[gdal-dev] MinGW build

[Ari Jolma]

On 10/05/2012 06:57 PM, Even Rouault wrote:
> Selon Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com>:
>
>> Folks
>>
>> I'm building GDAL (the trunk) in latest MinGW. For some reason I don't
>> understand I need to add -lstdc++ to LDFLAGS in GDALmake.opt. I'm not
>> sure if this is the best way to fix the problem - probably not - but it
>> works. The problem is the step where the library file libgdal.dll.a is made.
>>
>> Anybody have any ideas why this is like this?
> And is it specific to trunk (meaning does it work with 1.9 without adding
> -lstdc++) ?

I don't know. I haven't been building with MinGW for a long time and it's
starting to look that this time was a mistake too. I got libgdal.dll
compiled
but the Perl bindings seem even harder (the bindings dll does not load).
While MinGW and MSYS seem to be improved, it still is a horror.

Ari

>  It's interesting since someone reported a few days/weeks ago a
> similar problem with CentOS I believe. I haven't in mind a change that would
> have directly targetted changing libstdc++ linking, but it is probably a
> side-effect of something else. Might depend on which external libs are linked
> too : perhaps some indirectly bring libstdc++ dependency, and when they are not
> linked in, it isn't found
>
>