[Liblas-devel] setup LibLAS for vb.net 2010 (express)

[Lewis Carrol]

Hi all,

I am really struggling to set up liblas to use for my development in vb.net.

 Has anyone here setup liblas correctly for vb.net(express) and can that
person give me some clear instructions?

I have downloaded liblas from http://liblas.org/download.html
Also download and installed OSGeo4W.
Also downloaded and installed cmake make_gui.

Normally I can easily follow installation instructions (
http://liblas.org/tutorial/vbnet.html ,
http://liblas.org/compilation.html#using-visual-studio-9-2008-on-windows), I
write a whole lot of tools and programs in vb.net without any use of a
manual, have 10 years+ experience in programming in a professional
environment (vb +vb.express), but this liblas setup only is really giving me
a headache, I must have tried at least 6 times during the last couple of
weeks, without success.

Part of the problem is that I (and that may sounds stupid to some of you
guys) don't know what I am actually doing during this complex installation.

I think I am just setting up a reference or link to the liblas.dll to be
able to use the instructions compiled in the DLL. I have done that so often
with other DLL's, easy, 1 minute job and I am programming. *Imports LibLAS*,
done?
But now I have to install cmake (done, but what is the reason for this?),
install OSGeo4W (done, and I have installed the full set, but why?), run a
command prompt from vb.net (done) but then it doesn't work anymore for me.
cmake doesn't find the files it needs, vb.net doesn't load the dll, I am not
sure how to continue, probably because I don't quite understand the need of
all these extra tools to 'set up a reference'...

Can't I just create a simple reference to the DLL and start programming?

Has anyone here setup liblas correctly for vb.net(express) and can you give
me some clear insructions? That would be very much appreciated.

Lewis.
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