Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of CLHEPwithVC8

Timestamp:

Nov 8, 2007, 1:30:35 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

fmos

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CLHEPwithVC8

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+__This is a draft__
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+= HOWTO build CLHEP with Visual Studio 2005 ==
+
+CLHEP is officially documented to build with VC7.1 but the switch to VC8 requires a little know-how to get the build steps right. This is because the VC8 compiler has a few features namely to prevent misuse or errorprone use of iterators, which render the CLHEP unusable.
+
+== Prerequisites ==
+
+To successfully compile CLHEP you will need
+ * A working istallation of Visual Studio 2005
+ * A CYGWIN setup including `autoconf`, `automake`, `make` and `tar` packages
+
+== Prepare the build environment ==
+
+To provide the CLHEP build scripts with the necessary information, insert the following line just before the `bash --login -i` line in the `Cygwin.bat` file found in the base directory of your CYGWIN installation:
+
+  {{{call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"}}}
+
+Create an installation directory for the CLHEP libraries. I suggest to use `C:\clhep` and the following steps will rely on this choice.
+
+== Download CLHEP ==
+
+ * Download the latest source package from http://proj-clhep.web.cern.ch/proj-clhep/ 
+ * Move the downloaded file into your CYGWIN `var/tmp` directory usually located at `C:\cygwin\var\tmp`
+ * Enter the CYGWIN environment (by double-clicking the Cygwin symbol on your desktop)
+
+== Unpack, configure and build CLHEP ==
+
+The following steps will build a debug and a release version of the CLHEP library.
+
+Execute the following commands:
+
+ * `mkdir clhep; cd clhep`
+ * `tar xzf /var/tmp/clhep-*-src.tgz`
+ * `cd *; cd CLHEP`
+ * `mkdir debug; cd debug`
+ * `../configure --prefix=/cygdrive/c/clhep/debug`
+ * `make AM_CXXFLAGS="-Ehsc -nologo -GR -MDd -ZI -D_HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING=0 -D_SECURE_SCL=0"`
+ * `make install`
+ * `cd ..; mkdir release; cd release`
+ * `../configure --prefix=/cygdrive/c/clhep`
+ * `make AM_CXXFLAGS="-Ehsc -nologo -GR -MD -D_HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING=0 -D_SECURE_SCL=0"`
+ * `make install`
+
+If in the previous steps you have chosen an installation directory other than `C:\clhep`, please change the `--prefix=` parameters accordingly.
+
+You now have a ready-to-rock version of CLHEP installed on your system and are ready to proceed with [wiki:InstallationForVisualStudio building Rave] and of course you can skip the step of downloading the precompiled CLHEP package.