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2009.03.03 21:32 "Re: Building Libtiff in Visual Studio under Windows?", by Edward Lam
For Windows, I suggest just building libtiff yourself from source using nmake. See: http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/build.html#PC It seems rather backwards to me to use gcc on Windows unless you absolutely have to when you have access to such a great debugger like Visual Studio. Regards, -Edward Steven Lehar wrote: > Wow! Thanks for the very prompt reply! And thanks for identifying my > problem! > > So could I do it by installing Cygwin and using the Makefiles? (I used to do > Unix in the olden days) > > Steve > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < > bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > >> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Steven Lehar wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> I'm having trouble building Libtiff in Windows, both on a win32 XP >>> machine, >>> and also on a 64-bit Vista machine. I have the same problem on both >>> machines. Maybe I'm making a simple mistake. Can somebody help me? >>> >>> I downloaded the Windoz binaries from >>> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tiff.htm (maybe this is the >>> problem >>> for my 64-bit Vista machine, although it SHOULD work, but thats why I >>> tried >>> again with my win32 XP machine) and installed it at >>> >>> (making sure to have a "TestImage.tif" in the local folder). But when I >>> tried to build, I got: >>> >>> Linking... >>> LINK: Fatal error LNK1104: Cannot open file 'C:\Program Files >>> (x86)\GnuWin32\lib\libtiff.lib;' >>> >>> What am I doing wrong? >>> >> You have downloaded a library built by GCC for use with GCC. Visual Studio >> can not use GCC libraries. >> >> Bob >> -- >> Bob Friesenhahn >> bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ >> GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/<http://www.graphicsmagick.org/> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tiff mailing list: Tiff@lists.maptools.org > http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/tiff > http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/