Building on Windows with NMake

If you use ​Microsoft Visual C++ (7.1 or later) compiler, you can build GEOS using ​NMAKE program and provided makefile.vc​ files.

Configure

Building from release source package (e.g. geos-3.3.5.tar.bz2) or SVN development branch trunk requires to run autogen.bat​ script to generate a couple of header files:

autogen.bat

Building from SVN development branch requires to generate the geos_svn_revision.h file with POSIX shell script:

tools\svn_repo_revision.sh

Notice, tools\svn_repo_revision.sh is a Bash script, so you need Bash some means to run Bash scripts on Windows.

Alternatively, you can create geos_svn_revision.h file manually in the top directory of the source tree:

• In the root directory of your copy of SVN trunk:

  svn info
  

• Locate line starting with Revision:

  Revision: 3704
  

• Use the revision number (in the output above it is 3704) to create geos_svn_revision.h:

  echo #define GEOS_SVN_REVISION 3704 > geos_svn_revision.h
  

Build

• Optimised configuration

nmake /f makefile.vc

where 1400 is version number of Visual C++ compiler, here ​Visual C++ 8.0 from ​Visual Studio 2005. Ssupported versions are Visual C++ 7.1 (1310), 8.0 (1400), 9.0 (1500) and 10.0 (1600).

• Debug configuration

nmake /f makefile.vc BUILD_DEBUG=YES

Check top section of nmake.opt file to learn about available options for NMake run.

Test

Currently, GEOS unit tests package is not configured to build with NMake.