Re: Trouble building GDAL 3.12.3 on Linux

Hi Carl,

The actual build command from the failing step might be helpful.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2026 at 11:33 AM Carl Godkin via gdal-dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm updating our GDAL and other third party libraries.  I'm usually pretty adept at this but I am having a problem building GDAL 3.12.3 on Linux RHEL8 with GCC 13.2.
>
> The shared library builds okay, but once we get to the apps, I am getting undefined references to two PROJ functions (proj_coordinate_metadata_create & proj_crs_has_point_motion_operation).
>
> I was struggling with this last Friday with PROJ 9.8.0 but, after this weekend's advice about ETRS89, I switched to PROJ 9.7.1 where I'm having the same problem.
>
> I haven't seen any similar questions go by and I am stuck.  Any advice?
>
> My GDAL 3.12.3 cmake command looks like this:
>
>  cmake \
>    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
>    -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/local/gcc132/bin/gcc \
>    -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/local/gcc132/bin/g++ \
>    -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON \
>    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/devlibs/gdal-3.12.3 \
>    -DBUILD_JAVA_BINDINGS:BOOL=OFF \
>    -DSQLite3_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/sqlite-3.51.3/include \
>    -DSQLite3_LIBRARY=/usr/local/devlibs/sqlite-3.51.3/lib/libsqlite3.so \
>    -DARCHIVE_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/libarchive-3.8.6/include \
>    -DARCHIVE_LIBRARY=/usr/local/devlibs/libarchive-3.8.6/lib64/libarchive.so \
>    -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/curl-8.4.0/include \
>    -DCURL_LIBRARY_RELEASE=/usr/local/devlibs/curl-8.4.0/lib64/libcurl.so \
>    -DPROJ_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/proj-9.7.1/include \
>    -DPROJ_LIBRARY_RELEASE=/usr/local/devlibs/proj-9.7.1/lib64/libproj.so \
>    -DGDAL_USE_GEOTIFF_INTERNAL:BOOL=ON \
>    -DGDAL_USE_WEBP_INTERNAL:BOOL=ON \
>    -DMRSID_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/devlibs/MrSID_DSDK-9.5.4.4709-rhel6.x86-64.gcc531/Raster_DSDK/include \
>    -DMRSID_LIBRARY=/usr/local/devlibs/MrSID_DSDK-9.5.4.4709-rhel6.x86-64.gcc531/Raster_DSDK/lib/libltidsdk.so \
>    -DGDAL_ENABLE_DRIVER_JP2MRSID=ON \
>    ..
>
> and my PROJ 9.7.0 is pretty basic, and looks like this:
>
>    cmake \
>    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
>    -Wno-dev -Wno-deprecated \
>    -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/local/gcc132/bin/gcc \
>    -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/local/gcc132/bin/g++ \
>    -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON \
>    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/devlibs/proj-9.7.1 \
>    ..
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> carl
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