[Liblas-devel] Problems (and solutions) installing liblas 1.6.0 onMac OS X

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

Peder,

I don¹t think you should be using WITH_ENDIANAWARE. That¹s only for
compiling on Big Endian systems (SPARC). OS X is little endian.

Mike


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



On 2/20/11 4:46 AM, "Peder Axensten" <Peder.Axensten at slu.se> wrote:

> On Mac OS X 10.6.6 there are a few issues with the liblas installation, at
> least on my machine. These problems occurred on a copy of the active source
> code. I also tried the latest release, but it seems to have the same issues.
> 
> A basic installation works well, but
> 
> Using WITH_GDAL it gets the wrong GDAL_LIBRARY path. It works if I change it
> manually to
> /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/unix/lib/libgdal
> (It does get GDAL_INCLUDE_DIR right:
> /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Headers)
> 
> Using WITH_LASZIP it gets the wrong LASZIP_INCLUDE_DIR. It gets it to
> /usr/local/bin, changing it manually to /usr/local/include fixes it.
> 
> Using WITH_ENDIANAWARE I got
> liblas/src/point.cpp: In member function Œuint16_t
> liblas::Point::GetIntensity() const¹:
> liblas/src/point.cpp:563: error: no matching function for call to
> ŒbitsToInt(uint16_t&, const std::vector<unsigned char, std::allocator<unsigned
> char> >&, size_t&)¹
> liblas/src/point.cpp: In member function Œuint16_t
> liblas::Point::GetPointSourceID() const¹:
> liblas/src/point.cpp:791: error: no matching function for call to
> ŒbitsToInt(uint16_t&, const std::vector<unsigned char, std::allocator<unsigned
> char> >&, size_t&)¹
> make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/las.dir/point.cpp.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/las.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> I can see that there is a
>         template <typename IntegerType>
>         inline IntegerType bitsToInt(IntegerType& output,
> std::vector<boost::uint8_t> const& data, std::size_t index)
> in details/private_utility.hpp, but I haven't looked into why it's not
> found...
> 
> 
> 
> We are about 10 researchers who work extensively with las files, generated
> from lidar scanning as well as aerial photography through photometrical
> calculations. I want to develop a C++ library implementing our most frequent
> tasks. The idea is to implement it in C++ and then run it from R through
> wrappers. To be able to use liblas, it must be easily to install it on Mac,
> Linux, and Windows using gcc (that R requires, also on Windows).
> 
> I'm not very good with 'make' scripts, but I'm very willing to contribute in
> any way I can.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Peder Axensten
> Research engineer
> 
> Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
> Dept. of Forest Resource Management
> Forest Remote Sensing
> Sweden
> 
> Phone: +46-90-786.8500
> http://www.srh.slu.se/
> 
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