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["Segall, Edward" <>]

Thank you for clearing that up. This restriction was not clear to me,
because when I read in INSTALL.win32.txt: 

        "Note that you can alternatively install CGAL with the Microsoft
compilers using
Cygwin. For installation on Unix systems and on Cygwin, please see the
INSTALL
document."

I did not realize that an installation done using Cygwin would be
limited to using the Microsoft compilers from the command line. 

What do you recommend for a user who needs to do development in the
Visual IDE, and also create release builds from the command line? I have
been working through the issues myself, but now that I know this
(installing from the command line and then building from the IDE) is a
non-recommended use, I would like to hear your suggestions before going
on at length about mine. 

Thank you,

--Ed



-----Original Message-----
From: Laurent Rineau 
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Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 5:03 PM
To: 

Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] CGAL auto-link and gmp vs MS Visual C++

On Friday 12 October 2007 20:47:29 Segall, Edward wrote:
> When I install CGAL 3.3.1 on a Windows machine under Cygwin using 
> install_cgal (rather than using the precompiled installer) and I 
> select the Visual C++ 8.0 compiler, it builds just one version of the 
> CGAL library. This version is named CGAL.lib. When I then try to build

> an application using this installation, the auto-link mechanism causes

> a link failure because there is no library CGAL-vc80-mt.lib.

If you used install_cgal and Cygwin to compile CGAL, then you should use
nmake and makefiles to compile your applications. It seems that you
tried to compile a vcproj with Visual, using that CGAL installation.

> [...] Can you advise?

You should tell use why you are using install_cgal, instead of the
precompiled CGAL shipped with the Windows installer. For unknown
reasons, you have decided to use CGAL under Windows in a non recommanded
way.

Best regards,

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