[FWTools] FWTools Library Version

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 1/1/06, Lennox Antoine <lxnyce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I built ogrinfo.cpp in a visual C++ project using the lib and
> headers from FWTools1.0.0a8 and I get the same problem.
>
> The included project will build if you copy all the lib and header
> files from the fwtools distribution in that directory. It fails to
> display any information though.
>
> So is it safe to say that I can't use the FWTools dll's? One last
> thing I thought of, what version of MSVC is fwtools built with? I am
> building with 7.1.

Lennox,

FWTools is built using VC6, using /MD.  It *should* be ok
to build using VC7.1 and link against the DLL using the C API.
I am not sure why you are running into problems.

Best regards,

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