burst2safe on Windows 10

[joaocarr]

Hi,

This is a follow-up to a post in another discussion entry. Quick question:

Is anyone using burst2safe on Windows 10 without any problem?

For some time, I'm getting the following error:

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_gdal'

burst2safe works well on Linux, so I'm assuming it's something related to Windows.

Thanks

[joaocarr]

Ok, so after many iterations and attempts, I managed to have burst2safe installed and running on my Windows 10 machine. Below, you'll find a step-by-step guide in case anyone faces the same problem. This assumes burst2safe installed on C:\Dev\conda_envs\b2safe

1. Clean previous environment

conda deactivate
rmdir /s /q C:\Dev\conda_envs\b2safe

2. Create a minimal conda environment

conda create -p C:\Dev\conda_envs\b2safe python=3.11 pip -y
conda activate C:\Dev\conda_envs\b2safe

3. Install GDAL via precompiled Windows wheel

Download GDAL wheel for Python 3.11 64-bit from Christoph Gohlke’s site

Example: GDAL‑3.6.4‑cp311‑cp311‑win_amd64.whl

Install it:

pip install C:\path\to\GDAL-3.6.4-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl

This ensures all GDAL DLLs are present; _gdal error is avoided.

4. Install other required packages from conda-forge

conda install -c conda-forge shapely=2.1.1 numpy lxml tifffile=2022.8.12 dateparser!=1.1.0 aiohttp=3.8.5 -y

These are packages compatible with GDAL and Python 3.11.

5. Install pip-only packages

pip install burst2safe asf_search

If behind a proxy, use:

pip install burst2safe asf_search --proxy http://username:password@proxy:port

6. Test GDAL

python -c "from osgeo import gdal; print(gdal.version)"

Should print 3.6.4 with no _gdal errors.

7. Run burst2safe

burst2safe --help