[Shapelib] compile error on Windows

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2017-07-10 1:47 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am in the process of upgrading from Shapelib 1.3.0 to 1.4.0 on 
> Windows; I had no problems using cmake to compile 1.4.0, however I also 
> need to compile the utilities from the /contrib directory.  As I don't 
> see how to use cmake for that directory, I modified /contrib/makefile.vc 
> and using Visual Studio 2012 I received this error:
> 
>          cl /Ox /MD /nologo /I.. 
> /ID:\build\mapserver-buildkit-2012\shapelib-1.4.0\build\install\include 
> /ID:\build\mapserver-buildkit-2012\proj-4.9.3\src  /D_LITTLE_ENDIAN 
> -DPROJ4 /c shpcat.c shpgeo.c
> shpcat.c
> shpgeo.c
> shpgeo.c(898) : error C2065: 'NAN' : undeclared identifier
> shpgeo.c(899) : error C2065: 'NAN' : undeclared identifier
> shpgeo.c(909) : error C2065: 'NAN' : undeclared identifier
> shpgeo.c(910) : error C2065: 'NAN' : undeclared identifier
> shpgeo.c(1021) : error C2065: 'NAN' : undeclared identifier
> shpgeo.c(1022) : error C2065: 'NAN' : undeclared identifier
> Generating Code...
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio 11.0\VC\BIN\cl.EXE"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
> 
> 
> Please let me know if there is another way to compile the contrib 
> utilities.  thanks,
> 

I figured it out:  I copied the missing file /contrib/my_nan.h from the 
1.3.0 release into my 1.4.0 contrib folder, and added the following into 
contrib/shpgeo.c

   #ifdef NAN
   #include "my_nan.h"
   #endif

Solved.

Sorry for this noise,

-jeff


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