[gdal-dev] Re: Portability library

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
> Frank,
> 
> I have modified my OWT lib to make use of the new portability library,
> and by the same way had to make a couple of changes to compile under
> MSVC++:
> 
> (For now I used the symbol WIN32 to tell which platform we are on. i.e.
> #ifdef WIN32 ...)
> 
> - Replaced str*casecmp() with str*icmp() for WIN32
> 
> - Avoid including <unistd.h> under WIN32
> 
> And I also added 3 more functions to manipulate stringlists with
> Name=Value pairs.
> 
> Finally, I checked in my changes remotely and it worked very well.
> (Yep! I did my checkin just a couple of minutes before going away for
> the weekend... some things never change ;)
> 
> Anyways, I think that's a good start for the portability library!

Daniel,

Excellent!

I haven't really thought too much about approaches to portability, or how
to do builds on Unix, and Windows. I am thinking of depending on the 
Cygwin user environment for Windows (includes bash, gnumake, cp, ...) 
and to allow use of VC++, and gcc on Windows as target compilers. I want
to avoid the PCI approach of a #define'ed macro for each supported 
configuration. I would like to learn more about the autoconf, and so
forth when possible. 

Later,

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