[Gdal-dev] mingw build

[Eric Sokolowsky]

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Pete Nagy wrote:

>
> I'm trying to build gdal using mingw and cygwin on windows, but I get a
> configure error:
>
> checking where python Makefiles are... found
> checking Python makefile... C:\Python24/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile
> missing, python disabled.
>
> I try to use prebuilt windows binaries whenever possible, and did not
> build python myself.  Does anyone have any hints on getting gdal to
> build with the least amount of effort?  If I just download the python
> source and find this Makefile that gdal seems to be looking for, would
> this be sufficient?

If you don't require python, just use --without-python as an option
to configure. I do this for my builds on Linux, because we don't need
to use gdal from python.