[Gdal-dev] GDAL 1.2.0a win32

[Frank Warmerdam]

Frédéric Trastour wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Few comments about Win32 build of 1.2.0a :
> 
> ** When using external tiff and geotiff libraries, these
> libs should be added to the EXTERNAL_LIBS variable in
> nmake.opt :
> 
> EXTERNAL_LIBS = $(OGDILIB) $(XERCES_LIB) $(OCI_LIB) $(PG_LIB) $(ODBCLIB) \
>   $(ECWLIB) $(HDF4_LIB) $(FME_LIB) $(JASPER_LIB) $(MRSID_LIB) \
>   $(FITS_LIB) $(JPEG_LIB) $(PNG_LIB) $(NETCDF_LIB) \
>                 $(GEOTIFF_LIB) $(TIFF_LIB)

Frédéric,

I have added this.  I thought I did it when I add support for external tiff
and geotiff libraries, but apparently I failed to get the part of the change
into CVS.

> A related question, for my own driver, I need to link with some additionnal
> libraries. Actually I add this library to the LINKER_FLAGS variable which
> in under the "## END OF STUFF THAT NORMALLY NEEDS TO BE UPDATED ##" section.
> It should be nice to have a ADD_LIBS variable added to LINKER_FLAGS or
> to EXTERNAL_LIBS when defined.

I have added the ADD_LIBS macro as suggested.

> ** Make clean don't remove all objects files :
> 
> $ nmake /fmakefile.vc clean
>   ...
> $ ls */*.obj
> ogr/ogr_srs_xml.obj  port/cpl_conv.obj

I tried this, but didn't get the same result.  If you can determine why
it is happening on your system let me know.

> ** A question related to tiff and geotiff librairies : is it planned
> to release a version of these librairies corresponding to the 1.2.0
> release of GDAL ?

As Andrey noted it may be a while before the next libtiff release.  I
do plan to release libgeotiff 1.2.2 in next few weeks as I have dumped the
EPSG 6.5 database.  However, it isn't being done particularly to correspond to
the GDAL 1.2.0 release.  The libgeotiff 1.2.1 (and libtiff 3.6.1) should work
pretty well with GDAL.

Best regards,
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