[Geotiff] Problem compiling under MinGW/MSYS

[Thom DeCarlo]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fwarmerdam at gmail.com [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
> Frank Warmerdam
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:29 PM
> To: Thom DeCarlo
> Cc: geotiff at lists.maptools.org
> Subject: Re: [Geotiff] Problem compiling under MinGW/MSYS
> 
> On 1/30/06, Thom DeCarlo <t.r.decarlo at larc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > I got more info from the MinGW/MSYS mailing list. It seems that, in
> MinGW,
> > we should not be using the "ld" command to link the libraries unless we
> are
> > also going to specify *all* of the required libraries. Instead, use
> "gcc" or
> > "g++" to link and it will pick up all the necessary libraries. I tested
> this
> > on the geotiff library build and it does work. I'm not sure how to get
> this
> > change folded into the geotiff "configure.in" file in the CVS, though.
> 
> 
> Thom,
> 
> I have upgraded the AC_LD_SHARED macro I used to figure
> out what to use for LD in libgeotiff to the same logic used for
> GDAL.   Could you try from CVS again and see if the new logic
> works better?
> 
> Best regards,
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Hi Frank,
I cannot access CVS servers from work (thankyouverymuch net adminazis), but
I will try it tonight and let you know my results. 

Thanks,
Thom

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