[gdal-dev] Small build problem

[Frank Warmerdam]

Ben Discoe wrote:
> 
> I got gdal from cvs and tried to build it on Win32. The library compiled
> nicely, but it snagged on some problem (with the test applications?)
> 
> [...]
> Creating library gdal_i.lib and object gdal_i.exp
> cd apps
> nmake /f makefile.vc
> NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make 'lib\setargv.obj'
> Stop.

Ben,

I imagine you don't have the VCDIR variable set properly in GDAL\nmake.opt.
This tells the system where Visual C++ is found so that it can link against
the wildcard expansion code in $VCDIR/lib/setargv.obj. It may also affect
some other build aspects. 

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