= HOWTO build Rave with Visual Studio =

This HOWTO desribes the minimum-effort approach for building Rave using Visual Studio 2005 Professional. Later this will be tested and if necessary adapted for use with the free Express version of Visual Studio also.

== Prerequisites ==

* A working installation of Visual Studio 2005 with C++ support
* (optional) For the Java bindings you will need a working installation of a JDK

== Preparation ==

Rave has two principal dependencies: Boost and CLHEP. Both packages can be freely downloaded from the respective webpages.

* Download and install the boost binary package from http://www.boost-consulting.com/products/free
* Set the BOOST_PATH environment variable to the chosen installation directory (there has to be a boost/math subdirectory at the location given by BOOST_PATH)