2011.04.12 02:06 "[Tiff] Libtiff v4.0.0beta7 released", by Bob
Friesenhahn
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2011.04.12 15:55 "Re: [Tiff] Libtiff v4.0.0beta7 released", by Edward Lam
On 4/12/2011 9:30 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On 4/11/2011 10:06 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
WIN32 native I/O is used always used under Windows (except for Cygwin) in order to support huge files and Windows-friendly features.
I just did a default MSVC 2005 build under Win64 and it was building tif_unix.c, is that intended?
The MSVC build is virtually unmaintained since none of the current libtiff maintainers personally care about it. Patches/fixes and tender loving care are appreciated.
If we want to change that, it's just a matter of commenting out the "USE_WIN_CRT_LIB" line in nmake.opt. At least the builds will now use the same defaults. :)
I just realized that changing the default to use tif_win32.c might be problematic though because TIFFFdOpen(), TIFFFileno(), and TIFFSetFileno() work differently vs tif_unix.c. I had previously submitted a patch to fix this in bug #1941 [1].
Regards,
-Edward
1. http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1941