[osgeo4w-dev] Success with using gdal + vs2005

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just wanted to report successful test case.
> Using Visual Studio 2005 (without Service Pack 1),
> I've successfully built libLAS with GDAL support linked to the library 
> from OSGeo4W.
> 
> One question, why GDAL files do not live under common C:\OSGeo4W prefix
> but are separated in c:\OSGeo4W\apps\gdal-dev ?

Mateusz,

The gdal package lives in the normal places and is built from branches/1.5.
The gdal-dev package is built from trunk and is kept very segregated so that
people don't use it by accident, and so that the gdal-dev dll is not normally
in the path.

Generally speaking no one should be building against the gdal-dev package
since it may be upgraded in ways that break ABI compatability at any time.
It mainly exists so that folks can try out trunk via the gdal utilities.

Best regards,
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