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

[Christian Schulte]

As a slight addition: first, our thanks to Jan Kelbel, for helping us to
reproduce and analyze the bug.

Then, in 3.0 Gecode will use auto-linking with MSVC: so it is sufficient to
give the library directory. The respective libraries will be found
automatically by the linker.

Christian

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Christian Schulte, www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/


-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at gecode.org [mailto:users-bounces at gecode.org] On Behalf
Of Guido Tack
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 4:46 PM
To: gecode users list
Subject: [gecode-users] Linking to Gecode with Microsoft Visual C++

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

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