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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le mardi 08 mars 2011 18:56:50, DannyM a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> is it possible to generate shared or dynamic libraries of CGAL for Windows
> OS ? In the installation manual I found only "Under Windows we only
> support the static versions of the Cgal libraries". Why only static libs
> supportet ?

So that a DLL is usable, on Windows, the developers of the library need to 
use 
the special attribute "__declspec(dllexport)". See the documentation:
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a90k134d.aspx

As for CGAL libraries, we have not done that work so far.


Why do you need to compile CGAL as a DLL? It might be a motivation for us to 
try implementing that support for CGAL-3.9 (next release CGAL-3.8 is about to 
be published and can not longer be developped).

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