Re: [gdal-dev] Link GDAL with MinGW

2009-02-26 Thread Ari Jolma
MinGW gcc generates .dll.a files, which are the link libraries, but it can also use the plain dll to link against. However, when you mention gdal16.dll, it sounds like you're trying to link against a GDAL dll that was generated with VC. The C++ API is very difficult to use from such dll when

Re: [gdal-dev] Link GDAL with MinGW

2009-02-26 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Ari Jolma wrote: oops, I believe it is not correct to say Swig bindings use some C++ API, but it is nevertheless sometimes hard/not possible to mix VC and MinGW when developing for Windows Folks, I am interested in making use of the GDAL and OGR C API practical and even convenient when GDAL