GDAL/OGR 1.3.1 Released - Building failed on Windows with MinGW

[Tamas Szekeres]

Yes, and using nmake.


Tamas



On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 02:53:23 +0400, david techer <davidtecher at YAHOO.FR>
wrote:

>Ok Tamas thanks you
>
>By VS7 you mean Visual Studio 7?
>
>--david;
>-------------------------------------------------
>Jean David TECHER
>e-mail: davidtecher(at)yahoo(dot)fr
>site: http://techer.pascal.free.fr/postgis/
>-------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>Tamas Szekeres a écrit :
>
>>David,
>>
>>Without being concerned with MinGW/Msys the library successfully compiles
>>on Windows using VS7. The only problem was with the compilation of the
>>SWIG C# library that could finally be succeeded with the method described
>>in:
>>
>>http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949
>>
>>
>>Tamas Szekeres
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:05:17 +0400, david techer <davidtecher at YAHOO.FR>
>>wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Tamas is right!
>>>
>>>I tryed myself to compil it on Windows using MinGW and Msys but without
>>>
>>>
>>any success.
>>
>>
>>>BTW, is there someone who can give me the commands he used to compil on
>>>
>>>
>>Windows
>>
>>
>>>with MinGW/Msys. There is GDAL FAQ and the mailing-list and I tryed from
>>>
>>>
>>the archive
>>
>>
>>>but if someon can just give to me the commands he did...
>>>
>>>Since I'm used to compiling/building PostgreSQL/PostGIS/Geos/Proj on
>>>
>>>
>>windows, if I do it
>>
>>
>>>for gdal it will be a great help...
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Regards.
>>>
>>>David.
>>>
>>>--david;
>>>-------------------------------------------------
>>>Jean David TECHER
>>>e-mail: davidtecher(at)yahoo(dot)fr
>>>site: http://techer.pascal.free.fr/postgis/
>>>-------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Tamas Szekeres a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Frank,
>>>>
>>>>Thank you for the release. However in order to compile SWIG with C#
some
>>>>modifications should be made in the makefile and some typemaps should
be
>>>>added.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Tamas
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 15:32:51 -0400, Frank Warmerdam
<warmerdam at POBOX.COM>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Folks,
>>>>>
>>>>>I am pleased to announce the release of GDAL/OGR 1.3.1.  This is
mostly
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>a
>>
>>
>>>>>bug fix release, though there are a few new and improved drivers.
>>>>>
>>>>>Source:
>>>>>http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.3.1.tar.gz
>>>>>http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal131.zip
>>>>>
>>>>>Docs / Web site:
>>>>>http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal131doc.zip
>>>>>
>>>>>Test Suite:
>>>>>http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdalautotest-1.3.1.tar.gz
>>>>>
>>>>>The major news with this release is that the "Next Generation" Perl,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Python
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>and Ruby bindings are now considered ready to use, though I'm sure
there
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>will
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>be some additional improvements to them in the coming months.  I would
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>like to
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>give out a special thank you to Ari Jolma (perl), Charlie Savage
(Ruby),
>>>>>Kevin Ruland (Python + overall NG work) and Howard Butler who have put
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>in
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>huge amount of effort on these bindings.  If we can get champions for
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Java,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>C# and PHP that are willing to brave the dark depths of SWIG, I'm sure
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>we
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>can
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>make good progress on them too.
>>>>>
>>>>>Best regards,
>>>>>---------------------------------------+------------------------------
--
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>--
>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>warmerdam at pobox.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>>>>>and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for
Rent
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>GDAL 1.3.1 - Overview of Changes
>>>>>--------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>Next Generation SWIG Wrappers (GDAL and OGR):
>>>>>- Python, Perl and Ruby bindings considered to be ready to use.
>>>>>- C#, Java, PHP are at best initial prototypes.
>>>>>- Added configure options for most NG options.
>>>>>
>>>>>PCRaster Driver:
>>>>>- libcsf is now included as part of GDAL.
>>>>>- PCRaster enabled by default on win32.
>>>>>- --with-pcraster=internal option now supported on unix (but not yet
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>default)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>VSI Virtualization:
>>>>>- The "large file API" (VSI*L) has been re-engineered to allow
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>installing
>>
>>
>>>>> additional file handlers at runtime.
>>>>>- Added "in memory" VSI handler so that now any driver using VSI*L
>>>>> functions for data access can operate on in-memory files.
>>>>>- PNG, JPEG and GeoTIFF drivers upgraded to work with in-memory
support.
>>>>>
>>>>>Raster Attribute Tables:
>>>>>- Implemented new Raster Attribute Tables support.  See the
>>>>> GDALRasterAttributeTable class for more information.
>>>>>
>>>>>Erdas Imagine Overviews:
>>>>>- Erdas Imagine driver upgraded to support building internal
overviews.
>>>>>- Generic overview handler updated to support overviews in Erdas
Imagine
>>>>> format for any file format.  Set USE_RRD config option to YES to
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>enable.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>gdalwarp:
>>>>>- Added proper support for "unified source nodata", so the -srcnodata
>>>>> switch works well.
>>>>>
>>>>>RIK Driver:
>>>>>- New Swedish format driver implemented by Daniel Wallner.
>>>>>
>>>>>JPEG Driver:
>>>>>- Substantial improvements to EXIF support.
>>>>>
>>>>>MrSID Driver:
>>>>>- Updated with proper JPEG2000 support as JP2MRSID driver, including
>>>>> encoding with ESDK.
>>>>>- Updated to support MrSID Version 5.x SDKs.
>>>>>
>>>>>PNG Driver:
>>>>>- Fixed serious bugs with 16bit file support.
>>>>>- Added NODATA_VALUES to identify RGB sets that indicate a nodata
pixel.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>OGR 1.3.1 - Overview of Changes
>>>>>-------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>>Reference Counting:
>>>>>- OGRSpatialReference and OGRFeatureDefn now honour reference counting
>>>>> semantics.
>>>>>- Note that, especially for the OGRFeatureDefn, it is now critical
that
>>>>> all drivers be careful with reference counting.  Any OGR drivers not
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>in
>>
>>
>>>>> the core distribution will likely crash if not updated.
>>>>>
>>>>>ESRI Personal Geodatabase Driver:
>>>>>- New driver implemented for ESRI Personal Geodatabase (.mdb) files.
>>>>>- Uses ODBC, enabled by default on win32.
>>>>>
>>>>>ODBC Driver:
>>>>>- Updated to support binary fields.
>>>>>- Updated to support WKB geometry fields.
>>>>>- Updated to support DSN-less connections.
>>>>>
>>>>>S57 Driver:
>>>>>- Added support for Inland Waterways, and Additional Military Layers
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>profiles
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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