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2009.03.04 17:40 "Re: Building Libtiff in Visual Studio under Windows?", by Steven Lehar
*** I FOUND THE PROBLEM *** I needed one more thing: Project > Properties > Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies, added libtiff.lib NOW it runs!!!! (whew!) Thanks very much for your help, sorry for cluttering your email boxes! Steve Lehar On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Steven Lehar <slehar@gmail.com> wrote: > > If I remove the > > Project > Properties > C/C++ > Additional include directories > > then the error on build becomes > > Error 1 fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'tiffio.h': No such > file or directory c:\documents and settings\flight landata\my > documents\visual studio > 2005\projects\testtifflib\testtifflib\testtifflib.cpp 5 > I have tried moving #include "tiffio.h" from stdafx.h to TestLibTiff.cpp > but that doesn't fix it. > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Steven Lehar <slehar@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oh, and I forgot to mention (but didn't forget to do) >> >> nmake /f Makefile.vc >> >> which eventually (after some initial problems) completed without errors, >> so I have compiled the library from source. >> >> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Steven Lehar <slehar@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> Thanks a lot for your help guys, I'm *ALMOST* there now! >>> >>> I downloaded LibTiff from ftp.remotesensing.org tiff-3.8.2.zip, >>> installed it in C:\Program Files\tiff-3.8.2, >>> >>> edited libtiff\tiffconf.h and commented out... >>> /* #define JPEG_SUPPORT 1 */ >>> /* #define PIXARLOG_SUPPORT 1 */ >>> /* #define ZIP_SUPPORT 1 */ >>> as suggested in the documentation (after discovering it was indeed >>> necessary) >>> >>> There is no tiff-3.8.2\include folder, but I found a bunch of *.h files >>> in tiff-3.8.2\libtiff. Now in Visual Studio, in my TestLibTiff project I did >>> >>> Project > Properties > C/C++ > Additional Include Directories, added >>> "C:\Program Files\tiff-3.8.2\libtiff" >>> >>> Project > Properties > Linker > Additional library directories, added >>> "C:\Program Files\tiff-3.8.2\libtiff" >>> >>> In stdafx.h added >>> #include "tiffio.h" >>> >>> then [F5] (build solution) and I get this error: >>> >>> Error 1 error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _TIFFOpen referenced in >>> function _wmain TestTiffLib.obj >>> Error 2 fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals C:\Documents and >>> Settings\Flight Landata\My Documents\Visual Studio >>> 2005\Projects\TestTiffLib\Debug\TestTiffLib.exe 1 >>> Any idea what I might be missing? >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Edward Lam <edward@sidefx.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >> >