compiling Gdal in Cygwin

[Jacob Delfos]

Richard,

thanks for the tip. I didn't know this existed, and it will be very useful. Unfortunately it cannot seem to compile gdal, because a file called windows.h is missing. But it's still a useful compiler to have.

regards,

Jacob

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Greenwood [mailto:richard.greenwood at gmail.com] 
Sent: 23 February 2005 08:50
To: Jacob Delfos
Cc: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] compiling Gdal in Cygwin

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
richard.greenwood at gmail.com
www.greenwoodmap.com
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