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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

mq_wei wrote:
> Dear all,
> I am a newer of CGAL and have never used the cross platform libraries 
> like cgal. I have some questions as listed below:
> (1) I found in every examples, there is a cmakelists.txt file. Does it 
> mean I must write a cmakelists.txt file for each my project?
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Correct.

> (2) I have installed the CGAL in VS2008 successfully, and can run the 
> demos and examples after complilation.
>      But how can i write my cgal codes in vs2008? Does it follow like 
> this: first, creat a project; secondly, add files(.h and .cpp formats); 
> Once those two steps are done, i build all solution, but it cannot find 
> the header files of cgal. Does it mean i should write a cmakelists.txt 
> file and use cmake to compile to generate a .sln file? Many thanks for 
> your reply.
I am not that familiar with VS but from what I understand, you need to
write a CMakeLists.txt and generate a .sln with cmake and that's it
(you don't need to create a new project and so on because this is the
purpose of using cmake for that).

Note that if your project is not too complicated, you can use the script
cgal_create_cmake_scripts in the scripts directory. Note that to run it,
you'll need sh ( i.e. using a cygwin or Mingw environment). If you
don't have such an environment, then you can try to modify an existing
CMakeLists.txt as a start point.


Sebastien.

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> Best regards,
> Mengqiong Wei
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