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["Wesley Smith" <>]

Thanks for the help everyone!! Success :))))))
cheers,
wes

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Fernando Cacciola
<>
 wrote:
> 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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