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

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Tom Russo wrote:

> > GDAL does not use shapelib.  It has its own  shapefile handling.
>
> Which, of course, is nothing more than slightly modified versions of
> shapelib routines.  But the fact that gdal has always peacefully coexisted
> with shapelib when it was a shared library should imply that it will peacefully
> coexist with it as a static-linked library.

I recall some problems with _something_ that GDAL used that Xastir
also used, and we had to change our link lines to force a certain
order of linking to fix it.  I can't recall which library it was now
that did it, but could have been proj, libgeotiff, shapelib, or
something else.

I also seem to remember that GDAL _could_ use external libraries if
installed rather than its internal libraries.  Perhaps Shapelib is
not one of those though.  Doesn't really matter to us I guess unless
we run into version/linking issues.

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