[Gdal-dev] gdal_translate

[Ayman Kamal]

OK 
I will go with ur choice and use GDLA as DLL,
can you tell me plz what are the names of the DLLs
that I have to reference in my application and what
are the header files to put in my application?

My application needs only to open a GeoTiff file and
save it as BMP.

--- Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Ayman Kamal wrote:
> > I want to use it as a statically linked library.
> > Can you give me more explanation building apon
> this
> > fact?
> 
> Ayman,
> 
> Since the 1.1.8 release I have added a "devinstall"
> target to the makefile.vc.
> This will copy all include files and the gdal_i.lib
> stub library to a target
> location specified in nmake.opt.
> 
> However, if you want to link against static
> libraries instead of the stub
> library for use of the DLL things are substantially
> more complicated.  I
> think you would need the following directories in
> your include path:
> 
>   $(GDAL_HOME)\port
>   $(GDAL_HOME)\core
>   $(GDAL_HOME)\ogr
> 
> You will need to link against the following library
> files:
>   $(GDAL_HOME)\gdal.lib
>   $(GDAL_HOME)\port\cpl.lib
>   $(GDAL_HOME)\ogr\ogr.lib
> 
> If you are building a Visual Studio project you will
> also need to ensure
> that you use compatible compile options for the GDAL
> static libraries and
> your project.  It is likely best to modify the
> OPTFLAGS macro in the nmake.opt
> file to match your visual studio project and rebuild
> GDAL.
> 
> I would stess though, that using the DLL is the
> preferred mechanism for using
> GDAL.  It is easier to build.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
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