[Xastir] Shapelib & Cygwin

[Dan Brown]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Gale wrote:

> How do you get shapelib to "make" properly under cygwin?    I have 
> installed the latest cygwin (packages per the win32 install notes) and 
> then downloaded and unpacked the latest shapelib source package for 
> compiling.  But when trying to do the "make lib" it errors out part way 
> through the process.  The error seems to be:
>  dbfopen.lo: In function 'DBFReadAttribute':
> /home/gwilkinson/src/shapelib-1.2.10/dbfopen.c:724:undefined reference 
> to '__getreent'
> /home/gwilkinson/src/shapelib-1.2.10/dbfopen.c:716:undefined reference 
> to '__getreent'
> make: *** [lib] Error 1
> 
> As I am not a C programmer, I have no idea what this means!
> 
> Any help on where to look for the problem (or better yet, a fix!) would 
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
>     Gale


I wrote this to get/make shapelib: 

http://brauhaus.org/xastir/get_shapelib.sh

or

http://brauhaus.org/xastir/get_shapelib.sh.txt



73, N8YSZ. 
Dan. 
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Dan Brown 
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