Dear Developers,
Another questions concerning the Quantum-GIS source. I briefly described the
project that Martijn and I are on in regard to combining QGIS with 3D geometry
(/CAD) functionality.
I have compiled many softwares under linux, although for QGIS I almost always
simply use the binaries and never build under windows.
Yet, since our customized QGIS is a geological field acquisition tool that runs
on a Windows Tablet PC, I need to compile under windows.
First I tried to simply build from the latest github src tree (as of last week)
and carefully followed the instructions as provided by
http://www.qgis.org/api/INSTALL.html#toc14
Tim Sutton already kindly pointed me to fact that QGIS should be built with
Visual Studio (Express) v9 2008 and not with version 10, 2010 what I was using
before.
As result, I no longer have the when building the qgis_core: "The system cannot
find the batch label specified - VCReportError".
Instead, I get the another error when building qgis_core that says: " ...
Generating qgsexpressionparser.cpp ... The system cannot find the path
specified.". I attached the corresponding BuildLog.htm file. Any idea what
causes this new problem with building qgis_core?
I use a Windows 7 machine with Visual Studio 2008 (v9) and cmake(-gui) 2.8.8.
Initially, I had various issues with the configure and generate in cmake-gui
but, I think, I managed to resolve all of them. Except of one problem of which
I am not sure if that may cause my issue with building QGIS to do with Windows
SDK and the SetupAPI.Lib which I find on my system at C:/Progra~2/Microsoft
SDKs/Windows/v6.0A/Lib/SetupAPI.Lib which I linked in cmake-gui configure.
Should I have and link /v7/Lib/SetupAPI.Lib instead during the cmake configure?
The QGIS instructions say that "You also need the Microsoft Windows Server(r)
2003 R2 Platform SDK (for setupapi)". On my Windows 7 machine I instead
downloaded the corresponding Windows SDK from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/conf
The installation of Windows SDK components through winsdk_web.exe gave the
error problem as shown in WindowsSDK_installationError.txt
Could a v6.0A/Lib/SetupAPI.Lib be causing the problem with building qgis_core?
Would an SDK for Windows 7 install a /v7/Lib/SetupAPI.Lib instead? How can I
get a Windows 7 SetupAPI.Lib & Windows SDK installed on my system? All windows
SDK installations give me the same error. A google search on Windows 7 SDK
installation problem shows many reports and some suggestions. I tried several
but none seem help. Anyone encountered this problem as well?
Any suggestions to resolve the issue with building qgis_core under Windows 7
are warmly welcomed!
Many thanks, Nico
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