkpath

  # `python-config` may try to talk us into building bindings for more
  # architectures than we really should.
  if MacOS.prefer_64_bit?
    ENV.append_to_cflags '-arch x86_64'
  else
    ENV.append_to_cflags '-arch i386'
  end

  cd 'swig/python' do
    system "python", "setup.py", "install_lib", "--install-dir=#{python_lib}"
    bin.install Dir['scripts/*']
  end
end

system 'make', 'man' if build.head?
system 'make', 'install-man'
# Clean up any stray doxygen files.
Dir[bin + '*.dox'].each { |p| rm p }

end

unless no_python?
def caveats
<<-EOS
This version of GDAL was built with Python support. In addition to providing
modules that makes GDAL functions available to Python scripts, the Python
binding provides ~18 additional command line tools.

Unless you are using Homebrew's Python, both the bindings and the
additional tools will be unusable unless the following directory is added to
the PYTHONPATH:

#{HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/lib/#{which_python}/site-packages
  EOS
end

end
end

END
Fix test for LibDAP >= 3.10.

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 997bbbf..a1928d5 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -24197,7 +24197,7 @@ else
rm -f islibdappost310.*
echo '#include "Connect.h"' > islibdappost310.cpp
echo 'int main(int argc, char** argv) { return 0; } ' >> islibdappost310.cpp
-if test -z "${CXX} islibdappost310.cpp -c ${DODS_INC} 2>&1" ; then
+if test -z "${CXX} islibdappost310.cpp -c ${DODS_INC} ${CPPFLAGS} 2>&1" ; then
DODS_INC="$DODS_INC -DLIBDAP_310 -DLIBDAP_39"
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: libdap >= 3.10" >&5
$as_echo "libdap >= 3.10" >&6; }

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index a3ca3a1..6c6205e 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1649,14 +1649,14 @@ else

HAVE_OPENJPEG=yes
LIBS="-L$with_openjpeg -L$with_openjpeg/lib -lopenjpeg $LIBS"

• if test -r $with_openjpeg/include/openjpeg-2.0/openjpeg.h ; then
• EXTRA_INCLUDES="-I$with_openjpeg/include/openjpeg-2.0 $EXTRA_INCLUDES"
• if test -r $with_openjpeg/include/openjpeg-1.99/openjpeg.h ; then
• EXTRA_INCLUDES="-I$with_openjpeg/include/openjpeg-1.99 $EXTRA_INCLUDES"
  elif test -r $with_openjpeg/include/openjpeg.h ; then
  EXTRA_INCLUDES="-I$with_openjpeg/include $EXTRA_INCLUDES"
  elif test -r $with_openjpeg/openjpeg.h ; then
  EXTRA_INCLUDES="-I$with_openjpeg $EXTRA_INCLUDES"
  else
• AC_MSG_ERROR([openjpeg.h not found in $with_openjpeg/include or $with_openjpeg/include/openjpeg-2.0])
• AC_MSG_ERROR([openjpeg.h not found in $with_openjpeg/include or $with_openjpeg/include/openjpeg-1.99])
  fi

AC_CHECK_LIB(openjpeg,opj_decode_tile_data,HAVE_OPENJPEG=yes,HAVE_OPENJPEG=no,)
@@ -1710,15 +1710,39 @@ elif test "$with_fgdb" = "yes" -o "$with_fgdb" = "" ; then
rm -f testfgdb

else

• case "${host_os}" in
• darwin)

•  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for libFileGDBAPI.dylib in in $with_fgdb/lib]) 
  

•  FGDB_ENABLED=yes
  

•  if test -r $with_fgdb/lib/libFileGDBAPI.dylib ; then
  

•    AC_MSG_RESULT([found.])
  

• AC_MSG_CHECKING([for libFileGDBAPI.so in in $with_fgdb/lib])
• FGDB_ENABLED=yes
• if test -r $with_fgdb/lib/libFileGDBAPI.so ; then
• AC_MSG_RESULT([found.])
• FGDB_LIB="-L$with_fgdb/lib -lFileGDBAPI"
• else
• AC_MSG_ERROR([not found.])
• fi

•    FGDB_LIB="-L$with_fgdb/lib -lFileGDBAPI -lfgdbunixrtl"
  

•  else
  

•    AC_MSG_ERROR([not found.])
  

•  fi
  

•  ;;
  
• *)

•  AC_MSG_CHECKING([for libFileGDBAPI.so in in $with_fgdb/lib]) 
  

•  FGDB_ENABLED=yes
  

•  if test -r $with_fgdb/lib/libFileGDBAPI.so ; then
  

•    AC_MSG_RESULT([found.])
  

•    FGDB_LIB="-L$with_fgdb/lib -lFileGDBAPI -lfgdblinuxrtl"
  

•  else
  

•    AC_MSG_ERROR([not found.])
  

•  fi
  

•  ;;
  

• esac

• #AC_MSG_CHECKING([for libFileGDBAPI.so in in $with_fgdb/lib])
• #FGDB_ENABLED=yes
• #if test -r $with_fgdb/lib/libFileGDBAPI.so ; then
• #AC_MSG_RESULT([found.])
• #FGDB_LIB="-L$with_fgdb/lib -lFileGDBAPI"
• #else
• #AC_MSG_ERROR([not found.])
• #fi

AC_MSG_CHECKING([for FileGDBAPI.h in $with_fgdb/include])
if test -r $with_fgdb/include/FileGDBAPI.h ; then
@@ -3415,6 +3453,10 @@ dnl RHEL6
elif test -d /usr/lib/jvm/java-openjdk; then
with_java="/usr/lib/jvm/java-openjdk"

+dnl OS X and possibly others

• elif test -d /usr/libexec/java_home; then

•    with_java=`/usr/libexec/java_home`
  

  dnl elif test -d /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Headers; then
  dnl JAVA_INC="-I/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Headers"

@@ -3447,6 +3489,10 @@ elif test "x$with_java" != "x" -a "x$with_java" != "xno"; then
JAVA_HOME="$with_java"
JAVA_INC="-I$JAVA_HOME/include -I$JAVA_HOME/include/freebsd"
AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])

•    elif test -d "$with_java/include"; then
  

•        JAVA_HOME="$with_java"
  

•        JAVA_INC="-I$JAVA_HOME/include"
  

•        AC_MSG_RESULT([yes])
   else
       AC_MSG_ERROR("Cannot find $with_java/include/linux or solaris or freebsd directory.")
   fi
  

  @@ -3483,10 +3529,27 @@ if test "$with_mdb" = "yes" ; then

  if test "x$with_jvm_lib" != "x"; then
  if test -d "$with_jvm_lib"; then

•        saved_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
  

•        LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$with_jvm_lib"
  

•        AC_CHECK_LIB(jvm,JNI_CreateJavaVM,HAS_LIB_JVM=yes,HAS_LIB_JVM=no,)
  

•        LDFLAGS="$saved_LDFLAGS"
  

•      dnl OS X needs a check against the JavaVM.framework
  

•      if test -d /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines; then
  

•          saved_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
  

•          CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $ABI_FLAGS $JAVA_INC"
  

•          LIBS="$LIBS -framework JavaVM"
  

•          AC_CACHE_CHECK([for JNI_CreateJavaVM in JavaVM framework],
  

•                         [HAS_LIB_JVM],
  

•                         [AC_TRY_LINK([#include <jni.h>],
  

•                            [JNI_CreateJavaVM(0, 0, 0);],
  

•                            HAS_LIB_JVM=yes,
  

•                            HAS_LIB_JVM=no)])
  

•          CFLAGS="$saved_CFLAGS"
  

•       elif test "x$OS_TYPE" = "xUNIX" ; then
  

•          saved_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
  

•          LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$with_jvm_lib"
  

•          AC_CHECK_LIB(jvm,JNI_CreateJavaVM,HAS_LIB_JVM=yes,HAS_LIB_JVM=no,)
  

•          LDFLAGS="$saved_LDFLAGS"
  

•       fi
  

  •    if test "$HAS_LIB_JVM" = "yes"; then
           JVM_LIB="-L$with_jvm_lib -ljvm"
           if test "x$with_jvm_lib_add_rpath" = "xyes"; then
    

  @@ -3718,4 +3781,3 @@ LOC_MSG([ enable pthread support: ${PTHREAD_ENABLED}])
  LOC_MSG([ enable POSIX iconv support:${am_cv_func_iconv}])
  LOC_MSG([ hide internal symbols: ${HAVE_HIDE_INTERNAL_SYMBOLS}])
  LOC_MSG()

  diff --git a/frmts/dods/dodsdataset2.cpp b/frmts/dods/dodsdataset2.cpp
  index 0efa1bb..6f63874 100644
  --- a/frmts/dods/dodsdataset2.cpp
  +++ b/frmts/dods/dodsdataset2.cpp
  @@ -50,13 +50,9 @@
  #include <Sequence.h>
  #include <Grid.h>

-#ifdef LIBDAP_310
/* AISConnect.h/AISConnect class was renamed to Connect.h/Connect in libdap 3.10 */
#include <Connect.h>
#define AISConnect Connect
-#else
-#include <AISConnect.h>
-#endif

#include <DDS.h>
#include <DAS.h>
diff --git a/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dods/ogr_dods.h b/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dods/ogr_dods.h
index 99f269e..ba114a0 100644
--- a/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dods/ogr_dods.h
+++ b/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/dods/ogr_dods.h
@@ -61,13 +61,9 @@
#include <Sequence.h>
#include <Grid.h>

-#ifdef LIBDAP_310
/* AISConnect.h/AISConnect class was renamed to Connect.h/Connect in libdap 3.10 */
#include <Connect.h>
#define AISConnect Connect
-#else
-#include <AISConnect.h>
-#endif

#include <DDS.h>
#include <DAS.h>

The formula was mangled from unexpected markdown. Here it is:
http://pastebin.com/uK6LQpUH

I found a world of pain getting FileGDB to work using ESRI drivers, but the good news is that as of GDAL 1.11 an open driver has been included. So now you can use homebrew to install it.

It currently requires a bit of tweaking, but here's my instructions - takes 5 mins.
http://scottdavey.net/article/Installing-GDAL-1.11-on-OSX-using-Homebrew-227