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[Andreas Fabri <>]

Hi Jeffrey,

With which version of the VC++ compiler does this happen?
And can you indicate for which example or demo coming
with CGAL you encounter this problem.

I ask as I can't reproduce it with VC11, neither for
examples/Polyhedron nor for demos/Polyhedron

Best regards,

Andreas


On 22/04/2014 18:35, Jeffrey Bush wrote:
> Another problem with MSVC / Visual Studio is the Intellisense compiler always
> fails during auto-linking, which makes Intellisense never work if you have
> imported a CGAL header. Since it will never be linking (it only "compiles")
> I think the best solution is to prevent it from auto-linking ever. Two
> solutions below work equally well and it is mostly up to taste which to use:
>
> include/CGAL/auto_link/auto_link.h@85:
> -       #ifndef CGAL_NO_AUTOLINK
> +       #if !defined(CGAL_NO_AUTOLINK) && !defined(__INTELLISENSE__)
>
> or somewhere in some config header (before any auto-linking):
> +       #if defined(__INTELLISENSE__) && !defined(CGAL_NO_AUTOLINK)
> +       #define CGAL_NO_AUTOLINK
> +       #endif
>
> After that I am able to use Intellisense with CGAL. Note that in the future
> additional Intellisense problems may come up and there seems to be no good
> way to test for them, so you will have to wait for users to complain. But
> basically anything that checks defines related to linking will have
> problems.
>
>
>
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