Install GDAL on macOS
Stacked to install GDAL on macOS? Yes, I did. Now it’s extreamly simple.
I used to stack install GDAL on macOS. Looked for third party installers or use QGIS environment. Now they provide official installer via pip! We can setup with pip and homebrew.
Enviroment
- OS: Mac OSX Catalina
- GDAL: 3.3.0
- Python: 3.3.6
- Homebrew: 3.1.12
- pip: 21.1.2
How to install
Excute these commands one by one. They emit a thousands of logs, just continue.
brew install gdal
pip download GDAL
tar -xpzf GDAL-<version of GDAL>.tar.gz
cd GDAL-<version of GDAL>
python setup.py build_ext --gdal-config /usr/local/Cellar/gdal/<version of GDAL>/bin/gdal-config
python setup.py build
python setup.py install
If you are not sure which version of GDAL you downloaded, execute ls /usr/local/Cellar/gdal/ and you will find it.
Let’s check it out
When you got the response of their virsion, they are all installed parfectly.
GDAL
gdalinfo --version
gdal_merge.py --version
Python bindings
>>> from osgeo import gdal
>>> gdal.VersionInfo()
