[Gdal-dev] Compile GDAL with VS2005 (BuildKit Source Code)

[Howard Butler]

At 03:36 PM 6/14/2006, Zhonghai Wang wrote:
>Hi Howard,
>
>thanks you so much for the important HINTS.
>
>so you mean that I must compile all the needed libraries in the 
>BuildKit package myself with VS2005? Is this compilation guide still 
>valid for the whole compilation? 
><http://www.nabble.com/Windows-build-kit-for-MSVC-7.1-t1143108.html#a2997024>http://www.nabble.com/Windows-build-kit-for-MSVC-7.1-t1143108.html#a2997024  
> >http://www.nabble.com/Windows-build-kit-for-MSVC-7.1-t1143108.html#a2997024.

It would still be valid if all of the support libs that you need are 
also compiled with VS2005.  This can be a challenging and frustrating 
task, and it is one of the major reasons why I made the buildkit in 
the first place.


>so the steps may be:
>1. compile the required libraries for GDAL (according to the 
>component that I need)
>2. compile GDAL
>3. compile the required libraries for MapServer
>4. compile MapServer

yep.


>and here is the last question^_^:
>what does the command "nmake /f <http://makefile.vc>makefile.vc 
>install" mean? for this command which parameters in the nmake.opt 
>file should be set correctly?

for both GDAL and MapServer, this command just copies the things 
you'll want to use (.exe's, .dlls, etc) into a common directory 
(..\bin, I think).  It doesn't do anything fancier than that.

Howard