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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

This is very strange, I just tried on Windows7x64 and it is working fine.

Could you try again to be sure it is related to the installation of CGAL?
(backup you path env before trying)

Sebastien.

On 05/27/2013 05:09 PM, Manfred Kuhnkies wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just encountered a problem with the installer of CGAL 4.2 on Windows 7 x64
> concerning the windows environment variable PATH. CGAL Installer replaced PATH
> by auxiliary\gmp\lib instead of adding the latter to PATH.
>
> What I did:
> I went through installer options and changed Install directory to a different
> drive letter (F:\cgal-4.2) and allowed the installer to ADD gmp-lib path to
> PATH.
>
> What I noticed:
> When setup was completed, some things on my system were very strange: I colud
> no longer call some system programs from command line which had been possible
> just minutes before. I checked my environment variables and found PATH was set
> to:
> PATH=F:\CGAL-4.2\auxiliary\gmp\lib
>
> (please note that PATH had been several hundred characters just before,
> include C:\Windows\system32 to start with.)
>
> When I uninstalled CGAL, PATH was empty afterwards. It will take me some time
> to fix my system... :-(
>
> I'd appreciate if you could check and maybe fix the cgal 4.2 install script.
>
> Best regards
>    Manfred
>
> P.S.: I found that the installer suggests to use the folder "C:\Program Files
> \cgal-4.2" when I choose to install 32-bit libraries. The folder "C:\Program
> Files" is meant to host 64-bit applications on x64 versions of windows.
> Microsoft suggests the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)" to install 32-bit
> applications on a Windows x64 system.