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[Jeffrey Bush <>]

No, I followed the instructions in the manual (http://www.cgal.org/Manual/latest/doc_html/installation_manual/Chapter_installation_manual.html) which start with how to do them in Windows. Maybe you should link to the page you just gave from the manual?

However I did most of the things listed there, including building QGLViewer myself. One major difference was I didn't set all the environmental variables but instead changed them necessary paths in the CMAKE GUI.

I may retry tomorrow.

Jeff

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Andreas Fabri <> wrote:

Did you follow the instructions given at
https://www.cgal.org/windows_installation.html

Concerning the script cgal_create_CMakeLists,  you are right that
it is not a .bat file, but a shell script, but this can be used
when you have cygwin on your windows machine.

andreas

On 31/01/2013 10:17, Jeffrey Bush wrote:

Another note. When trying to get the AABB demo to work in VS the program
generated cannot be run (cannot be started correct 0xC000007B - bad
image) . It can't even be debugged. I have used Qt before on this
computer and the QGLViewer demos I tried all worked. The AABB_examples
all worked as well (they have no GUI though). I have tried changing many
of the build parameters in the generated VS project to no avail.

It seems as though Windows / MSVS support should be listed as "partial"
until all these issues can be worked out (an installer that places files
in a place that other scripts which have bugs fail to use, not including
the Boost libs even when CMAKE successfully detects them, unable to run
a demo). Tomorrow I will try on a Linux machine and hopefully have more
luck.

Also, you give no help in the documentation on how to create a new
program that uses CGAL on a Windows machine. Everything depends on
running the shell script cgal_create_CMakeLists which cannot be done on
Windows.

Jeff


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Jeffrey Bush <

<mailto:>> wrote:

    Thanks. However, just so you know, the CGAL installer installs to
    Program Files (x86) on Windows x64.

    I ended up getting around it by building just the examples and demos
    I wanted. However in the process of building all of this I have
    identified more problems. The boost libraries are not added to the
    import list in the resulting project, only the include directories
    are added. Each project needs to have the boot libraries manually
    entered. The CMAKE GUI shows the boost libraries it will add, with
    all the right path information, however these don't end up in the
    resulting VS project.

    Thanks again - although I am still having problems getting things to
    work just right, it kind of makes sense that a library as massive as
    this takes time to even get it going.

    Jeff


    On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Laurent Rineau
    (CGAL/GeometryFactory) <

    <mailto:laurent.rineau@cgal.org>> wrote:

        Le mercredi 30 janvier 2013 16:23:22 Jeffrey Bush a écrit :
         > Hi,
         >
         > When trying to build the CGAL demos CMAKE fails. If doing
        everything
         > besides the demos (core, ImageIO, examples) it works fine.
        Not all of the
         > demos cause errors, but most (~25 do). They all seem to be
        about not being
         > able to access certain paths, which are paths that are like
        C:/.../C:/.../
         > - notice it trying to re-root itself there? It shouldn't be
        doing that.
         > Running with CMAKE_USE_RELATIVE_PATHS does not help.
         >
         > An example error message that is shown here and the entire
        cmake log is
         > attached.
         >
         > == Generating build files for demos ==
         >
         > -- Configuring demo in demo/C:/Program Files
        (x86)/CGAL-4.1/demo/AABB_tree
         >
         > Requested component: Qt4
         >
         > Requested component: MPFR
         >
         > Requested component: GMP
         >
         > Found QGLViewer:
         > C:/Qt/libQGLViewer-2.3.17/QGLViewer/release64/QGLViewer2.lib
         >
         > CMake Error at C:/Program Files (x86)/CMake
         > 2.8/share/cmake-2.8/Modules/Qt4Macros.cmake:111 (file):
         >
         > file Internal CMake error when trying to open file:
        C:/Program Files
         >
         > (x86)/CGAL-4.1/demo/C:/Program Files
         >
         > (x86)/CGAL-4.1/demo/AABB_tree/MainWindow_moc.cpp_parameters
        for writing.

        Do not use a sub-directory of "C:\Program Files (x86)" as binary
        directory for
        CMake. That causes a bug in Qt4 CMake macros.

        Anyway, you should compile CGAL in your user directory, and not
        in the system
        directory "C:\Program Files (x86)". Note that you can at the
        end, *install*
        the compiled CGAL libraries there.

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


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