Can I create a C# bindings using .Net while building a static gdal Library in MacOS

[huzaifacontour]

Expected behavior and actual behavior.

Gdal should build c# bindings with static libs also.
It's because of this line of code in gdal.cmake file,
if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
add_subdirectory(swig)
endif ()
Can you explain the reason of it? It should be in the doc also.

Steps to reproduce the problem.

Build Gdal with BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF

Operating system

Darwin - 22.6.0 - arm64

GDAL version and provenance

Configuring GDAL 3.7.2 with cmake 28.0-rc3

[rouault]

Can you explain the reason of it? It should be in the doc also.

see #8637

[huzaifacontour]

So is there anyway to use the static GDAL in csharp projects?

[rouault]

So is there anyway to use the static GDAL in csharp projects?

no, I don't thin so. you could try to remove the if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS) , but I suspect that won't work. That might build, perhaps, but weird things could happen at runtime

[huzaifacontour]

Okay thankyou, I think now only solution for this is to go for the dynamic libs.