On Sep 6, 2010, at 4:15 PM, J Luis wrote: > On 06-09-2010 21:35, Howard Butler wrote: >> >> On Sep 5, 2010, at 7:18 AM, J Luis wrote: >>> >>> BTW, what does it mean by "to the directory containing Boost libraries..." >>> There isn't one single .lib inside the entire Boost installation!! >> >> Joaquim, >> >> How did you install Boost? I admit that our Boost finding tools aren't so >> great, and I have had a bit of trouble with them as well on windows, but I >> have had good success by installing the binaries from boostpro.com and >> choosing the program_options library with all build types. By default, >> libLAS wants to statically link the multithreaded DLL for program_options >> and boost_serialization (all other Boost usage in libLAS is headers-only >> AFAIK), so make sure you have these library types installed. If you are >> building Boost yourself, this means investigating and using the options >> necessary in bjam (yuck!, btw, I hope they officially upgrade to CMake) to >> get the build type you need. >> >> Hope this helps, > > Howard, > > Thanks. Meanwhile, digging on the CMake error messages had found that. > It was my first time with Boost (installed via boostpro.com) but the > installer presents us tons of options and each time we check one extra, disk > space requirement grows by hundreds 100 Mb so I just installed the defaults > ... which was the source of the problem. > This info is crucial and must be shown to users on the compiling page.
Can you suggest some verbiage to include in the instructions? > > I'm at this because I wrote a Matlab MEX wrapper to libLAS and wanted to try > the future version, but due to the Boost use I think I'm a bit screwed. The > thing is I want to build also a 64 bits version but there is no Boost version > for 64 bits (there is one cryptic message "for 64 bits versions contact us" > in the boostpro.com page but that's some kind of thing that I'm not > interested on). Is this so? > You can build a 64bit version of boost yourself quite easily using bjam, but you have to learn how to tell bjam what to do ;) > Ah, btw. After solving the boost issue I build under VC2010 with only one > marginal error (something about permission denied to update one manifest, but > VC2010 has no manifests - ALELUIA) We would be interested in seeing what the complaint was about so we can fix it before the next release (soon, soon, I hope it to be soon :) Howard_______________________________________________ Liblas-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/liblas-devel
