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[Keith Ealanta <>]

Andreas Fabri wrote:
>  wrote:
> > Can anyone give me any advice on how to set-up Visual Studio 2005 to 
> > use CGAL.
> > I'm sure if I can hack at it for a while I can get it to happen, but 
> > hopefully someone out-there has already done this and can make it easy 
> > for me.
> >
> > Ideally, can someone post a nice zipped up minimal project that 
> > compiles VS8?
> >
> > Yours hopefully,
> >
> > Keith Ealanta
>
>
> For VC++ you should install CGAL with the selfextracting archive and not
> use the tar.gz
>
> The cgal.lib is precompiled with VC7. In order to recompile go in
> the directoy CGAL-3.2./src/CGAL, open the vcprof file and click
> on rebuild. The same for Core, and CGALQt, if you need them (and
> have Qt 3 for Windows).
>
> In the examples and demo directory, you find the .vcproj files.
> That is clicking on it and clicking on build solution, should do it.
>
> There is one thing that needs attention for VC8.  Visual 8 now comes 
> with the
> Dinkumware STL implementation. You currently have to disable two 
> checking features
> of this STL In the IDE go to Project-> ... 
> properties->C/C++->Preprocessor and
> add _SECURE_SCL=0 _HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING=0 to "Preprocessor Definitions".
>
> The first define avoids warnings, the second one assertions at runtime.
> Whereas the first one concerns a non portable "improvement" of the STL
> which makes it less "S" (which after all stands for Standard), we work
> on the second one.
>
> best regards,
>
> andreas
Thanks heaps for this.
Once I'm all done I might try to throw together a quick howto you could 
put up somewhere.

One issue I'm having.  I built the libraries (release and debug versions)
When I compile a debug version of one of the examples I get the linker 
warning... (in this case I was building the Nef_2 Simple_Intersection 
example)

simple_intersection.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
__imp___CrtDbgReportW referenced in function "public: class 
std::list<class CGAL::Extended_segment<class CGAL::Gmpz>,class 
std::allocator<class CGAL::Extended_segment<class CGAL::Gmpz> > 
>::_Const_iterator<1> & __thiscall std::list<class 
CGAL::Extended_segment<class CGAL::Gmpz>,class std::allocator<class 
CGAL::Extended_segment<class CGAL::Gmpz> > 
>::_Const_iterator<1>::operator--(void)" 
(??F?$_Const_iterator@$00@?$list@V?$Extended_segment@VGmpz@CGAL@@@CGAL@@V?$allocator@V?$Extended_segment@VGmpz@CGAL@@@CGAL@@@std@@@std@@QAEAAV012@XZ)


I don't get this when I build in release, but of course that rather 
limits my debugging. Am I just doing something dumb or is there some 
other detail I've missed?

Again, many thanks,

Keith Ealanta