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)