[Qgis-developer] compiling xerces on mingw

[Benjamin Ducke]

Thank Mateusz,

unfortunately, the runConfigure script keeps crashing on my
system, so the instructions on the webpage don't really work
for me. Oh well, guess I'll have to spend some extra time on
it.

Best,

Benjamin

Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> the GRASS binaries for Win also need Xerces-C support.
>> I recall that Xerces is in the GDAL binaries for QGIS.
>> Could you post some instructions on which version of
>> the source code was used and how to compile it under
>> MinGW? I'd be very grateful for this, as it seems
>> to be somewhat complicated.
> 
> Benjamin,
> 
> I've never used MinGW myself, but I can confirm that I successfully build
> GDAL 1.4.x and SVN with GCC 4.x using following versions of Xerces:
> 2.7.0
> 2.8.0
> 3.0.0 (SVN)
> 
> Here you can find some confirmation about GDAL & Xerces:
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1799
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/1924
> 
> Summarizing, I believe you can use any of these 3 versions with GDAL & QGIS,
> but I'd suggest 2.8.0 as latest stable version.
> 
> Here you will find instructions about how to build Xerces using MinGW:
> 
> http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/build-winunix.html
> 
> See section "Building on UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X platforms".
> 
> Cheers

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