[Qgis-developer] Building gdal in mingw xcompile environment

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Radim

I have been working my way through your instructions but creating
everything in a chroot jail so that we have a ready to use, easy to
distribute windows build environment for linux. Did you have to do any
other configuration things for gdal? :

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/win/source/gdal-1.3.1/ogr'
i586-mingw32msvc-g++  ogrinfo.o ../libgdal.a  ../libgdal.a
-L/home/user/win/i586-mingw32msvc/lib -lgeos -lz  -o ogrinfo
../libgdal.a(cpl_vsil.o):cpl_vsil.cpp:(.text+0x401): undefined
reference to `_VSIInstallLargeFileHandler'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [ogrinfo] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/win/source/gdal-1.3.1/ogr'
make: *** [ogr-apps] Error 2

Grepping for that I see :

user at ubuntu:~/win/source/gdal-1.3.1$ egrep -R
VSIInstallLargeFileHandler * Binary file libgdal.a matches
Binary file port/cpl_vsil.o matches
port/cpl_vsil_win32.cpp:/*                    
VSIInstallLargeFileHandler()                 */
port/cpl_vsil_win32.cpp:void VSIInstallLargeFileHandler()
port/cpl_vsi_mem.cpp:/*                    
VSIInstallLargeFileHandler()              */
port/cpl_vsi.h:void CPL_DLL VSIInstallLargeFileHandler(void);
port/cpl_vsil_unix_stdio_64.cpp:/*                    
VSIInstallLargeFileHandler()                     */
port/cpl_vsil_unix_stdio_64.cpp:void VSIInstallLargeFileHandler()
port/cpl_vsil.cpp:        VSIInstallLargeFileHandler();

Any thoughts?....

Also you have this section under todo use dll:

     # $WIN/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/g++ --shared -o xdr.dll \
     #              -Wl,--out-implib=libxdr.dll.a \
     #              -Wl,--export-all-symbols \
     #              -Wl,--enable-auto-import \
     #              -Wl,--whole-archive libxdr.a \
     #              -Wl,--no-whole-archive -lwsock32 -liberty -lmingw32
     # $WIN/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/strip xdr.dll
     # cp xdr.dll $WIN/i586-mingw32msvc/bin/
     # cp libxdr.dll.a $WIN/i586-mingw32msvc/lib
     # rm -f $WIN/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/libxdr.a

Is it correct that we should not follow the above steps?

Thanks!

Regards

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