Thanks Christian.
Coming back to my first question. Could you confirm?
1) On a Windows installation, using the .msi packages. Is it required to do
something else? I understand not but want to be sure. I don’t want to start
working and then finding that the installation was not properly completed.
I have missed a Test.exe that validates that the installation is OK as
it exists for Linux although I also understand that if nothing needs to be done
after msi install, then the test would be very simple (if any needed).
Does this means that I can use Gecode on a 100% Windows environment (no
cygwin at all)? Section 2.3.1 indicates in other direction and combines
VSstudio with Cygwin. Is that required or just an option? I understand I have
all the .h* and libs in the installation folder.
The documentation(section 2.6.1) refers to pre-compiled binaries... are
those the .msi or do you refer to the .tar.gz?
Regards
Jose
From: Christian Schulte
Sent: Friday, 15 November, 2013 13:58
To: 'Christian Schulte' ; 'Jose A Magaña' ; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [gecode-users] Installation on Windows w/ or wo/ Cygwin
Sorry that is incorrect. There is indeed some nonsense which I did not write
;-( It'll be removed in the next version of MPG.
C
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Christian Schulte, Professor of Computer Science, KTH, www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/
From: Christian Schulte [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 1:54 PM
To: 'Jose A Magaña'; '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: [gecode-users] Installation on Windows w/ or wo/ Cygwin
Well the only difference is that it lists old version numbers. Otherwise the
explanation is correct. C
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Christian Schulte, Professor of Computer Science, KTH, www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Jose A Magaña
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 1:48 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [gecode-users] Installation on Windows w/ or wo/ Cygwin
Christian,
thanks for your quick reply.
You should then update the MPG file. It is confusing that a file dated
2008-2013© is not up-to-date in such an important topic and that it would be so
easy to properly state on the document.
Again thanks for your help
Best regards
Jose
From: Christian Schulte
Sent: Friday, 15 November, 2013 13:40
To: 'Jose A Magaña' ; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [gecode-users] Installation on Windows w/ or wo/ Cygwin
Hi,
Gecode does not work with cygwin (this has been discussed several times alread
on this mailing list). As explained in MPG you have to install Microsoft Visual
Studio, try the current free version Visual Studio Express 2013 and then
install Gecode with the matching msi. Luckily, the current Visual Studio
version supports both x64 (64 bit) as well as x86 (32 bit), so you can actually
choose which variant of Gecode you want to use with Visual Studio.
Cheers
Christian
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Christian Schulte, Professor of Computer Science, KTH, www.ict.kth.se/~cschulte/
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Jose A Magaña
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 1:30 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gecode-users] Installation on Windows w/ or wo/ Cygwin
Hello all,
I have just started to use Gecode as part of a university course on CSP.
First, congrats for the tool and the amazing work you do in supporting it.
I am trying to install the tool on a Windows 8 system and some doubts have
arised during the process as well as some issues related to Cygwin. I have made
some effort on reading the documentation (Chapter 2 mainly of MGP) and reviewed
some previous questions on this list.
Going to the point:
1) On a Windows installation, using the .msi packages. Is it required to do
something else? I understand not but want to be sure. I don’t want to start
working and then finding that the installation was not properly completed.
I have missed a Test.exe that validates that the installation is OK as
it exists for Linux although I also understand that if nothing needs to be done
after msi install, then the test would be very simple (if any needed).
Does this means that I can use Gecode on a 100% Windows environment (no
cygwin at all)? Section 2.3.1 indicates in other direction and combines
VSstudio with Cygwin. Is that required or just an option? I understand I have
all the .h* and libs in the installation folder.
The documentation(section 2.6.1) refers to pre-compiled binaries... are
those the .msi or do you refer to the .tar.gz?
2) On a Windows installation using cygwin, that I have also attempted. I
have been able to make the install using CC=”gcc” CXX=”g++”.
Everything gets installed, even to the /usr/local folders and the
Test.exe shows everything is working.
I need this to work since the teacher uses a Linux machine for the lab
classes. In addition some scripts are distributed to compile some examples that
I would need to modify during the class.
I cab compile but I have not been able to link.
Here is where I have my doubts. I have read in some old questions to
the list, that you were considering not supporting cygwin with g++/gcc due to
the problems with dynamic linking. The discussions date back to 2008 and 2010.
Is it a supported configuration?
Which additional settings should I add to my linking command?
g++ -o basic -L/usr/local/lib basic.o -lgecodedriver -lgecodesearch
-lgecodeminimodel -lgecodeint -lgecodekernel –lgecodesupport
Thanks in advance for your support.
Jose A. Magaña
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