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Kevin Myers wrote:
> Dear libtiff maintainers,
>  
> I've just spent most of the past two days struggling with getting 
> libtiff to build successfully under Windows.  During the process, I came 
> across what I believe to be a number of deficiencies in the present 
> source code that could be addressed in order to simplify builds under 
> Windows.  Following below are a number of specific suggestions that I 
> believe would be helpful in this regard.  Note that I have successfully 
> built libtiff under Windows using the MSVC compiler with all of the 
> changes in place that are suggested below.
>  
> I hope that someone will be able to implement these changes.  There are 
> both standard libtiff and GnuWin32 specific issues.  I believe that 
> addressing these issues would make builds under Windows a lot easier, 
> especially for folks like me who don't do this kind of thing on an 
> everyday basis.

Kevin,

The libtiff maintainers do not maintain the GnuWin32 builds for libtiff,
so we are unlikely to be able to help with this aspect.

I think the proposed values for tif_config.h.vc could use some justification.

Why should we extend the build to build stuff in the contrib directory?  It
is all quite non-essential.

In general the suggested changes should be submitted via the libtiff Bugzilla
to improve the likelyhood of them being considered carefully.  I'd suggest you
segment the changes into 2-3 bugs.  One for all the tools include file
changes for instance.

Best regards,
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