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Subject: Re: [Tiff] Building Libtiff in Visual Studio under Windows?
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Steven Lehar wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble building Libtiff in Windows, both on a win32 XP machine,
> and also on a 64-bit Vista machine. I have the same problem on both
> machines. Maybe I'm making a simple mistake. Can somebody help me?
>
> I downloaded the Windoz binaries from
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tiff.htm (maybe this is the problem
> for my 64-bit Vista machine, although it SHOULD work, but thats why I tried
> again with my win32 XP machine) and installed it at
>
> (making sure to have a "TestImage.tif" in the local folder). But when I
> tried to build, I got:
>
> Linking...
> LINK: Fatal error LNK1104: Cannot open file 'C:\Program Files
> (x86)\GnuWin32\lib\libtiff.lib;'
>
> What am I doing wrong?

You have downloaded a library built by GCC for use with GCC.  Visual 
Studio can not use GCC libraries.

Bob
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