[Liblas-devel] New win32 installer

[Howard Butler]

On Oct 25, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Neil Woodhouse wrote:

> I downloaded the latest installer for Win32 and was excited to see  
> that it was standalone, i.e. I did not have to build the geoTIFF  
> libraries. Taking the example code from the FAQ pages and building a  
> simple console application. The code wanted the jpeg_osgeo.dll to be  
> installed… Is the intent of the Win32 download or am I missing  
> something? Would it would possible to include a  sample c or c++  
> code with the installer?
>

> Neil,
>
> Our Win32 stuff isn't really an installer, and its intent was to  
> just provide some convenience for someone wanting to use the  
> commandline utilities.  As far as documentation, etc, I don't really  
> want to put that in the win32 zip file because I'd like to have  
> libLAS' win32 story be OSGeo4W, rather than a standalone zip file.
>
> If you have a patch for more documentation or example code, we would  
> gladly take it and incorporate it into the website.  I don't think  
> it is the intent of the packages to stand on their own at this point  
> without the website, however.
>
> Howard

I see that the windows .zip file doesn't have these dlls.  I have  
refreshed the release to include these.

Sorry for the trouble.

Howard