Windows build with cmake:

Author: David Burken

Last modified: 21 February 2013

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Environment variables
I put my build environment in a separate file that I source. I do this because I have more than one workspace, i.e. osgeo, geoeye, geoeye-dev. Usually I'll put this in D:\dev directory. Contents of ossim-vs10.bat file:

:: File: ossim-vs10.bat

:: Forward slashes for use with cmake and nmake.
set OSSIM_DEV_HOME_FS=D:/dev/vs10_x86

:: Backward Slash windows things.  We'll use MS for MicroSoft.
set OSSIM_DEV_HOME=D:\dev\vs10_x86

set OSSIM_DEPENDENCIES=%OSSIM_DEV_HOME%\local
set OSSIM_HOME=%OSSIM_DEV_HOME%\ossim
set OSSIM_PREFS_FILE=%OSSIM_DEV_HOME%\ossim-prefs
set QTDIR=D:\Qt3.2
set PATH=D:\cmake\cmake-2.8.10.2-win32-x86\bin;%OSSIM_DEV_HOME%\build\bin;%OSSIM_DEV_HOME%\local\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.4.22\i586-pc-win32;D:\Qt\4.8.4\bin;%PATH%

Make a workspace:

Top level, this is OSSIM_DEV_HOME:
D:\> mkdir dev\vs10_x64

ossim build dir:
D:\> cd dev\vs10_x64 D:\dev\vs10_x64> mkdir build

Sandbox for 3rd party dependencies:
D:\dev\vs10_x64> mkdir deps

Building

Source the bat file for environment variables.
D:\> D:\dev\ossim-vs10.bat

First time through check out code. Note I don't like to check out the whole trunk so I do pieces.

I always build geos, libtiff, geotiff, gdal from the latest. You don't have to, it's up to you. Most of these you can get from yum but I find the code is usually way behind.

NOTE: Things I build with cmake I use an "out of source" build so I put in a sub directory of the package.

geos:
Needed by ossim.

mkdir %OSSIM_DEV_HOME%\geos
cd %OSSIM_DEV_HOME%\geos

Get code from svn or optionally download a release.

svn co ​http://svn.osgeo.org/geos/trunk geos-svn

Make a cmake config script

xemacs geos-cmake-config.bat Use whatever editor you want, notepad, whatever...

Contents of script:

::---
:: File: geos-cmake-config.bat
::---

:: Development root dir:
set dev=%OSSIM_DEV_HOME_FS%

cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" ^
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ^
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=%dev%/deps ^
../geos-svn

mkdir build "out of source" build dir
cd build

Run the cmake command to set up the build system:

..\geos-cmake-config.sh

Make:

nmake

Install to sandbox:
$ nmake install

End of GEOS