Recently, I’ve been asked for some help in building PROJ.4 library for Windows CE systems, like Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC. So, I decided to write down all steps required to get this task done with success.
Today, Nenad StefanoviÄ announced new release of Windows Template Library - the best robust GUI toolkit for all versions of Windows operating system, for C++ programmers:
This is the best release of WTL yet (well, of course it is, why would we release it otherwise ;-)
New features incldued in WTL 8.0:
You can download WTL 8.0 at the project page - http://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/.
In the March 2006, when I was working in Taxus SI Ltd. company, I started porting the PROJ.4 library to Windows CE platform. I checkouted the source code of PROJ.4 library from its CVS repository and applied changes required to build it with the eVC++ 4.0 compiler.
At the end of March 2006 I announced first results and sent big patch to the proj@lists.maptools.org mailing list. During next months the Windows CE port was waiting for someone interested to test and use it.
I’ve just uploaded sample project files for VC++ 8.0 for Windows CE platform on GDAL/OGR CVS repository. So, now it’s possible to build OGR port for Windows CE using VC++ 8.0 - latest C++ compiler from Microsoft. For more details I suggest to take read README file located in wince directory on CVS. I also invite you to read announcement about Windows CE port of OGR I posted about two weeks ago.
Remember, you need VC++ installed from Visual Studio Standard Edition or Visual Studio Professional Edition. Unfortunately, free Express Edition won’t work. Here is detailed comparison of Visual Studio editions
After 22 weeks ;-) of the initial post I’m very glad to announce the first release of GDAL/OGR port for Windows CE.
Two days ago I commited all files and changes to the official GDAL CVS repository.
Recently, when I was roistering on Mike Hall’s Blog I found a page on which Mike lists all MSDN Channel 9 Embedded and Mobile videos in one place.
Mike announces new Chris Muench video which currently is in the MSDN Channel 9 queue:
I was talking with Chris Muench from Siemens a few days ago, we recorded a video for MSDN Channel 9 on Direct3D programming - one of the comments Chris makes in the video is how “new” developers are only being taught the higher level development languages (Java/C#/VB) without knowing lower level languages which bring you closer to the hardware and also help you better understand what’s happening in the system.
After Microsoft released Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition developers started to find a way how they can use Windows Template Library with that free IDE and compiler. There were conducted many investigations. The results can be found on WTL or MSDN forums so as you can see the answer is Yes, you can use WTL with VC++ 2005 Express Edition. Great!
So, to make the solution available to more WTL users Baryon Lee has published a very nice article - Using WTL with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition - in which he explains complete procedure of how to install and use WTL with VC++ 2005 Express Edition.
Note: Here you can find Windows Template Library Shared Source Licensing Program
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