[Gdal-dev] Compiling ogr/gdal on win32 using MingW

[Mario Beauchamp]

Hi Alessandro and Wei Lee,

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 21:53:11 +0200, Alessandro Amici <alexamici at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

>mingw on windows mostly works. the main problem is that you don't get python support.

It's possible to get Python support under MinGW but it requires some hacking...

>the static library is built out-of-the-box, i'm not sure if the dll is built 
>as well. if not, you certainly can get it to build with a tiny bit of 
>Makefile magic.

You can easily get the dll from the static lib.

>cross-compile from linux (debian with mingw32* packages) is not much harder 
>than native bompile. it has the additional problem that the gdal configure 
>system is not really coss-compile-proof ;). (--without-pg is your friend)

And "--without-libtool" :)

Wei Lee, contact me for more info...
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Mario B.