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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mike,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I’m getting the MinGW environment because it’s the only way to obtain an up-to-date version of GNU Wget on Windows. The GnuWin32 project is only providing out-of-date binaries with security vulnerabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If I can build liblas with it, I can get rid of Visual Studio. I’ve got a pretty resource-constrained machine and VS is injecting unwanted debugging behaviors into Windows that I don’t want and don’t understand how to disable.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If I can’t build liblas with it, I don’t want to waste my time or anyone else’s trying to make it work on MinGW, and I’ll keep going as is. I have a working VS build, so this is not an urgent request by any means. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-- Will<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH [mailto:michael.smith@usace.army.mil] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:33 PM<br><b>To:</b> Angley, William [USA]; Liblas-devel@lists.osgeo.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Liblas-devel] Building under MinGW on Windows<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Will,<br><br>Any particular reason to build under MinGW as opposed to using Visual C++?<br><br>Mike<br><br><br>-- <br>Michael Smith<br>Remote Sensing/GIS Center<br>US Army Corps of Engineers<br>Hanover, NH<br><br><br><br>On 12/8/10 12:29 PM, "Angley, William [USA]" <<a href="angley_william@bah.com">angley_william@bah.com</a>> wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Hi liblas developers,<br> <br>I’m going to be getting a MinGW environment set up on my computer shortly and will probably try to build liblas with it sooner or later. Has anyone tried this before, and if so, how did it work out?<br> <br>The official liblas.org instructions assume that you’re building with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler if you’re on Windows, and don’t seem to speak to MinGW one way or the other.<br> <br>Thanks,<br> <br>-- Will<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium","sans-serif"'><br>William Angley III<br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"'>Sr. Consultant<br>Booz Allen Hamilton<br>575 Herndon Parkway<br>Herndon, VA 20170<br>Tel. (703) 377-9104<br><a href="angley_william@bah.com">angley_william@bah.com</a><br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><hr size=3 width="95%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Consolas'>_______________________________________________<br>Liblas-devel mailing list<br><a href="Liblas-devel@lists.osgeo.org">Liblas-devel@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/liblas-devel">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/liblas-devel</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>