[Gdal-dev] Compling GDAL 1.3.1 in MinGW

[Pete Nagy]

What I should have said is that I did a MinGW build using cygwin bash
shells, instead of the MSYS shell, by following the recommendations to
simply put the mingw compiler first in the path.

-> Pete


> On 12/9/05, Mike Leahy <mgleahy at golden.net> wrote:
> > Frank,
> >
> > Thanks - that did the trick.
> >
> > This leads me to a more general question: would I be better off if I
> > were to use Cygwin instead of MinGW/MSYS for compiling code on Win32?
> > It's been a while for me, but I seem to recall that Cygwin uses bash...
>
> Mike,
>
> The cygwin build case has some quirks as well, but at least
> it should work out of the box for simple configurations.  One
> of the messy things (I think) about the cygwin builds is that
> it is very hard to add close source external libraries.
>
> Best regards,
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