[gecode-users] Linking to Gecode with Microsoft Visual C++

[Guido Tack]

Hi everyone!

We had a bit of trouble trying to link to the binary Gecode  
distribution from a Microsoft Visual Studio C++ project.  First of  
all, here's what you have to set up in the properties dialog of your  
"Solution":
  * Configuration Properties, C++, General, set the Additional Include  
Directories to <Program Files>\Gecode
  * Configuration Properties, Linker, General, set the Additional  
Library Directories to <Program Files>\Gecode\lib
  * Configuration Properties, Linker, Input, set the Additional  
Dependencies to GecodeSupport.lib GecodeKernel.lib GecodeSearch.lib  
etc. (all the Gecode libraries that you want to link against)

That should do the trick, except that only a release build works  
properly at the moment.  If you build your project using a Debug  
configuration instead, your program will crash with "bad alloc" errors.

Apparently, inlining doesn't work too well when linking against  
different libraries (i.e., linking Gecode with /MD while linking your  
program with /MDd).  So, for the time being, you will have to compile  
your program as a Release build, or compile your own version of Gecode  
with debug turned on.  We're looking into this issue, and we'll try to  
produce (optimized) libraries that can be used in a Debug build for  
the next version of Gecode.

Cheers,
	Guido