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 sources package, should not require any configuration step.

Building from SVN development branch trunk to run autogen.bat​ script to generate a couple of header files (note: autogen.bat is available in SVN only).

autogen.bat

Build

• Optimised configuration

nmake /f makefile.vc MSVC_VER=1400

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 MSVC_VER=1400 DEBUG=1

Test

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

Install

TODO