Jeff Larson thejefflarson

Building GDAL 1.9.x with ESRI FileGDB support on OS X Lion

Download the SDK from ESRI's website http://resources.arcgis.com/content/geodatabases/10.0/file-gdb-api
Extract the SDK, and put the contents of the directory in a known location, I used ~/local/filegdb. Here's an example path to one of the files: ~/local/filegdb/lib/libFileGDBAPI.dylib
I use ~/local/filegdb so it can stay isolated in it's own place. You can put it anywhere, but the next few steps might be different.
Go into the directory containing the FileGDB SDK, e.g. ~/local/filegdb
ESRI built these dylib's using @rpath's, so to avoid needing to mess with DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, I updated the @rpath's using install_name_tool. There might be a more elegant way to handle this. If so, comments are welcome!
Here are the commands I used to patch the dylibs, this is not required if you want to use DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH yourself:

	require 'net/http'

	# These links were taken from my twitter timeline. No endorsement implied.
	tiny_urls = {
	'bitly' => ['http://bit.ly/3S9c5K', 'http://developer.nytimes.com/'],
	'j.mp' => ['http://j.mp/JsML0u', 'http://www.npr.org/2012/04/26/151303230/an-african-trader-and-the-perils-of-business-in-china'],
	'tinyurl' => ['http://tinyurl.com/6rq9vob', 'http://politicsoftheplate.com/?p=1283'],
	'owly' => ['http://ow.ly/axesj', 'http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/opera-12-beta-released-new-security-features-including-do-not-track-support-042612'],
	'ht.ly' => ['http://ht.ly/1j7LiX', 'http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-LifeTopStories/~3/8vFV-fFfhAc/1'],
	'is.gd' => ['http://is.gd/gk0FoM', 'http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/04/joe-schmoe-drones/'],

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#

	#!/bin/sh

	##
	# This is a script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# Run in interactive mode with:
	# $ sh -c "$(curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh)"
	#
	# or run it without prompt questions:

	<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
	<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<head>
	<title>Mercator craziness</title>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
	var map;
	var circles = [];

	function degToRad(degrees) {return degrees * Math.PI / 180;}

	// Demonstration of dynamic super() calls.
	// Because of JS reserved words, "ssuper()" is the method name,
	// and is passed the current object, as well as the name of
	// the current method.

	function GreatGrandParent() {};
	GreatGrandParent.prototype.method = function() {
	console.log("In the GreatGrandParent.");
	};

	$ curl -I http://t.co/a87DAaC
	HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
	Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:53:39 GMT
	Server: hi
	Location: http://nyti.ms/p8ZGNT
	Cache-Control: private,max-age=300
	Expires: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:58:39 GMT
	Connection: close
	Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

	MAKEFILE=$(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))

	REMOTE?=$(REMOTE_USER)@$(REMOTE_HOST)
	REMOTE_SSH?=ssh -p $(REMOTE_PORT)
	REMOTE_SHELL?=$(REMOTE_SSH) $(REMOTE) $(REMOTE_LOGIN)
	REMOTE_MAKE?=cat $(MAKEFILE) \| $(REMOTE_SHELL) make -f /dev/stdin -C $(REMOTE_BASE)

	# LOCAL COMMANDS:

	hello: