<br><font size=2><tt>> I realize that not everyone can afford (or chooses)
to buy MS VC++, <br>
> but I think<br>
> you are buying yourself alot of headaches to try and build OpenEV
and all<br>
> its dependencies from scratch with MingW or any other compiler. Building<br>
> GDAL shouldn't be too hard.<br>
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<br><font size=2><tt>I've heard, and learned from experience, that compiling
Openev on any platform is not for the faint of heart! Keep us updated
on your success / failure with doing this, particularly with MingW.</tt></font>