[Qgis-user] Re: QGIS intallation, Windows XP, TIFFUnsetField, libtiff.dll

[Patrick Giraudoux]

> Hi Patrick,
>
> On Sun, 29. Nov 2009 at 12:06:45 +0100, Patrick Giraudoux wrote:
> > I have seen on the list that Agustin Lobo had a quite similar trouble:
>  
> > <http://n2.nabble.com/Problem-with-TIFFSetField-in-*libtiff*-*dll*-td2271128.html 
> <http://n2.nabble.com/Problem-with-TIFFSetField-in-libtiff-dll-td2271128.html>>, 
>
>
> > but I cannot find out if whether it was solved or not and if so how...
>
> In that thread Frank suspected that there is a *libtiff*.*dll* in Agus 
> system32
> directory.  That was the case and Agus removed it.  That helped.


Yes, but I found that libtiff.dll was NOT in C:/WINDOWS/system32, but is 
well present in C:\OSGeo4W\bin

>
> Unfortunately it's not possible to have *Windows* find OSGeo4W's 
> *libtiff*.*dll*
> before the one in system32 and removing it or replacing it with the 
> OSGeo4W
> version might break the software that originally put it there.
>
> But in that case it might help to put the original *libtiff*.*dll* 
> into the same
> directory as the .EXE of the other software.
This is not clear to me. libtiff.dll is currently in C:\OSGeo4W\bin 
where I can find qgis.bat but not qgis.exe. Do you mean that I should 
move libtiff.dll into C:/WINDOWS/system32 ?

Thanks for the hint,

Patrick



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