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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi Ari,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>sorry for the late (incredibly busy in these days);</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I tried with your suggestion, but it doesn't work at all!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>looking in config-status I found errors after line command</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>g++ [...] conftest.exe -I/lusr/local/include -L/usr/local/bin -lexpat conftest.cpp</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>dunno why!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>I abandoned the will of adding expat support in gdal!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>thanks anyway</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marco</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Da:</B> Ari Jolma [mailto:ari.jolma@tkk.fi]<BR><B>Inviato:</B> mer 20/02/2008 15.57<BR><B>A:</B> marco.pasetti@alice.it<BR><B>Cc:</B> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<BR><B>Oggetto:</B> Re: [gdal-dev] Expat support on MinGW/MSYS<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>marco.pasetti@alice.it kirjoitti:<BR>> Hi,<BR>> <BR>> I'm building GDAL 1.5.0 on Windows (XP SP2) using MSYS/MinGW environment;<BR>> I built Expat 2.0.1, but I cannot configure GDAL with Expat support.<BR>> I followed the BuildingWithMinGW Wiki (using pexports, libtool and<BR>> perl commands), but it continues to find includes but not libraries!<BR><BR>Something's definitely not correct. I'm using the trunk version and I<BR>get configure to find expat.h from c:\mingw\include and expat.dll.a<BR>(which is created with pexports and libtool and the small perl utility)<BR>from c:\mingw\lib with:<BR><BR>1) adding LIBS="$LIBS -lexpat" to configure (lines 23783 and 23787)<BR><BR>and<BR><BR>2) calling configure with<BR><BR>--with-expat=yes --with-expat-inc=/c/mingw/include<BR>--with-expat-lib=-L/c/mingw/lib<BR><BR>Note the value for --with-expat-lib. It seems to be required although<BR>the directory is known by the linker by default.<BR><BR>Regards,<BR><BR>Ari<BR><BR>> <BR>> Someone could help me please?<BR>> What happen if I disable Expat support?<BR>> <BR>> Thanks for support,<BR>> <BR>> Marco<BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> gdal-dev mailing list<BR>> gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org<BR>> <A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev</A><BR><BR><BR>--<BR>Prof. Ari Jolma<BR>Geoinformatiikka / Geoinformatics<BR>Teknillinen Korkeakoulu / Helsinki University of Technology<BR>tel: +358 9 451 3886 address: POBox 1200, 02015 TKK, Finland<BR>Email: ari.jolma at tkk.fi URL: <A href="http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma">http://www.tkk.fi/~jolma</A><BR><BR><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>