I have only previously used visual studio for developing c++ but I've just moved to netbeans and am having some issues.
I got mingw installed so that my projects will compile but I dont know how to add external libraries to that. I want to use a static library, not a dll.
The library I specifically am looking at is libpng
I hope this isn't too IDE specific, I'm also looking to know how to prepare the library.
Windows OS.
I figured it out more or less. I used the cmake gui, configured for msys make and mingw g++ and gcc, on the zlib source directory and then ran msys make and make install on the output directory. After that I did the same on libpng, but I had to add some variables to point to the zlib include and library directories within cmake.
Then in netbeans, I right clicked>>properties on my project and added include and lib location for each of the two libraries. I also could have copied the files into my mingw directories.
Now I'm just stuck with this issue.
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im trying to port a c++ project from visual studio 2013 to netbeans on ubuntu. The target is a windows executable, so far im able to compile windows exe files from netbeans using mingw as compiler.
The project needs the Crypto++ library and i only have the .lib version for visual studio. To include the library in netbeans i first need to build the Crypto++ library in the .a format.
Its not clear to me how should i do that.
Ive found informations on how to build the library for linux with mingw but not for cross compilation with mingw. The provided GNUmakefile does not work.
Should i set up a vm with windows and mingw and compile the library that way? Or maybe use the qmake "hack" as suggested here http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/28809-Compiling-amp-using-Crypto-with-mingw-version-of-Qt ? The last good Crypto++ version suggested there is quite old. This is confusing, porting the whole project is easier than having the required library.
Im open to any suggestion.
tldr: how to build libcryptopp.a on linux for the cross compilation of a windows exe project
edit:
for example if i cross compile something there are windows libraries in the /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/ folder like libuser32.a. i need to make the equivalend libcryptopp.a.. sorry if is a bit unclear.
if i simply build using the steps in answer (and in the wiki) i end up with a libcryptopp.a file but i suspect is linux-only, cause if i link that library in netbeans in the .exe file im cross compiling i end up with undefined references to cryptopp stuff everywere. the paths are correct, i suspect the library needs to be replaced with the equivalent libcryptopp.a compatible with crosscompiling.
edit2: im trying to follow the answer down here, now im stuck here. after this command to build cryptopp.
make CXX=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc INCLUDES="-I /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/include" LIBS="-L /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/lib" CXXFLAGS="-std=c++0x"
and many variations of it i always end up with this error
trap.h:26:25: fatal error: Windows.h: No such file or directory
# include
which makes me think its using the right compiler to make a .a lib file for cross compiling the windows .exe with the lib.
however i dont understand whats going on now with the missing header..:(
Also if i try to link the lib file (used with visual studio) i get a lot of linking errors, undefined reference to cryptopp stuff.
ill offer a symbolic beer (a couple of $ of Bitcoins) if someone finds out how to do it.
Inspired by http://wiki.amule.org/wiki/Cross-compilation_for_windows_with_mingw:
sudo apt-get install mingw-w64
git clone https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp
cd cryptopp
export TARGET=i686-w64-mingw32
CXX=$TARGET-g++ RANLIB=$TARGET-ranlib AR=$TARGET-ar LDLIBS=-lws2_32 make -f GNUmakefile
I've found informations on how to build the library for linux with mingw but not for cross compilation with mingw.
Its relatively easy...
Get Crypto++ ZIP into MinGW.
Unpack Crypto++ ZIP.
Change directories.
Build the library.
Verify All tests passed.
(1) and (2) can be tricky because Cygwin and MinGW are missing a lot of tools. So curl https://www.cryptopp.com/cryptopp563.zip -o cryptopp563.zip may not work.
For (2), I seem to recall ZIP is missing, so unzip -aoq cryptopp563.zip -d cryptopp-5.6.3 may not work.
At step (4), just perform make static dynamic test and be sure it finished with All tests passed.
I do a lot of testing with Cygwin and MinGW. I have a script that copies Crypto++ into the environments from my Desktop. I have not been able to figure out a way to automate it. A recent question on automating it was closed, so no one can supply an answer (see How to automate software testing for Cygwin and MinGW).
I am trying to install GLFW for use in Eclipse. I am using MinGW and am on Windows 7 64-bit. I tried to install GLFW using the pre-compiled binaries, but that did not work, as I could not build projects with it.
I installed CMake and follwed the instructions on http://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/compile.html. I used CMake and it seemed to have worked, giving me a Makefile. Then I used mingw32-make to make it.
However, I am confused as to where the library files are, if there even are any. I was also under the impression that I needed a .dll file to use an external library. If anyone could help me through past this point that would be greatly appreciated
So what I did was right. All I needed to do was to link the libraries, which can be found in {%PATH_TO_GLFW%}/src. The name of the library is glfw3.
How can I use libcurl with my project without actually installing it or curl on the system?
I want to make my source-code portable, so that any developer can copy the folder with all sources and other files, run make and compile the program without the need for system level installations.
I am looking for (probably separate) solutions for Linux and for Windows (dll?). If it is possible, provide some standard/official solution and not hack (I'd like to be educated about linking third party libraries)
I've used it on Windows using Visual Studio, all you need to do under Windows:
Download the source
Using CMake generate the project files (when using Visual Studio).
Build the libraries, 3 files will be built: libcurl.lib, libcurl_imp.lib and libcurl.dll
Include curl.h in your project and add the paths to your .lib files
Build your program, put libcurl.dll in the executable folder and it will work.
On Linux it should be a similar process, build the libraries and include them with your source.
You probably want to build a static library out of libcurl and link agains it. Should be pretty straightforward and the process is almost identical on every OS.
I recently downloaded http://boost-log.sourceforge.net/libs/log/doc/html/index.html but I can't seem to find out how to build it. The rest of my boost lib was installed by using the installer, so all I did was selecting the files I wanted to include.
So how do I build Logs? Building for windows is completely new to me and I would really appreciate any help!
EDIT
Merge boost.log in the boost directory structure first.
Did you build boost ? If not, you have to go to your boost directory, run boostrap.sh and then run b2.exe. That will build all boost libraries.
Since you are on Windows, boost supports automatic linking, i.e. you just include the header files and the required libraries will be linked automatically when building your project from Visual Studio.
I tried to write code that was a sample of the Boost test library:
#include <boost/unit_test.hpp>
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(test)
{
BOOST_CHECK(true);
}
I built the source code, and I got the execution file test.exe. I tried to execute that file, but I got an error message.
The program can't start because boost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt-1_44.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
But, I have ready that file on my boost library directory.
What's the problem in this case?
Background:
For my build environment, I use Windows 7 Ultimate x64, and Visual Studio 2005.
So I built boost library by my self, and I got all the libraries for the 64-bit computing system.
Using bjam, and I use the command: bjam --toolset=mvsc-8.0 address-model=64 threading=multi --build-system=complete install on 64-bit command prompt window.
After the build, I set the boost library and header directory in Visual Studio directory path option.
Thank you all!
Make sure that the path to your DLL is included in the "PATH" environment variable. (Or include the DLL in your exe directory if you like). That way the DLL will be found.
You can also choose to use the static versions of the Boost libraries.
Build or download the static libraries and point Visual Studio at those instead. The Boost code will be built into your application (increasing its size some) and you will not need a DLL.
If using CMake to configure your application, you can tell CMake to use the static versions of the Boost libraries using Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS:
set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
find_package(Boost ... )
This way, the DLLs will not be required, as the requisite Boost definitions will be built into your application via the static libraries.