[Gdal-dev] Proposal for Unified Windows Binaries

[Mateusz Loskot]

Ari Jolma wrote:
> Mateusz Loskot kirjoitti:
>> David Elías Flores Escalante wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all, how about a version for mingw c++ compilers, it costs
>>> $0.00 is there a gdal for those compilers??
>>> 
>> 
>> David,
>> 
>> AFAIK, MinGW is not officially supported but it's usable after some
>>  small hacks in makefiles, ask Norman Vine he is the MinGW guru
>> here :-)
>> 
> 
> GDAL configures and compiles without any problems under MSYS + MinGW
> - but you need to use the latest binutils (see my notes and links at 
> http://geoinformatics.tkk.fi/twiki/bin/view/Main/InstallingWithMinGW#GDAL).
> 
Ari,

Do you mind if I'd put your notes to the Wiki?

> However, I haven't so far been able to compile (Perl) bindings with 
> MinGW against binary GDAL compiled with VC7.1.

There is a chance to change this situation, because as you can read
here: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/100
with GDAL 1.5.0 is going to be "officially" supported :-)

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
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