[Gdal-dev] Proposal for Unified Windows Binaries

[Frank Warmerdam]

Howard Butler wrote:
> I think an "official" Windows GDAL release should have the following 
> traits:
> - All optional drivers built as plugins and all other drivers built in
> - No scripting bindings
> - No Python utilities
> - Include the .lib files

Howard,

Presumably it would also include the include files?  By .lib files to you
just mean the stub library for the DLL or static libraries as well?  I'd
rather avoid static libraries which are much harder to arrange on windows
when there are dependencies, and where are very sensitive to difference in
compiler version, and build options.  The C API used from a DLL should be
fairly save across compiler versions and mixes of build options.

So where do we go from here?  Should we get Mateusz to prepare initial
binaries for 1.4.1 based on the suggested pattern?

Best regards,
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