[Liblas-devel] Building .NET bindings
Martin Rodriguez
mrodriguez at stereocarto.com
Thu Oct 9 06:44:19 EDT 2008
Ok. Thanks mateus. This night i read this mail carefully.
Now i can´t because I am working.
Regards.
-----Mensaje original-----
De: liblas-devel-bounces at mail.hobu.net
[mailto:liblas-devel-bounces at mail.hobu.net] En nombre de Mateusz Loskot
Enviado el: Thursday, October 09, 2008 12:06 PM
Para: Martin Vales
CC: liblas-devel at mail.hobu.net
Asunto: Re: [Liblas-devel] Building .NET bindings
Martin Vales pisze:
> 2008/10/8 Mateusz Łoskot <mateusz at loskot.net>
>>
>> I can't find any instructions on the Wiki or README file in the source
tree
>> about how to build .NET bindings.
>
> Yes you are right. I need ad support for build the bindings.
Configuration for NMAKE and ./configure is needed but that can be done
later. First, users need to have step by step instructions about how to
build the bindings.
>> Could you please give me the list of steps needed to build .NET
>> bindings using Visual Studio 2005/2008 ?
>
> sure. This bindings are build acording most engineering apps in .NET.
>
> In .NET people can create solutions.
> [...]
Yes, I perfectly understand how to create and manage Visual Studio
projects for .NET etc. I do it quite often.
What I'm asking is the list of steps specific to .NET bindings for
libLAS. Here is information users will need:
1. What system and software is required to build .NET bindings
2. What solution/project open in Visual Studio
3. In what step to build native DLLs of libLAS and which API, C or C++
3.1. Does user need to build libLAS DLLs using NMAKE or using VS
solution file from build/msvc80
4. If there is a need to change any properties of VS solution/project,
which one to change.
5. How to build and run tests
6. ...
In other words, users expect to see sth like this:
0. You need to have VS2005 or VS2008 + ...
1. Build libLAS DLL using NMAKE:
nmake /f makefile.vc
2. Open trunk/csharp/dotnetliblas.sln solution in Visual Studio
3. Go to properties of project X
4. Change settings Y in properties of project X to value Z
5. Build the solution
6. ...
> .NET project have references. Hello world app have liblasdotnet like
> reference. NUNIT test have NUnit and libladotnet like references.
> [...]
Users should also be told what min version of NUNIT to install and where
they can find NUNIT (a website)
> Here MSBuild help i a lot i think.
>
http://www.monodevelop.com/Release_notes_for_MonoDevelop_2.0_Alpha_1#MSBuild
_File_format
> MSBuild is like NMAKE but for .NET.
> Now MSBuild is the default build system for visual studio and monodevelop.
> [...]
Sure, I know the msbuild quite well.
> Now the problems come.
>
> Usually in .NET references are add magically to the projects. but native
> libraries not. This is not a common problem because
> if you call to the winapi for example you know that libraries in the
system,
> but liblas.dll not.
> Therefore i think osgeo need choose a path in windows for all DLLs.
> [...]
This is why we are lobbying for OSGeo4W - well-known standarized path:
C:\OSGeo4\bin
C:\OSGeo4\lib
C:\OSGeo4\include
> In my case by now i copy the liblas.DLL to all folders by hand. Perhaps
we
> have some option in visual studio for that, but i don´t find it by now.
Why not to use Visual Studio Property Sheet (.vsprops) and specify
LIBLAS_BIN_PATH there as macro.
libLAS DLL can be copied automatically using Post-Build Event configured
in VS project.
>> To summarize, I have Windows XP + Visual Studio 2005 Pro (both VC++ and
VC#
>> compilers installed). What should I do to build the .NET bindings?
>
> The solution is for the Visual Studio 2005 xpress and therefore i hope
> works for you.
Yes, it does.
>> Could you help me?
>
>
> I hope had help you a little. My spanglish really sucks.
It is helpful but we need to prepare short clear and understandible
instructions for users. No worries about english.
So, my suggestion is to prepare file trunk/csharp/README.txt and let's
master the instructions in there.
Next, we can copy them to the Wiki.
Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
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