[PPL-devel] PPL and Visual Studio?

[Thomas Reps]

Thanks, Roberto.  One of my students thinks
it may be possible to compile under cygwin to
create a dynamically linked library that can
be linked with a Visual Studio program.

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roberto Bagnara [mailto:bagnara at cs.unipr.it] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2006 2:05 AM
> To: reps at cs.wisc.edu
> Cc: ppl-devel at cs.unipr.it; Denis Gopan
> Subject: Re: [PPL-devel] PPL and Visual Studio?
> 
> 
> Thomas Reps wrote:
> > Do you know if anyone has ported PPL to compile under
> > Visual Studio C++ under Windows?  Is there anything
> > that would stand in the way of doing this?
> 
> Dear Thomas and Denis,
> 
> I know people is using the PPL under Windows using
> Cygwin and MinGW, but I have no information about
> compiling the PPL with Visual Studio C++.
> The PPL is written in standard C++ so, if
> Visual Studio C++ implements a large enough portion
> of the standard ---something I don't know---,
> it should be doable.  It would probably not be trivial:
> the configuration file should be written (I guess)
> without the help of the automatic configuration script;
> likewise for the automatic generation of make files.
> If you need help, please let us know (notice though
> that we do not use Windows and have no access to
> any recent version of Visual Studio C++).
> All the best,
> 
>      Roberto
> 
> -- 
> Prof. Roberto Bagnara
> Computer Science Group
> Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy
> http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/
> mailto:bagnara at cs.unipr.it
>