compiling Gdal in Cygwin

[Richard Greenwood]

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 07:56:40 +0800, Jacob Delfos
<jacob.delfos at maunsell.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I know someone has probably asked this once, but... are there any
> instructions on how to compile Gdal using Cygwin? I once spent a day trying,
> but gave up when the errors got too exotic. The problems I ran into were
> mostly about it not detecting my platform. I modified the GDALmake.opt file,
> trying to hardcode it to win32 related settings, but in the end I gave up.
>
> Reason I'm trying this is that I'm desperate for a gdal dll that supports
> mrsid and ecw. I've got one that does either, but not both......
> Unfortunately, I haven't got any other platform for compiling. I'm not
> particularly experienced in compiling, but if I know it's possible in
> cygwin, I won't give up.
>
> regards,
>
> Jacob

I recently discovered that the Microsoft .NET SDK (free download)
includes the vc compiler, nmake, etc.. I haven't tried to build GDAL
with it yet, but I think there is a very good chance that it will
work.

Regards,
--
Richard Greenwood
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