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[Kyle Simmons <>]

Good day!

I'm wondering if anyone on the mailing list would be available or interested in offering tutoring/consulting services to work with me on CGAL?

The initial support need is simply to get CGAL working on my Windows 7 workstation (Xeon E5-2650) with MS Visual Studio 2013.

The OS and chipset supports 64-bit, but for my projects I am constrained to 32-bit.

I've spent the last 2 months trying to get CGAL working on my PC, and it has been both an educational as well as humbling experience 😊.

Programming for a given API (e.g. DirectX, OpenGL, OpenFlight, etc) has never been a problem for me,

but configuring a library, especially one that has to be compiled for the given architecture and specific version of VS, turns out to be my weakness.

So I need to take a step back and relearn much of what I've forgotten about compiling libraries.

In the meantime, I'm hoping to find a kind soul who could offer guidance and mentorship so that I can get my project on track while I strengthen my foundation in library compilation.

My project involves performing boolean unions on large sets of closed convex meshes.

I've proven that my algorithm works in 3DS Max using their internal scripting tools and python.

However, Max has poor memory allocation, and cannot handle the shear bulk of geometry that needs to be processed.

So I was very excited when I discovered CGAL last Fall and how I might be able to use it to complete my project.

I've actually restarted the process of installing CGAL from scratch a few times using the CGAL Windows Installation workflow, and each time I came across a different blocker.

The main issues have been getting Boost, GMP and QT to behave well enough to allow me to start the CGAL installation.

The last two attempts involved problems with the CGAL installation itself that has more to do with my lack of understanding than the tool probably.

Which is why I think I need more hands-on mentoring.

The list of questions from StackOverflow below were very helpful moving forward, but as I overcame each issue, a new one appeared.

And while I'm still far from being able to run CGAL,  I'm out of time to continue debugging.

If you're interested and willing, please feel free to contact me.  Though my budget is limited, I'm not asking this to be gratis.

My information is below.  And thanks for your consideration.

Have a great day, and happy programming.

Sincerely,

Kyle Simmons

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45039071/run-cgal-demo-on-visual-studio-2013

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46362196/cmake-unable-to-find-the-requested-boost-libraries

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46408685/cmake-could-not-find-the-following-boost-librariesboost-thread-boost-system

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43870280/vtk-msvc14-installation-fails-when-building-install

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48659888/build-cgal-using-visual-studio-cmake

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48619873/compile-cgal-library-using-visual-studio-on-win-7

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47124671/cmake-boost-libraries-not-found-windows7

Even attempted to translate this... 

https://qiita.com/pikattoo/items/bcd6fb631868af512bff