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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On Tuesday 16 February 2010 17:37:46 

 wrote:
> Hello All,
> I am a newbie so hope you don't mind if I ask a primary question.
> I am using windows XP (professional) , visual studio 9.0 and can't get cgal
> installed !!!
> I am following the instructions given here:
> 
> http://acg.cs.tau.ac.il/cgal-at-tau/installing-cgal-and-related-programs-on
> -windows
> 
> everything seems to be fine and I can configure/generate using cmake . but
>  when I try to make the solution (CGAL.sln) visual studio gives me millions
>  of error, most of them are like:
> -------------------------------------
> 137>C:\CGAL\CGAL-3.5.1\auxiliary\gmp\include\mpfr.h(280) : error C2061:
>  syntax error : identifier 'intmax_t'

Boost-1.42 has a sort of bug that triggers compilation problems within MPFR 
when Visual Studio is used. The easiest solution is to downgrade to 
Boost-1.41.

-- 
Laurent Rineau, PhD
R&D Engineer at GeometryFactory           http://www.geometryfactory.com/
Release Manager of the CGAL Project       http://www.cgal.org/