Hi Paul, I wonder if it would be possible to doing an optional link of this lib, only adding it if it's required. I really don't know enough about Windows or the libcurl build under Windows to suggest how it might be done, but at it's crudest perhaps one could make it an user editable option.
Robert. On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Paul Martz <pma...@skew-matrix.com> wrote: > Hi all -- I recently did a scratch install of WinXP Pro on my laptop, and > was (once again) bitten by osgdb_curl dependency on wldap32.lib. > > After installing the operating system, I installed Visual Studio 2005 > Standard Edition, and accepted all the defaults. When building OSG, > everything built fine except for osgdb_curl, which could not find > wldap32.lib. This file was not installed as part of the Visual Studio 2005 > installation. > > To resolve this issue, I did two things: > > 1. I downloaded and installed "MS Windows SDK for MS Server 2008". Anyone > should be able to find where to download this by doing a web search. This is > a huge download / install, so plan accordingly. > > 2. In the VS GUI, open Tools > Options. Then open Projects and Solutions > > VC++ Directories, and select Library files from the "Show Directories For" > menu. Add this directory to the list: > C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.1\Lib > I hope this info will help others who might encounter this issue in the > future, though from reading posts by others it sounds like it's not an issue > with VS 2008. > > Paul Martz > Skew Matrix Software LLC > http://www.skew-matrix.com > +1 303 859 9466 > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list osg-users@lists.openscenegraph.org http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
