I want to use the haskell FTGL binding, which need the FTGL library. There seems no binary for windows and I can't find any useful info on how to compile it. What's the easiest way to make it work?
FTGL's source download comes with visual studio solution files (.sln), which can be built with visual studio to product the c/C++ .lib files.
They may be an older version of visual studio, but you can upgrade them which ever version you have.
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I am trying to install this library in Visual Studio 2019
https://github.com/alex-87/HyperGraphLib
The instructions only show how to do so for linux/unix I was curious how I would do this for windows. I can download the .zip but where would I extract this and how do I get Visual Studio to install the library.
Visual Studio can directly open a CMake project (CMakelists.txt indicates that).
That said, very often projects are in theory "cross platform" but in practise they don't work in Windows because no one has bothered to test them there (mostly because an alternative would already exist or the actual developers do not care much). Projects that have better chances to work with Windows usually come also with a .vcxproj/.sln.
click on project, properties, link editors , input and add the dependencies (with keyboards only )
I want to use opencv with C++.
But i dont want to install Visual studio.
Is there any way i can do that ?
I could not find any proper installation guide for that .
Visual Studio is just an IDE that helps you to develop your project. To use OpenCV library on windows, you have to add the IncludePath, LibraryPath, and link the ddl libs. In fact Visual Studio make all the stuff easier.
There might be another solution by using MingGW compiler, but it is not recommended since you are using Windows and Visual Studio is the better choice.
I've been trying to build boost:asio for Visual Studio 2012.
I already did bjam and it gave me the include and lib addresses, which I pasted in VS settings.
Now compiler can't find 'libboost_system-vc110-mt-gd-1_58.lib', but in stage lib I got the 'libboost_system-vc120-mt-gd-1_58.lib', that is probably a newer version.
How can I solved this?
I searched it for days and couldn't get through this.
Looks like you are using VisualStudio 2012 (is requesting vc110 version libraries) but you actually have build boost for Visual Studio 2013 (vc120).
You need to specify the right toolset to boost build (--toolset=msvc-11.0) and not let him pick the default.
Are you using an older-than-last version of boost?
Make sure that your version does not predate the support for VS2012. The mechanism for detecting the version is different in bjam and in the autolink headers, so that with recent versions of Visual Studio you can end up trying to link to the latest version known of boost "vc110", even though bjam detected it correctly.
Is it possible to change the restrib file to msvcr100 so other computers can run the program without having problems with the .dll file? If so how do i get that?
I do compile the program and other people can't use it because of the missing msvcr120.dll file. So it would be great if i could change that somehow.
Is it possible to install the Plattformtoolset without a older Visualstudio version?
You have a few choices:
Install VS2010 on the machine, and set the Platform Toolset option to v100.
Install the Windows SDK v7.0A from here, which SHOULD / CAN add a new option to your Platform Toolset menu in VS2013. Getting this to work can be quite fiddly though. (It's rarely worked for me right out of the box). Note if you use MFC in your application, this option isn't any good for you - MFC libraries are not included with this SDK.
Get your users to install the Microsoft VS 2013 C++ Redistributable Package from here, and carry on regardless.
Statically link to the VS2013 runtimes, instead of using dynamic linking to the runtime DLLs. You can set this in the IDE through project settings under C/C++ > Code Generation > RunTime Library > Multi-threaded (/MT) or (/MTd). All the needed code will be compiled into your app, which will make the files bigger, but will avoid the issues you mention.
In Project > Properties > General, there is a setting called Platform toolset. You can use that to change the version of the build toolchain used.
One thing to consider in regards to changing the platform toolset: it changes the compiler, so C++ features newer than Visual Studio 2010 will not compile. It also requires the other version to be installed.
The best way to handle this would be to give them the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2013.
You could either have them do it themselves, or make an installer.
I downloaded open-source version of Qt from the site and have compiled it with nmake, but I'm having trouble using it in my projects. It seems that Visual Studio can't find the Qt headers, even though I added the paths to my PATH, INCLUDE, and LIB variables. I tried installing the Qt Visual Studio add-in but it only supports Visual Studio 2008.
Has anyone gotten Qt to work with Visual Studio 2010? Or do I have to wait until Qt 4.7 is officially released for Visual Studio 2010 support?
Either download the pre-built vs2008 package or build it using cmake's vs2008 profile and then open the resulting .sln file in vs2010 and let it do the conversion.
edit - annoying feature so far is that the vs plugin doesn't support vs2010 which makes it essentially impossible to use for desktop app development.
Traditionally VS support was part of the paid licences, with the OS package you only get mingw support. Things are changing, but might have some rough edges for a while.
OTOH, mingw has a HUGE advantage: deployment. You don't have to chase around the vcredist_x86 files and all the associated voodoo. Just be sure to include all the .DLLs you use and that's it.
Also, there's QtCreator. It's not as featureful or omniscient as VS; but it does feel a lot nicer and easier to use. It takes off all the tedious work of nmake, and embeds the UI editors. And it's cross platform!
honestly, for me VS can drop dead this minute and i won't miss it.
Qt V4.8.0 contains prebuilt binaries for Visual Studio 2010 so you don't need to build manually anymore:
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/windows-cpp-vs2010