[gdal-dev] What is the difference between gdal.lib and gdal.i.lib ?

Frank Warmerdam warmerdam at pobox.com
Tue May 14 11:08:38 PDT 2013


Mihaela,

gdal.i.lib is a stub library wrapping the GDAL DLL.  Link against
gdal.i.lib if you want to use the DLL.

gdal.lib is a static library with everything in it.  Link against this if
you want to avoid using the GDAL DLL.

Best regards,
Frank



On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Mihaela Gaspar <
mihaela.gaspar at urbanrobotics.net> wrote:

> The devinstall option copies gdal.i.lib into the target library
> installation folder.
> I see another lib file created, gdal.lib
> What is the difference between them ?
> I I link statically, do I use gdal.i.lib ?
> Thank you.
>
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