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[Laurent Rineau <>]

On Tuesday 15 July 2008 16:02:34 BBB HHH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have not installed SP1 for VS 2003, but i tested with VS 2005. In debug
> mode with VS 2005, the project compiled successfully but the application
> can not be launched, an error message "The application has failed to start
> because the application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the
> application may fix this problem". In release mode, it compiles
> successfully and the application launches but it is not interesting for me
> to use release mode since i can not debug my source code.

Most probably you are linking some piece of code compiled in debug mode with 
other parts in release mode. If you use third part libraries, you should 
verify that you are linking with debug version of them.

> I tried several changes in the project options, like using the /Zm option
> but the result is the same. I add that the error message "error result
> returned from 'cl.exe'." comes with an error dilaog box : "A buffer overrun
> has been detected!   Program: c:\program files\...\vc7\bin\cl.exe"

It seems that the linker itself has crashed. VS 2003 is quite old (at least 
five years old, I think!) and buggy. It will no longer be supported by 
CGAL-3.4, the next release of CGAL, because CGAL code triggers 
compiler/linker bugs to frequently.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
Engineer at GeometryFactory
http://www.geometryfactory.com/