Error on build: ‘OPTGetProjectionMethods’ was not declared in this scope

[checkplant]

Expected behavior and actual behavior.

Im trying to build/install GDAL using pip and im getting this error:

error: OPTGetProjectionMethods was not declared in this scope; did you mean py_OPTGetProjectionMethods

Steps to reproduce the problem.

Here is my docker File:

# Docker container that installs Python 3.6, GDAL and necessary shippable dependencies for CI
FROM python:3.7-stretch

# Set the working directory to /app
WORKDIR /app

# Copy the current directory contents into the container at /app
COPY . /app

# Update base container install
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get upgrade -y

# Add unstable repo to allow us to access latest GDAL builds
RUN echo deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free >> /etc/apt/sources.list
RUN apt-get update

## Install PostGIS
#RUN apt-get -t unstable install -y postgresql-11-postgis-2.5
#
## Update privs to allow Postgres to run locally
#RUN sed -i "s/local   all             postgres                                peer/local   all             postgres                                trust/" /etc/postgresql/11/main/pg_hba.conf


## Existing binutils causes a dependency conflict, correct version will be installed when GDAL gets intalled
RUN apt-get remove -y binutils
#
## Install GDAL dependencies
RUN apt-get -t unstable install -y libgdal-dev g++
#
## Update C env vars so compiler can find gdal
ENV CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal
ENV C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/gdal
#

## Install CURL certs
RUN apt-get install ca-certificates -y
ENV CURL_CA_BUNDLE=/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

## This will install latest version of GDAL
RUN pip install numpy
RUN pip install GDAL==2.4.4

## Setup default locale
#RUN echo en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 > /etc/locale.gen
#RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8

# Install any needed packages specified in requirements.txt
RUN pip install --trusted-host pypi.python.org -r requirements.txt

# Define environment variable
ENV CELERY_BROKER_URL redis://redis:6379/0
ENV CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND redis://redis:6379/0
ENV C_FORCE_ROOT true

ENV FLASK_CONFIG development
ENV FLASK_ENV development
ENV FLASK_APP app/__init__.py

EXPOSE 8000

CMD ["gunicorn", "wsgi:app", "-b", "0.0.0.0:8000", "-w", "4", "--log-level", "debug"]

GDAL version and provenance

2.4.4

[rouault]

Probably a mismatch between your native GDAL and the python bindings forced at 2.4.4. OPTGetProjectionMethods() has been removed starting with GDAL 3.0, so I presume you got that version as the native lib

[checkplant]

right...do you have any tips on how to fix it?

[tomsaleeba]

You can check the version of your native GDAL that you get from your Docker base image:

$ docker run --rm -it --entrypoint bash python:3.7-stretch -c 'apt update && apt show libgdal-dev'
...
Package: libgdal-dev
Version: 2.1.2+dfsg-5
...

You're trying to install python bindings for GDAL 2.4.4, which doesn't match the native version 2.1.2.

You either need to change the version of your python bindings:

# untested
RUN pip install GDAL==2.1.2

...or change Docker base image to one that can provide GDAL 2.4.4. python:3.7-buster provides 2.4.0 which might work.