[Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:12:30AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > The best approach would be to have a subdirectory that is conditionally
> > compiled.  We have one such directory now, the rtree directory.  
> 
> In order to get this into the Xastir compile properly we need an
> "xastir/src/shapelib/" directory, not "xastir/shapelib/", correct?

Yes.

> "xastir/src/shapelib/" would put it at the same level as rtree and
> allow us to have Xastir's configure set up everything for us.  I
> seem to remember that Make has troubles with multiple top-level
> subdirs.  This would avoid that problem.

Yes.  Although I'm not sure that Make does in fact have trouble with multiple
top level directories --- there should be no reason that lower level 
directories are special.

> I put the shapelib-1.2.10 sources into "xastir/src/shapelib/" and
> may attempt to merge it into autoconf/automake.  If I get the
> install to work with/without Shapelib already installed I'll check
> it into CVS.
> 
> I'll have to go study after that to see how to link it in
> statically, which Tom suggested is the right thing to do in order to
> avoid problems with incompatible shared libs in the future.

Simple to do.  Don't create a shared library.

Unfortunately, that does imply that we'll have to hack on shapelib's makefile,
as Jason points out.  That should not be difficult.

I'm bored now.  I might look into this right this minute.

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