Why GDAL is not build with NetCDF+HDF dependencies?

[joa-quim]

Any particular reason, or just because no one had interest on it so far?

[visr]

There is no proper cross compilation support for those libraries, which is the reason that for instance we haven't been able to get a netCDF build for Windows in a while. See #4511.

There is interest in adding the netCDF drivers to GDAL, see JuliaGeo/GDAL.jl#134. But I'd want to hold off until the issues with netCDF and HDF5 are resolved, since otherwise maintaining a cross platform GDAL build becomes really difficult.

[joa-quim]

Thanks. I've build GDAL with the HDF+netCDF versions mentioned in #4511 but with VisualStudio. Have not tried that build yet. I'll try to try them next week if time allows.

[ViralBShah]

HDF5 cross compilation woes: #567