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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

Thanks for sharing Bruno.

Sebastien.

Bruno Dutailly wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I recently discovered CGAL, and I plan to use it in my software 
> (Linux/windows QT4).
>
> I managed to compile CGAL with mingw64. This can help someone:
>
> Info: I use the sezero personal build of mingw64.
> Info: path to bin folder containing gcc, g++, mingw32-make, etc binaries 
> must be referenced in your path variable environment.
>
> 1) download boost sources and compile it (I use boost 1.47.0):
>  a) generate b2.exe (jam) by typing in a console "bootstrap.bat mingw"
>  b) type in a console: b2.exe --prefix=<absolute_path_to_boost64> 
> toolset=gcc address-model=64 variant=debug,release link=static,shared 
> threading=multi install
> Before, I tried an external version of boost-jam like described here:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/Building%20Boost
> but bjam.exe failed to build boost.
>
> 2) build CGAL libraries (I use cgal 3.9):
>  a) Use cmake-gui
>  b) before configuring, setup the BOOST_ROOT path variable to you BOOST 
> directory.
>  c) optional (this doesn't work for me): setup the Boost_LIBRARYDIR to 
> your boost\lib dir
>  d) configure
>  e) optional: check demos and examples and configure again
>  f) generate
>  g) type in a console mingw32-make
>  h) if you have troubles with emmintrin.h and intrin.h, you must add a 
> "#include <windows.h>" at the top of the file "all_files.cpp" in the 
> src/ImageIO directory generated by cmake
>
> 3) build demos and examples (if checked in cmake):
>  - type mingw32-make demos
> for me, it doesn't link with boost (even with the 2)c) option), so demos 
> generation failed. I didn't try examples, but I manualy compile an 
> example: circulator
> I used those commands:
> g++ -c circulator_prog1.cpp -frounding-math -I../../include 
> -I../../build/include 
> -I../../../../boost_1_47_0/mingw64/include/boost-1_47 -o circulator_prog1.o
> g++ circulator_prog1.o -L../../build/lib -lCGAL 
> -L../../../../boost_1_47_0/mingw64/lib -lboost_thread-mgw44-mt-1_47 -o 
> circulator_prog1.exe
> where /build is the build folder "where to build binaries" for cmake.
>
> yours
>
> bruno