GDAL Pascal bindings
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Almost a year ago, I was involved in a project that is now almost dead. It was notable not only for its ideas, but also for the fact that its main development tool was Delphi. In my opinion, this was not the best choice: if you need ObjectPascal so much, you should use FreePascal, which supports 64-bit and is cross-platform, open, and free. But that’s not the point.
The GDAL library was supposed to be used to work with vector and raster data, but… As it turned out, there are no bindings for Pascal. There are bindings for Python, R, Perl, PHP and a few others, but not for Pascal. Well, there is a ticket in trac from 4 years ago, but the solution proposed there is basically a hack, because it requires changes in the GDAL code and a custom GDAL build. We had to do something… So I remembered my youth, remembered how I used to code in Pascal and tried to make a wrapper for the library.
I tried to keep the code compatible with both FreePascal and Delphi. Unfortunately, for various reasons, I did not manage to create a complete wrapper. Maybe when I have the time and resources, I will slowly add the missing bits. In the meantime, I have decided to publish the current implementation on GitHub. I hope someone will find it useful.