[Liblas-devel] Building under MinGW on Windows

[Angley, William [USA]]

Mike,

I'm getting the MinGW environment because it's the only way to obtain an up-to-date version of GNU Wget on Windows.  The GnuWin32 project is only providing out-of-date binaries with security vulnerabilities.
If I can build liblas with it, I can get rid of Visual Studio.  I've got a pretty resource-constrained machine and VS is injecting unwanted debugging behaviors into Windows that I don't want and don't understand how to disable.
If I can't build liblas with it, I don't want to waste my time or anyone else's trying to make it work on MinGW, and I'll keep going as is.   I have a working VS build, so this is not an urgent request by any means.

Thanks again,

-- Will

From: Smith, Michael D ERDC-CRREL-NH [mailto:michael.smith at usace.army.mil]
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 12:33 PM
To: Angley, William [USA]; Liblas-devel at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Liblas-devel] Building under MinGW on Windows

Will,

Any particular reason to build under MinGW as opposed to using Visual C++?

Mike


--
Michael Smith
Remote Sensing/GIS Center
US Army Corps of Engineers
Hanover, NH



On 12/8/10  12:29 PM, "Angley, William [USA]" <angley_william at bah.com> wrote:
Hi liblas developers,

I'm going to be getting a MinGW environment set up on my computer shortly and will probably try to build liblas with it sooner or later.  Has anyone tried this before, and if so, how did it work out?

The official liblas.org instructions assume that you're building with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler if you're on Windows, and don't seem to speak to MinGW one way or the other.

Thanks,

-- Will

William Angley III
Sr. Consultant
Booz Allen Hamilton
575 Herndon Parkway
Herndon, VA 20170
Tel. (703) 377-9104
angley_william at bah.com

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