I am trying to modify a current MFC application running on Windows NT4 to use boost libraries for ethernet communcications (originally, it used CommX for serial) and general increased performance, effieciency, and clarity of code.
I started out modifying it in VS2010, but I found that I was unable to produce a valid NT4 app with VS2010. I googled the issue and found that VS2005 was the last version able to create an NT4 app. I got everything to compile in VS2005, but found that I had to change certain #define statements in stdafx.h in order to get the app to run on NT4. However, even after doing that, when I execute the program on NT4, it immediately quits with no error. It doesn't show anything. I even checked the Task Manager processes while executing it. It is like it never executed at all.
I got desperate and tried compiling the app in VS2003, but I got so many errors that I gave that up.
My last attempt was VC6, but again, I got 262 errors and started wondering whether it was even possible for boost to run in VB6 or on an NT4 machine.
Is it even possible to compile and run an MFC app with boost libraries on an NT4 machine? If so, which environment/compiler do I need and how do I configure it to work correctly?
This is a very tight-schedule project, so any (prompt) help would be very appreciated! Thank you!
If you're trying to use VC6 to compile code that uses Boost, you may need an older version of Boost. Try 1.34.1.
You might try using STLport as the standard library implementation instead of the built-in STL that comes with VC6. I'm using boost 1.32 and STLport 4.6.2 successfully in VC6 with an MFC project. I haven't tried moving up to newer versions of boost or STLport, but STLport might be enough to get you going.
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I'd really appreciate some help getting HElib to work on Windows 10 x64 using the MSVC 2017 compiler. I successfully managed to compile its dependency, NTL, using the same compiler by following this tutorial and also ran its tests, so it seems to work well.
However, in the case of HElib I tried generating Visual Studio projects using cmake and then compiled it successfully (see NOTE below), but running it fails. For example, I ran the Test_binaryCompare.cpp_exe test (has its own vcproj generated by cmake), but it fails because it reaches a part of code I doubt it's supposed to (it attempts to do an operation called bootstrapping and it is disabled for that test). However, on Linux it works.
LINUX: The reason I'd really like to run this on Windows is because I find it a lot easier to debug using Visual Studio. I'm also more used to Windows overall..
NOTE: Compiling HElib successfully required some modifications like fixing broken tr1 includes (e.g it was trying to include <tr1/memory> instead of just memory although the latter was actually available), suppressing the 4146 error (I also had to do this for NTL) and fixing two instances of variable-length arrays which Microsoft's compiler sadly does not support.
Without any error messages I can't really help you figure out your exact issues but I ported HElib to Windows some time ago: https://github.com/AlexanderViand/HElib/tree/Windows
It's a bit out of date but if the tests works in that version you can check the changes I made against your changes.
There's also the option that you're simply running into this issue: https://github.com/shaih/HElib/issues/228
If your linux version of NTL is slightly older, it might just be that your windows version of NTL is the buggy one.
Finally, I'd very much recommend against running HElib on Windows because without GMP it seems painfully slow.
Instead I ended up setting up a docker virtual machine and SSH'd into that from visual studio: https://hub.docker.com/r/alexanderviand/visual-studio-linux-build-box-with-helib/
Currently I'm using WSL and CLion (which supports WSL quite well) when I'm working with HElib on Windows.
I've come across an issue whilst trying to compile the latest branch of grpc under MSYS2, using mingw64 as suggested by the official installation guide.
The latest gcc for msys2 is 5.2.0, which isn't exactly on good terms with grpc. Still, downgrading to 4.9.1 helped a bit. Through a lot of manual editing of the makefile and a couple C headers, I was finally able to compile all the dependencies. As far as I can tell, most objects had successfully compiled. However, make keeps failing with the error "no target to make libgrp.dll, required by shared_c"(might not be perfect wording). I end up with botched static libs that are recognized by Qt as lacking symbols.
I would greatly appreciate a reliable compilation guide for grpc, and/or precompiled binaries fit for Qt 5.5 32-bit. I know the project is not too mature just yet, but it looks very promising and I can't wait to work with it!
Many thanks!
You're right that mingw isn't quite a first class citizen for grpc, but it's something we're looking to work on soon. Please file bugs at http://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues for anything you find!
That said, we do test the C codebase against Visual Studio 2013 regularly. I expect C++ to be tested regularly soon, along with VS2015. Could VS2015 be the solution to your problems, given it's now a free download?
My experience with C++, GCC, MinGW and Cygwin is very limited. However, I already tested it and realized that Cygwin is not the ideal solution for what I am trying to do. Even though a GTK+ program with GTKWebkit works fine on Cygwin, it's not that great in terms of packaging the final project to a single .exe. The dependency on the cywin1.dll, etc... is a deal breaker.
I tested MinGW and it works flawlessly for a standard GTK only application in Windows. And the file size is great!
I tested a standard GCC compiler to compile a GTK & WebKitGtk application on Mac and it worked flawlessly.
But in the windows world where I am getting confused with GTK and WebkitGTK. What I want to do is compile a sample WebkitGTK application on Windows using MinGW. So, all the required libraries are statically linked and has a single .exe.
What are my choices? How do I actually build WebsiteGTK on Windows? Please give me the tools and as much details as you can.
FYI, QtWebkit is not going to cut it. Their licensing terms are not that commercial friendly.
I never did get WebKitGtk to compile on Windows. I think I could have got it to work using cygwin, but that's a non-starter for the project I'm working on.
I ended up using Chromium Embedded Framework instead: https://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/. It has clear instructions and sample apps for Mac, Linux, Windows, and mobile.
Here someone says that the easiest way to do that it's to cross-compile from virtual machine. Actually, there is binary there.
He uses OpenSUSE booted through VirtualBox. Then, using osc tool, get the mingw32-webkitgtk from windows:mingw:win32 and build it with osc.
is there any Binary Decision diagram (BDD) is available in windows.i tried to run cudd in vc++6.0..which is mention link
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~alanmi/research/soft/softPorts.htm
but it isn't working properly.i get compiler error while running a sample code
I compiled CUDD for Windows, but using MinGW not a Microsoft environment. My goal was that compiler since I use Dev-C as IDE.
I did a first try using Cygwin, but with no luck. The second try was with MSYS, an environment to run unix commands that come with MinGW for Windows. Note that CUDD uses a couple of POSIX libraries (such as ). Luckily they are used only in two secondary functions: CPU stats and a kind of fork that I didn't fully understood. Since I didn't need those, I simply commented the portion of code (in util/cpu_stats.c).
Then you only need to write a Makefile for MinGW in order to link the library!
If you need it, I can send to you the library already compiled.
I wrote a C program and works fine on Windows 7 and Linux, but when I execute it on Windows XP I get the error:
"_except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll"
I researched it and some people said to delete the DLL "dwmapi.dll" which I don't have, so that's not my problem.
Some one told me to use depends walker(depends.exe) to find who is using msvcrt.dll. I did and find that pcre library is using it and there actually is a problem with it, but I don't have any idea how to solve this. Can any one help me?
Here's image of what depends walker show me:
Reason possibilities (afaiu):
a) You linked to msvcrt.dll specifically when building - this should
not happen according to Microsoft support unless you specifically do
it.
b) Some other installed or copied program/driver on your XP that
links to "wrong" version of msvcrl.dll is being triggered.
Depending on what the reason is,
here are few ideas to resolve:
1) There might be some program/driver/etc. installation on your XP
machine that has introduced "Vista/Win7 related crap" onto it. It is
said (by the internets) that PCRE3.DLL belongs to "GnuWin32 Non-system
processes". That means you can try to find it and rename/delete it. Or
delete the program you that uses it.
2) Installing the redist for XP of the C++ redistributable that you
used to build on Win7 might help. This is link for VS2005: (darn..
use google - i can only give two links per post :P)
Rebuilding:
3) Just build the file from sources on your XP machine using some
VisualStudio version you can get on it. And check those VS project
properties!
4) Fix your build on Windows7. You might be linking to
_except_handler4_common in msvcrt.dll in your Windows 7 build. Make sure that you do not do that. You can specifically instruct the linker
not to link to it in VisualStudio project properties
"/NODEFAULTLIB:msvcrt80.lib". You also did not specify what are you
using for building. VS2005, VS2008, VS2010, gcc?
Answer based on educated guesses and Jeffrey Tan research here:
and research here:
(On behalf of OP)
The problem was with the pcre3.dll, as i've told before, and i simply change the version of it, I was using the version 7.x and change to 4.4 that calls pcre.dll instead of pcre3.dll, that solve my problem if any one have the same issue.
here is the link to the correct lib:
pcre-4.4-dll.zip