<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:8pt"><div>I have been exploring how to build the new gdal 1.5 release. It turns out it was slightly a pain because I am using VS2005 express which requires some alterations to workaround the ATL. Anyhow, I was able to successfully build the gdal15.dll, but during the installation I got an error from the makefile.vc in the apps folder. <br><br>I have no idea if I am doing any of this correctly. I originally thought I had to use the setup.py build and setup.py install. However, I kept getting errors so I started using the nmake /f makefile.vc in the root directory.<br><br>I am curious about this error because I would like to learn more about how these programs work. And ultimately, I would like to finish building gdal from scratch for the experience.<br><br><br>My question are:<br>First, do the setup.py
and nmake /f makefile.vc do the same thing?<br><br>Second, I looked at the makefile.vc in the apps folder and I did not see anything causing an error to occur. My error was this:<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span>cd apps<br>nmake /nologo /f makefile.vc<br>NMAKE : fatal error U1073: don't know how to make '""'<br>Stop<br><br>Third, the files that were included in the gdal-1.5.0b2 redirected the gdal to osgeo directory. Is it possible to set my path to osgeo rather than being redirected. This might have been resolved if I had been able to complete the build, and therefore, I am not sure what all the output looks like. Sorry for my ignorance, but this is all new to me.<br><br><br>OS: Windows XP Professional x86 processor<br>Compiler: VS2005 Express with modifications to account for atlthunk.lib<br>Python: 2.5<br><br><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br></span></div></div><br>
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