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[Philipp Moeller <>]

daisy 
<>
 writes:

> Hi,
>     I know that Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 are supported by CGAL4.0
> according to the Installation Manual
> , and the previous versions, such as CGAL3.4, support VS2005. So, this is
> the problem? 

I don't know. Even if your code is broken for some other reason it is
unlikely that most CGAL packages would compile with VS2005.

> The higher version CGAL4.0 doesn's support VS2005? 

Exactly.

> What about
> MinGW? It can make the CGAL4.0 support VS2005 or it shoud replace VS2005? I
> am a new to cgal, so I have so many questions.

MinGW provides a UNIX environment along with the common compiler
tool-chain for Windows boxes. This is orthogonal to CGAL. Either get
MinGW to replace VS2005 or get a newer version of VS. I wont post links
to the Express Version of Visual Studio, but your favorite search engine
should get you there.

HTH,
Philipp Moeller