[Gdal-dev] Building on Windows

[Frank Warmerdam]

Matt Hanson wrote:
> Norman, thanks.   I think I did the right thing. cpl_config is automatically generated so I thought I needed to change the defines (HAVE_VPRINTF, HAVE_VSNPRINTF, and HAVE_SNPRINTF) to 0's in cpl_config.h.vc.  I don't understand why these functions aren't defined in the MSVC compilers but whatever.
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> Things compiled find but then got a linking error, anyone come across this?
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> ogrsf_frmts.lib(parsexsd.obj) : warning LNK4221: no public symbols found; archive member will be inaccessible
> link /dll /debug /INCLUDE:_OGRFeatureStylePuller  /INCLUDE:_OSRValidate  /INCLUDE:_OPTGetProjectionMethods  /INCLUDE:_OGR_G_GetPointCount  /INCLUDE:_OGRRegisterAll /INCLUDE:_GDALSimpleImageWarp at 36  /INCLUDE:_GDALReprojectImage at 48  /INCLUDE:_GDALComputeMedianCutPCT at 32  /INCLUDE:_GDALDitherRGB2PCT at 28  /INCLUDE:_vbSafeArrayToPtr at 16  /INCLUDE:_OCTNewCoordinateTransformation at 8 port\*.obj gcore\*.obj alg\*.obj frmts\o\*.obj ogr\ogrsf_frmts\ogrsf_frmts.lib ogr\ogr.lib vb6\vb6_support.obj      odbc32.lib                         gcore\Version.res  /out:gdal13.dll /implib:gdal_i.lib 
> /usr/bin/link: too many arguments
> Try `/usr/bin/link --help' for more information.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\cygwin\bin\link.EXE' : return code '0x1'
> Stop.
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Matt,

I have found myself having to hide the Cygwin /usr/bin/link.exe on some
of my systems to ensure that the Visual Studio link.exe gets used.  Try:

   mv /usr/bin/link.exe /usr/bin/link_hidden.exe

Best regards,

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