[Gvsig_english] JNI bindings and system binaries

[Benjamin Ducke]

Dear all,

I am currently looking into how to compile binaries and JNI
wrappers for platform-dependent binaries (GDAL,PROJ.4, etc.).
I have some questions:

1. I am a bit unsure whether to use the JNI bindings from
trunk or the 3D extension' versions. Are those version
going to be merged into trunk again sometime soon?
Does the current trunk version already support GDAL 1.6.3?

2. What's in the "libjni-addo" project? The same bindings
also seem to be in "libjni-gdal/main/java/org/addo"?

2. If I look into ""libjni-gdal/main/java/org/gvsig/jogr", I see
OGR vector data driver functions in there. Is this what
gvSIG currently uses to manage shapefiles? Or is this just
some experimental code?

3. The compilation instructions for jgdal, jmrsid etc.state 
that Visual C is needed on Linux. 
Is that because the native libraries  were also compiled 
using Visual C? Or is there another reason?
I am asking because I'd like to compile everything with MinGW.
If I have to use Visual C: which version and is there a free
version available?

4. Regarding Mac OS X, I noticed that there are some Mac specific
projects in trunk: libjni-gdal-macosx, libjni-mrsid-macosx, ...
Are those still needed on the Mac?

Any help will be much appreciated!

Best regards,

Ben


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