<div>Hi all,</div>
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<div>I am really struggling to set up liblas to use for my development in <a href="http://vb.net">vb.net</a>.</div>
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<div>Has anyone here setup liblas correctly for <a href="http://vb.net">vb.net</a>(express) and can that person give me some clear instructions? </div>
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<div>I have downloaded liblas from <a href="http://liblas.org/download.html">http://liblas.org/download.html</a></div>
<div>Also download and installed OSGeo4W.</div>
<div>Also downloaded and installed cmake make_gui.</div>
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<div>Normally I can easily follow installation instructions (<a href="http://liblas.org/tutorial/vbnet.html">http://liblas.org/tutorial/vbnet.html</a> , <a href="http://liblas.org/compilation.html#using-visual-studio-9-2008-on-windows">http://liblas.org/compilation.html#using-visual-studio-9-2008-on-windows</a>), I write a whole lot of tools and programs in <a href="http://vb.net">vb.net</a> without any use of a manual, have 10 years+ experience in programming in a professional environment (vb +vb.express), but this liblas setup only is really giving me a headache, I must have tried at least 6 times during the last couple of weeks, without success.</div>
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<div>Part of the problem is that I (and that may sounds stupid to some of you guys) don't know what I am actually doing during this complex installation. </div>
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<div>I think I am just setting up a reference or link to the liblas.dll to be able to use the instructions compiled in the DLL. I have done that so often with other DLL's, easy, 1 minute job and I am programming. <em>Imports LibLAS</em>, done?<br>
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<div>But now I have to install cmake (done, but what is the reason for this?), install OSGeo4W (done, and I have installed the full set, but why?), run a command prompt from <a href="http://vb.net">vb.net</a> (done) but then it doesn't work anymore for me. cmake doesn't find the files it needs, <a href="http://vb.net">vb.net</a> doesn't load the dll, I am not sure how to continue, probably because I don't quite understand the need of all these extra tools to 'set up a reference'...</div>
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<div>Can't I just create a simple reference to the DLL and start programming?</div>
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<div>Has anyone here setup liblas correctly for <a href="http://vb.net">vb.net</a>(express) and can you give me some clear insructions? That would be very much appreciated.</div>
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<div>Lewis.</div>