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["Fernando Cacciola" <>]

Ophir Setter wrote:
> Did you compile boost for vc 9.0? I got the _Container_base error using
> boost not compile in vc 9.0 and not because of CGAL. Anyway, I now run CGAL
> and boost on VC9 with no problems.

_Container_base is part of the MSVC CRT, so you'll get this error whenever you 
link against a library compiled with an earlier version of VC++.

As Andreas Fabri mentioned already, CGAL does not depend on any Boost library, 
only header files, so you don't need to compile Boost for CGAL unless you try 
those demos which use Boost.ProgramOptions.

OTOH, CGAL-3.3.1 was released before VC90 and you can't just rebuild it because 
of the encoding of the compiler version in the library mangling used by the 
autolinking feature.

To build CGAL3.3.1 under Visual Studio 2008 please unzip the attached patch 
right on the CGAL root directory, then launch the new CGAL_90.sln solution file 
to build CGAL on VS2008.

Best

Fernando Cacciola
GeometryFactory

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