[Gdal-dev] Building DLL's on Windows

[Ari Jolma]

Frank Warmerdam kirjoitti:
> Ari,
> 
> My suggestion would be to use VC++ or MINGW to build your DLL.  Cygwin's
> gcc includes funky dependencies on a cygwin DLL that *might* not play well
> with non-cygwin components.


libral uses variable length macros, which is AFAIK not in VC++, so MINGW
is the 2nd choice then. I looked at it and installed it but the docs did
not look very good for developing DLL's. Is there somewhere a simple
example (a Makefile or something) of creating a DLL with MinGW?

Thanks

Ari


> 
> You may need a customized approach to configuration instead of using
> configure, or you may be able to use cygwin configuration with mingw with
> appropriate configurations.
> 
> Best regards,


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