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["Laurent Rineau (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Le mercredi 09 mars 2011 17:39:14, DannyM a écrit :
> Yes of course, and I do so, but the problem is, that I cannot transfer the
> DLL to another Windows PC, because the CGAL lib is created under Windows
> witch Visual Studio and there are some strange dependencies....if there
> where a CGAL DLL  I can transfer such DLL and can create a new DLL with
> CGAL and JNI on the other PC which should work fine.

No. The "strange dependencies" you refere to are the C and C++ runtimes (also 
named libc and libc++ on other platformes).

If you compile anything in Debug mode, then you will depend on the 
MSVCRTd.dll, that is distributed with Visual Studio. Then, the machine you 
transfer to must have the version of Visual Studio as you, to have the same 
version of MSCVRTd.dll. If you compile a C++ program/library, then you need 
MSVCP in Debug mode, same version as yours.

If you compile in Release mode, that is easier, because various version of 
the 
C and C++ runtimes as usually distributed in all recent versions of Windows.

If a specific *release* runtime is not on a machine, you can download it from 
microsoft.com. See for example the first results of this Google query:

  http://www.google.com/search?q=Microsoft+Redistributable+Package

The *debug* C and C++ runtimes are not distributed for free by Microsoft. 
They 
are only shipped with Visual Studio. I think the rational is that one are not 
supposed to distribute debug applications or debug libraries.

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