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34367	GIS GDAL install on Windows 11 Instructions Issue	Heath Henley	Heath Henley	"I had to make a couple minor changes to the instructions from the docs after installing the OSGEO4W GIS tools on Windows 11 from (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/). I'm using Django 4.1.7 and Python 3.10.2.

https://github.com/django/django/compare/main...heathhenley:django:patch-1
The GDAL data directory is different. I'm pretty sure I'm running the 64 bit version of everything, but there was not a 64 suffix in my OSGEO4W dir. I didn't see an option anywhere to choose, so I assume it would default to 64 bit. 

I think I only had to add the explicit GDAL_LIBRARY_PATH to point to gdal306.dll because it was only looking for up to gdal304.dll on my system. I see it was added in: https://github.com/django/django/commit/ecbb5db65dce7193a941b117cdd33839e5536b2e so that part is probably not necessary in the next version. 

Happy to clean up and PR some version of the doc change above,  if it's not just a me problem (eg did I somehow install a 32 bit version?). After installing OSGEO4W and setting the env vars / registry keys, the shortest case to reproduce was just trying `py -c ""from django.contrib.gis.db import models""` (but for me required renaming gdal306 to gdal304 to test). "	Cleanup/optimization	closed	Documentation	4.1	Normal	fixed		David Smith Sarah Boyce	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0