[pdal] vcomp100.dll missing?

[Mike Alonzo]

Cool. I've got it up and running now. Seemed to be easier for me to setup
on a linux instance than on my windows instance (but I may have just become
slightly more adroit by the second go-around).

Thanks!

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

>
> > On Nov 26, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Mike Alonzo <mikealonzo47 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > I certainly see the appeal of Docker. However, as far as I can tell, I
> cannot run it on an Amazon instance (doesn't support virtualization since
> it itself is virtual, or something like that).
>
> Docker runs great in AWS. They have an entire service dedicated to it
> called ECS [1], and PDAL reads and writes to S3 if you have libcurl headers
> around when it is compiled. You can choose to use ECS or roll your own.
> We've had lots of success running PDAL with both.
>
> The PDAL build on OSGeo4W64 should probably be removed. It is extremely
> out of date and have not been kept up with OSGeo4W changes. Indeed if you
> want to simply use the PDAL command line apps [2], the fastest and least
> painful way to achieve that on windows is with Docker [3]. A full-featured
> Windows build is not available as a pre-built Windows binary, and as others
> have documented on the mailing list, there is some effort in that area, but
> nothing so organized as to provide an installer and support for it. PDAL is
> built and tested frequently on Windows by the continuous integration
> system, and most things should work for those capable of compiling things
> themselves.
>
> A nicely integrated Windows install, based on OSGeo4W64 or otherwise, is a
> lot of work to start and even more constant resource drag to maintain. It
> needs contribution to make it happen, and it requires enough specialized
> experience and skill. A bunch of pieces are there, but there is still
> plenty to do to complete the integration.
>
> [1] https://aws.amazon.com/ecs/
> [2] http://www.pdal.io/apps/index.html
> [3] http://www.pdal.io/quickstart.html
>
>
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