[Liblas-devel] Why las2ogr based on OGR C API?

[martin User]


> >
> > It was including OGR private headers <ogr_p.h> causing it to not 
> > compile when --with-gdal was specified. OGR's C++ API is kind of a 
> > mess when it comes to installation and I think most folks who use 
> > the OGR C++ API do static linking.
> 
> OK, the linking reason makes sense to me.
> So, let's move to C API.
> 

C++ Portability Guide
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/C%2B%2B_Portability_Guide



Regards.