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

[Woon Wei Lee]

Thanks for the tips... 
I can't use the pre-built binaries because I made some modifications to the mitab source 
which i need in order for my application to work. (it already works on linux but now i 
want to create a windows version)

Sorry, feeling really ignorant here but I don't quite get what u mean by running 
./configure on windows... afaik configure is a bourne shell script so it won't work on 
windows (unless I use cygwin, but I'm really trying to avoid that - would rather use 
mingw if possible) ... I hope I'm missing something really obvious here...  :-(

Cheers
Wei Lee



On 13 Jul 2004 at 21:53, Alessandro Amici wrote:

> 
> Wei Lee,
> 
> On Tuesday 13 July 2004 17:22, Woon Wei Lee wrote:
> > Has anyone tried compiling gdal on win32 using mingw (or perhaps
> > cross-compiling from linux)??
> 
> mingw on windows mostly works. the main problem is that you don't get
> python support.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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)
> 
> search the mail archives you should find more info.
> 
> > I'm not even sure how to get started! ;-( 
> 
> as a start:
> in the msys environment run "./configure" ;)
> 
> cheers,
> alessandro
>