[geos-devel] geos Help

[Frank Warmerdam]

Elavazhagan.M wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
>             I am currently developing a GDAL/OGR Driver for LAS files 
> and I need to use the GEOS library for spatial indexing support. I am 
> using MS Visual Studio 2005 as the developing environment. I downloaded 
> the *geos-svn.tar.bz2* file* *from “*geos.refractions.net*” and changed 
> *geos_c.h.in* to *geos_c.h* and *version.h.in* to *version.h. *When I 
> built GEOS, I am getting the following error in geos_c.h, while other 
> files build successfully.
> 
>  
> 
> *error C2059: syntax error : '__declspec(dllexport)' d:\geos\capi\geos_c.h*
> 
> * *
> 
> Kindly help me out in resolving this issue. Are there any major changes 
> when I build GEOS with MS Visual Studio?

Elavazhagan,

For reasons not clear to me the gdal-svn.tar.bz2 is aparently not being
updated.  Could you try it with the geos-3.0.0rc2 code from the geos page
instead?  I believe I have had good luck with it on windows.

Best regards,
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