[pdal] Help with building PDAL on Windows 7

[Howard Butler]

Robert,

Thanks for slugging through. The windows build documents are indeed not very up-to-date.

The way that Brad Chambers and I are trying to stand up is based on the OSGeo4W64 stack. We have produced OSGeo4W64 packages for almost all of the prerequisites (boost, PCL, zlib, GDAL, hexer, points2grid, laszip). There are a few gotchas though.

* PDAL only really supports MSVC2012+, and even then it's probably 2013+ most of the time. PDAL is C++11, and 2010 isn't going to cut it. Brad has a 2012 system that he has been using to out and fixing up PDAL issues, but those efforts tend to lag quite a bit. 2013 is going to be the best/easiest way to get somewhere.
* There's some CMake magic to tell find_package(boost) to use libraries built with different runtimes (the boost in OSGeo4W64 is built with 2012, and I've been building with 2013). I have that config in my local tree but not pushed up to github. I will do so today.
* Nothing has really been tested on Windows.
* My windows build config will be in cmake/examples/hobu-windows.bat

http://www.pdal.io/vagrant.html will get you a "working PDAL" without much effort on linux if you want to take that route to just test something.

Hope this helps,

Howard


> On Nov 14, 2014, at 10:06 AM, Brutovski, Robert - Exelis <Robert.Brutovski at exelisinc.com> wrote:
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> From: Brutovski, Robert - Exelis 
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 9:51 AM
> To: 'pdal at lists.osgeo.org'
> Subject: Help with building PDAL on Windows 7
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> PDAL members,
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> I’ve been working my way through the “Building Under Windows” directions found here:http://www.pdal.io/compilation/windows.html#prerequisites.
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> I believe I have all the prerequisites installed and am trying to compile PDAL with Visual Studio 2010 (SP1). There seems to be a problem finding some of the required libraries. Any thoughts?
>  
> Also, the advanced directions reference a “config.bat” file, which I don’t see in the repository. Instead, I’m using the cmake/examples/mpg-config.bat file, which is specified earlier in the instructions. Does that sound reasonable?
>  
> Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
>  
> Rob
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> -- Boost version: 1.57.0
> -- Found the following Boost libraries:
> --   program_options
> --   thread
> --   iostreams
> --   filesystem
> --   system
> --   unit_test_framework
> --   random
> -- Searching for GDAL 1.9.0+ library
> -- ...building with GDAL
> -- Could not find GEOS
> -- Searching for GeoTIFF 1.3.0+ library
> -- Found GeoTIFF version: 1.3.0
> -- Could NOT find ZLIB (missing:  ZLIB_LIBRARY ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR)
> -- Could NOT find PythonInterp (missing:  PYTHON_EXECUTABLE)
> -- Could NOT find PythonLibs (missing:  PYTHON_LIBRARIES PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIRS) (R
> equired is at least version "2.4")
> -- Could NOT find LibXml2 (missing:  LIBXML2_LIBRARIES LIBXML2_INCLUDE_DIR)
> -- Building with PDAL unit tests
> -- Using boost lib: C:/boost_1_57_0/stage/lib/libboost_program_options-vc100-mt-
> gd-1_57.lib;C:/boost_1_57_0/stage/lib/libboost_thread-vc100-mt-gd-1_57.lib;C:/bo
> ost_1_57_0/stage/lib/libboost_iostreams-vc100-mt-gd-1_57.lib;C:/boost_1_57_0/sta
> ge/lib/libboost_filesystem-vc100-mt-gd-1_57.lib;C:/boost_1_57_0/stage/lib/libboo
> st_system-vc100-mt-gd-1_57.lib;C:/boost_1_57_0/stage/lib/libboost_unit_test_fram
> ework-vc100-mt-gd-1_57.lib;C:/boost_1_57_0/stage/lib/libboost_random-vc100-mt-gd
> -1_57.lib
> -- Found ORACLE: C:/OSGeo4W/lib/oci.lib
> -- Building with Oracle support
> -- Could NOT find PostgreSQL (missing:  POSTGRESQL_INCLUDE_DIR POSTGRESQL_LIBRAR
> IES)
> -- Building without PgPointCloud support
> -- Configuring done
> -- Generating done
>  
>  
> In C:\OSGeo4W\lib, I do have a “zlib.lib” file. In C:\OSGeo4W\include, I do have a “zlib.h” file. There is also a “zlib1.dll” in C:\OSGeo4W\bin.
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