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["Max" <>]

Thanks for your reply.

> I do not recommend to install after the compilation. This for example
prevents
> from having several version of CGAL as the same time (different releases,
or 32-
> and 64-bit versions)
> 
> If you choose to install the library, you need to update CGAL_DIR and PATH
> environment variable related to CGAL.
 
I agree. And it will then be natural to say the addition of such
recommendation and its rationale into the tutorial would be beneficial.

> > I still have 2 questions:
> >
> > 1. The VS project created by cmake triggers a process of 'install' which
> > seems just copies the include and lib files from the CGAL source folder
to a
> > more 'common' place, defaulting to c:\Program Files\CGAL, resembling the
> > 'normal' behavior of other windows application. That makes sense. My
> > question, however, is - Now that the client of CGAL would then get an
> > impression that CGAL 'service' has been deployed in this default folder,
why
> > are they required to add additional include/lib directory pointers for
the
> > VS IDE to those folders of gmp and taucs which still reside in the
original
> > CGAL source folder?
> >
> > I'm not very sure whether I understand the intention of the CGAL
developers
> > correctly.
> >
> > 2. When I tried to run one of the demo program from the windows console,
I
> > got the following message:
> > " This demo requires geomview, which is not present on this platform"
> 
> As written in the tutorial, setting environment variables.

1. I've given the tutorial another read, and the builds another try,
following the tutorial. I believe I haven't missed anything for the 32bit
variation. One difference of the environment is that I'm using VS 2008SP1
instead of VS 2010. (Of course I'm using the VS2008 version of Qt
installation accordingly)
I guess that mustn't be the rub though.

2. It seems to me neither your reply nor the tutorial answers the question 1
of my previous message. :-(

3. If you know what exact mistake I'm making, more specific help would be
greatly appreciated.

4. Another problem I found this time is that, during the build of
libQGLViewer, the command 'nmake sub-QGLViewer' doesn't work while just
'nmake' does.

For your kind information, here's an excerpt of my env settings:

BOOST_INCLUDEDIR=c:\Lib\boost_1_49_0
BOOST_LIBRARYDIR=c:\Lib\boost_1_49_0\stage\lib
CGAL_DIR=C:\lib\CGAL-4.0
QGLVIEWERROOT=c:\Lib\libQGLViewer-2.3.17\QGLViewer\release
QTDIR=C:\Qt\4.8.2

Path=...;c:\Lib\boost_1_49_0\stage\lib;C:\Qt\4.8.2\bin;c:\Lib\libQGLViewer-2
.3.17\QGLViewer\release;c:\Lib\libQGLViewer-2.3.17\QGLViewer\debug;c:\lib\CG
AL-4.0\build\bin

Thanks for your patience. 


Best,
Max