[Liblas-devel] Patch for utility.hpp for negative elevations

[Howard Butler]

On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Erik Jacobsen wrote:

>
> Hello Mateusz,
>
> Thank you for looking at that so quickly.  As long as I am making  
> suggestions, I have two more both relating to building with MSVC  
> version 9, SP1 using makefile.vc and nmake.opt:
>
> 1) Please consider removing /GR from OPTFLAGS.  Using a non-default  
> calling convention produces somewhat puzzling linker errors when  
> attempting to statically link against libLas.

IIRC, I needed /GR to be able to link libLAS against the OSGeo4W GDAL  
and GeoTIFF DLLs.  Static linkage of libLAS is not our typical usage  
scenario.  Please consider registering for the wiki and creating a  
page that describes how to build libLAS statically for those  
interested...  Because I want to be able to easily generate official  
libLAS windows releases targeted at OSGeo4W using msvc 7.1/8, I don't  
see us removing /GR.


>
>
> 2) Please consider using /Z7 for debug info in OPTFLAGS instead of / 
> Zi.  /Z7 produces C7 style debugging information which is directly  
> embedded in the library eliminating the need for a separate .pdb file.
>

Does /Z7 work for msvc 7.1/8 as well?  It would be wonderful to have a  
-g like option instead of those damn .pdb files everywhere.

Howard