From licb at cma.gov.cn  Sat Apr 12 10:51:35 2014
From: licb at cma.gov.cn (licb at cma.gov.cn)
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:51:35 +0800 (GMT+08:00)
Subject: [Geotiff] libgeotiff link error on Windows system
Message-ID: <766df08b.361f.14556a30702.Coremail.licb@cma.gov.cn>

Dear Sir,
I have been trying to build libgeotiff library on Microsoft Windows 8.1 by using Visual Studio 2013, but I couldnt get it working. First thing first, I successfully built the PROJ.4 (proj-4.8.0) and libtiff (tiff-4.0.3) libs. Then I modified the makefile.vc under libgeotiff-1.4.0 directory as follows:
OSGEO4W = C:\FY2Grid\tiff-4.0.3\libtiff

TIFF_INC = -I$(OSGEO4W)
TIFF_LIB_DLL = $(OSGEO4W)\libtiff_i.lib
PROJ_LIB_DLL = C:\FY2Grid\proj-4.8.0\src\proj.lib
......
$(DLLNAME):    $(OBJS)
	link /dll /out:$(DLLNAME) /implib:geotiff_i.lib proj.lib $(OBJS) $(TIFF_LIB_DLL) $(PROJ_LIB_DLL)
	if exist $(DLLNAME).manifest mt -manifest $(DLLNAME).manifest -outputresource:$(DLLNAME);2

When I issue the following commands:
C:\FY2Grid\libgeotiff-1.4.0>nmake /f makefile.vc clean
C:\FY2Grid\libgeotiff-1.4.0>nmake /f makefile.vc

to build libgeotiff, it throwed the following linking error message
....
...
        cl -I. -Ilibxtiff -IC:\FY2Grid\tiff-4.0.3\libtiff /MD /Ox /nologo /c geo_simpletags.c
geo_simpletags.c
        lib /out:geotiff.lib xtiff.obj  geo_free.obj  geo_get.obj  geo_names.obj  geo_new.obj  geo_print.obj  geo_set.obj  geo_tiffp.obj  geo_write.obj  geo_extra.obj  geo_trans.obj  geo_normalize.obj  geotiff_proj4.obj  geo_simpletags.obj  cpl_csv.obj  cpl_serv.obj
Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 11.00.60610.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

        link /dll /out:geotiff.dll /implib:geotiff_i.lib proj_i.lib xtiff.obj  geo_free.obj  geo_get.obj  geo_names.obj  geo_new.obj  geo_print.obj  geo_set.obj  geo_tiffp.obj  geo_write.obj  geo_extra.obj  geo_trans.obj  geo_normalize.obj  geotiff_proj4.obj  geo_simpletags.obj  cpl_csv.obj  cpl_ser
v.obj C:\FY2Grid\tiff-4.0.3\libtiff\libtiff_i.lib C:\FY2Grid\proj-4.8.0\src\proj.lib
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 11.00.60610.1
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'proj_i.lib'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\BIN\link.EXE"' : return code '0x49d'
Stop.

"cannot open input file 'proj_i.lib'", but the "proj_i.lib" is really in the given directory. 

Would you please show me how to successfully build your libgeotiff? Thank you.

Golden Lee