[Gdal-dev] Instructions for Cygwin compile of GDAL

[Norman Vine]

Alessandro Amici writes:
> 
> Norman,
> 
> On Friday 13 April 2007 01:44, Norman Vine wrote:
> > Shouldn't have to change anything
> >
> > To check I just did a fresh Cygwin install and
> >
> > ./configure --with-libtool=no; make; make install
> >
> >   < might work with libtool I don't know I just can't stand the
> >     glacially slow Cygwin compiles with libtool >
> 
> in order to avoid the double compile with libtool you may use 
> the '--disable-static' (tested on unix/linux) or 
> '--disable-shared' (maybe on cygwin, but not tested) options.
> 
> this is not as fast as '--without-libtool', but much, much closer.
> 
> if you test it on cygwin (i don't have a cygwin install at 
> hand, currently), please report back how it goes.

Alessandro

Libtool's 'glacial pace' is due to the many levels of indirection
that it forces.

Cygwin is not Linux.  :-)

Cheers

Norman