[osgeo4w-dev] Mapnik in osgeo4w

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Matt,

On Mon, 02. May 2011 at 09:20:36 -0700, Matt Wilkie wrote:
>> It seems like OSGeo4W is made out of several heterogenous compilers.  I'm
>> surprised there is so little (not a single ?) "runtime library
>> incompatibility hell"...

> oh dll hell has shown it's face around here alright. :)
> That's why Frank built dllupdate  
> (http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/dllupdate).

DLL hell - piece of cake ;)

I think Julien is more after more subtle cases like:

http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/40
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/68
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3766

Just to name a few.  There were many more.


Jürgen

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