[Liblas-devel] Latest LibLAS doesn't run on VS2005

[Mark Twombley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mateusz Loskot [mailto:mateusz at loskot.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 7:09 AM
> To: Howard Butler
> Cc: mark.twombley at microsurvey.com; liblas-devel at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Liblas-devel] Latest LibLAS doesn't run on VS2005
> 
> On 02/06/10 04:10, Howard Butler wrote:
> > On Jun 1, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Mark Twombley wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I’ve fallowed all the instructions on the website and I got a
> >> build and an install.  There were some warning messages about
> >> conversion and unused formal parameters.  After the build I can’t
> >> find the liblas1.dll file anywhere and when I build the RUN_TESTS I
> >> get an error about vector<bool>  iterator not dereferencable.
> >>
> >> Has anyone else tried to build with VS2005 under the latest LibLas
> >> from Mercurial?
> >>
> >
> > Mark,
> >
> > (presuming you're using the cmake instructions
> > http://liblas.org/compilation.html#using-visual-studio-9-2008-on-
> windows
> > )
> >
> > I expect that it *should* compile under VS2005 before we release, but
> > would not be surprised that doesn't at this time.  I have only tested
> > with 2008 myself (recently used to write that document just last week
> > :).
> >
> >
> > Mateusz,
> >
> > Do you remember if vector<bool>  is legit in VS2005? Evidently
> > not...
> 
> There have been some bugs in VS2005 related to vector<bool> iterator
> (i.e.
> https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/98676)
> Perhaps Mark is suffering of one of them.
> 
> I personally never use vector<bool> as std::vector design
> is not made intuitive enough to store bool, thus historically
> there are too many caveats - especially in older implementations.
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

Thanks for the quick response.  I have a working build now.