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  • From: "Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>
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  • Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] "unable to open file for input" at .exe
  • Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:13:33 +0200
  • Organization: GeometryFactory

On Saturday 10 April 2010 19:05:15 A S wrote:
> Thanks Laurent and others for pointing me to the TAU CGAL for Windows site.
> At the bottom of that page I found the CGAL libraries for VC2008 that my
> build needed.
>
> The compile worked. I got a Release dir containing ex_alpha_shapes_2.exe
> and then I went to run it. This is the command line window output: ---
>
> C:\CGAL\CGAL-3.6\examples\Alpha_shapes_2\Release>ex_alpha_shapes_2.exe
> unable to open file for input
>
> C:\CGAL\CGAL-3.6\examples\Alpha_shapes_2\Release>

cd ..
./Release/ex_alpha_shapes_2.exe

Or copy data/ to ./Release

That example, like some in CGAL, incorrectly think that they are run in the
same directory as their cpp files.

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



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