compile pb

compile pb

[Emmanuel Chomarat]

  Hi all,

  I used gsl under windows with msvc lib and it works good. But at
  this time i need your help to compile gsl under Borland C++ builder.
  Please help me or let me know if someone has already investigate
  this way. C++ builder is a good compiler and i think a makefile for
  borland product lack. GSL with his licence is free, Borland offer a
  great C++ compiler(v5.5) to the community, i think that it is a good pair
  if we can have both, working together.

  Can any1 help me to compile GSL, or give some way to investigate in
  the compilation. In the dist you use automake that is  a great
  product under unix like system, but i'm not sur that this format is
  human easy understandable. I'have some problems to make a makefile
  that will be good with borland c++, and i don't know how to generate
  makefile(except with cygwin but i think it contains some
  POSIX particularities that i don't have under borland) .

  TIA,
  

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 Emmanuel                          mail:Emmanuel.Chomarat@bigfoot.com

Re: compile pb

[Brian Gough]

Emmanuel Chomarat writes:
 >   Can any1 help me to compile GSL, or give some way to investigate in
 >   the compilation. In the dist you use automake that is  a great
 >   product under unix like system, but i'm not sur that this format is
 >   human easy understandable. I'have some problems to make a makefile
 >   that will be good with borland c++, and i don't know how to generate
 >   makefile(except with cygwin but i think it contains some
 >   POSIX particularities that i don't have under borland) .

I used the perl script msvc/am2ms.pl to create the MS project files
from the Automake .am files.

Maybe the script could be modified to create NMAKE files.

regards
Brian Gough

Re: compile pb

[Jose Miguel Buenaposada]

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Emmanuel Chomarat wrote:

>   Can any1 help me to compile GSL, or give some way to investigate in
>   the compilation. In the dist you use automake that is  a great
>   product under unix like system, but i'm not sur that this format is
>   human easy understandable. I'have some problems to make a makefile
>   that will be good with borland c++, and i don't know how to generate
>   makefile(except with cygwin but i think it contains some
>   POSIX particularities that i don't have under borland) .

Hello, I started to make the MSVC projects looking into the Makefile.am files.

And yes those files are human readables ...

I can give you some hints in order to proceed:

- First you have to look into the gsl sources root Makefile.am
    The SUBDIRS variable give you the subdirs to be processed and the order
(from left to right).
    So in every Makefile.am file you can find a SUBDIRS variable or not (in
which case you are in
    a leaf dir).

- GSL is built from leafs to root directory and in every leaf dir is built a
pseudo library,
    and all this leaf libraries are linked together in the root dir (or in gsl
dir I can not remember
    now).

- In every Makefile.am in a leaf dir for building a test program you have
something like:

    bin_PROGRAMS= program1

    program1_SOURCES= source1.c source1.h source2.c source2.h
    program1_LDADD=-llibrary1 -llibrary2

So you can just follow more or less the Makefile.am files in order to now how
to proceed.

On the other hand you can just follow the structure of the Visual C++ projects
files and
use it to construct the borland c++ projects files and then export them to
makefiles (is
this possible?).

I hope to be of any help and not to confuse you more ;-).

Jose Miguel.

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Re[2]: compile pb

[Emmanuel Chomarat]

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Hello Jose,
   Thanks for this help, i'll try to use your advises, but i saw that
   i have to declare some #define for the compiler:
   i saw WIN32;_NDEBUG;_MBCS;_LIB flags in the msvc libgsl.dsp
   Do you think this flags are good for a build with another win32
   compiler. What are they doing?
   Another question if i want to do a dll(that is different from
   those i can find in a gsl-bin*.zip), how to export all functions
   in the lib, i can be do with some comandline utilities but does a
   flag exist?
   
Saturday, August 04, 2001, 12:09:09 PM, you wrote:

JMB> Emmanuel Chomarat wrote:

>>   Can any1 help me to compile GSL, or give some way to investigate in
>>   the compilation. In the dist you use automake that is  a great
>>   product under unix like system, but i'm not sur that this format is
>>   human easy understandable. I'have some problems to make a makefile
>>   that will be good with borland c++, and i don't know how to generate
>>   makefile(except with cygwin but i think it contains some
>>   POSIX particularities that i don't have under borland) .

JMB> Hello, I started to make the MSVC projects looking into the Makefile.am files.

JMB> And yes those files are human readables ...

JMB> I can give you some hints in order to proceed:

JMB> - First you have to look into the gsl sources root Makefile.am
JMB>     The SUBDIRS variable give you the subdirs to be processed and the order
JMB> (from left to right).
JMB>     So in every Makefile.am file you can find a SUBDIRS variable or not (in
JMB> which case you are in
JMB>     a leaf dir).

JMB> - GSL is built from leafs to root directory and in every leaf dir is built a
JMB> pseudo library,
JMB>     and all this leaf libraries are linked together in the root dir (or in gsl
JMB> dir I can not remember
JMB>     now).

JMB> - In every Makefile.am in a leaf dir for building a test program you have
JMB> something like:

JMB>     bin_PROGRAMS= program1

JMB>     program1_SOURCES= source1.c source1.h source2.c source2.h
JMB>     program1_LDADD=-llibrary1 -llibrary2

JMB> So you can just follow more or less the Makefile.am files in order to now how
JMB> to proceed.

JMB> On the other hand you can just follow the structure of the Visual C++ projects
JMB> files and
JMB> use it to construct the borland c++ projects files and then export them to
JMB> makefiles (is
JMB> this possible?).

JMB> I hope to be of any help and not to confuse you more ;-).

JMB> Jose Miguel.

JMB> --
JMB> -------------------------------------------------------------------
JMB> Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto
JMB> Facultad de Informática                  | Computer Science School
JMB> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  (UPM) | Madrid Tech. University.
JMB> Campus de Montegancedo s/n
JMB> 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid (ESPAÑA)| (SPAIN)
JMB> Voice    +34 91 336 69 47
JMB> Fax      +34 91 352 48 19
JMB> e-mail:  jmbuena@dia.fi.upm.es
JMB> web   :  http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/~jmbuena
JMB> -------------------------------------------------------------------
JMB> Yo soy Precario FPU, ¿ y tu ?: http://www.precarios.org





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Best regards,
 Emmanuel                            mailto:Emmanuel.Chomarat@bigfoot.com

Re: compile pb

[Jose Miguel Buenaposada]

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Emmanuel Chomarat wrote:

> Hello Jose,
>    Thanks for this help, i'll try to use your advises, but i saw that
>    i have to declare some #define for the compiler:
>    i saw WIN32;_NDEBUG;_MBCS;_LIB flags in the msvc libgsl.dsp
>    Do you think this flags are good for a build with another win32
>    compiler. What are they doing?

I think WIN32 must to be defined for every windows program. On
the other hand VisualC++ defines _MSC_VER, so code or pragmas
specific for this compiler can be added inf a #ifdef _MSC_VER.
Sorry but I don't know so much about the other defines.

Some thing I forgot to say is that we had to add the correct definitions to
the INF,  NAN, and things related for the VisualC++, so maybe you have
to do the same for the Borland compiler. Sorry but I have not a gsl tree
here and I don't remember the name of the file in which this stuff is.


>    Another question if i want to do a dll(that is different from
>    those i can find in a gsl-bin*.zip), how to export all functions
>    in the lib, i can be do with some comandline utilities but does a
>    flag exist?

Sorry but I can not help in this point, I'm not a MS Windows programing
guru, so maybe somebody else can help here.

Hope that helps.






>
>
> Saturday, August 04, 2001, 12:09:09 PM, you wrote:
>
> JMB> Emmanuel Chomarat wrote:
>
> >>   Can any1 help me to compile GSL, or give some way to investigate in
> >>   the compilation. In the dist you use automake that is  a great
> >>   product under unix like system, but i'm not sur that this format is
> >>   human easy understandable. I'have some problems to make a makefile
> >>   that will be good with borland c++, and i don't know how to generate
> >>   makefile(except with cygwin but i think it contains some
> >>   POSIX particularities that i don't have under borland) .
>
> JMB> Hello, I started to make the MSVC projects looking into the Makefile.am files.
>
> JMB> And yes those files are human readables ...
>
> JMB> I can give you some hints in order to proceed:
>
> JMB> - First you have to look into the gsl sources root Makefile.am
> JMB>     The SUBDIRS variable give you the subdirs to be processed and the order
> JMB> (from left to right).
> JMB>     So in every Makefile.am file you can find a SUBDIRS variable or not (in
> JMB> which case you are in
> JMB>     a leaf dir).
>
> JMB> - GSL is built from leafs to root directory and in every leaf dir is built a
> JMB> pseudo library,
> JMB>     and all this leaf libraries are linked together in the root dir (or in gsl
> JMB> dir I can not remember
> JMB>     now).
>
> JMB> - In every Makefile.am in a leaf dir for building a test program you have
> JMB> something like:
>
> JMB>     bin_PROGRAMS= program1
>
> JMB>     program1_SOURCES= source1.c source1.h source2.c source2.h
> JMB>     program1_LDADD=-llibrary1 -llibrary2
>
> JMB> So you can just follow more or less the Makefile.am files in order to now how
> JMB> to proceed.
>
> JMB> On the other hand you can just follow the structure of the Visual C++ projects
> JMB> files and
> JMB> use it to construct the borland c++ projects files and then export them to
> JMB> makefiles (is
> JMB> this possible?).
>
> JMB> I hope to be of any help and not to confuse you more ;-).
>
> JMB> Jose Miguel.
>
> JMB> --
> JMB> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> JMB> Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto
> JMB> Facultad de Informática                  | Computer Science School
> JMB> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  (UPM) | Madrid Tech. University.
> JMB> Campus de Montegancedo s/n
> JMB> 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid (ESPAÑA)| (SPAIN)
> JMB> Voice    +34 91 336 69 47
> JMB> Fax      +34 91 352 48 19
> JMB> e-mail:  jmbuena@dia.fi.upm.es
> JMB> web   :  http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/~jmbuena
> JMB> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> JMB> Yo soy Precario FPU, ¿ y tu ?: http://www.precarios.org
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  Emmanuel                           mailto:Emmanuel.Chomarat@bigfoot.com

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-------------------------------------------------------------------
Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto
Facultad de Informática                  | Computer Science School
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  (UPM) | Madrid Tech. University.
Campus de Montegancedo s/n
28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid (ESPAÑA)| (SPAIN)
Voice    +34 91 336 69 47
Fax      +34 91 352 48 19
e-mail:  jmbuena@dia.fi.upm.es
web   :  http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/~jmbuena
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Yo soy Precario FPU, ¿ y tu ?: http://www.precarios.org

Re[2]: compile pb

[Emmanuel Chomarat]

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Hello Jose,

      I tried yours advises on the rng subdirs. Good news, the compile
      works good and i succeeded in the creation of a mini lib as you
      explain me. But know i have a problem, when i try to create an
      app and to link this lib the compiler fails. The reason is the
      following lines:

                gsl_rng_type * T;
                gsl_rng_env_setup() ;
                T = gsl_rng_default;
      But when i'm looking in the <gsl\gsl_rng.h> i saw
      
          const gsl_rng_type ** gsl_rng_types_setup(void);
          extern const gsl_rng_type *gsl_rng_default;

     The compiler gives me the message :
Borland C++ 5.5.1 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 2000 Borland
app.cpp:
Error E2034 app.cpp 8: Cannot convert 'const gsl_rng_type *' to 'gsl_rng_type *'
 in function main()
*** 1 errors in Compile ***     


I m not an expert in const pointer, but does any1 can explain me this
error. in fact i tried many other modules and it is nearly the only
error i encountered.

      
Saturday, August 04, 2001, 2:38:48 PM, you wrote:

JMB> Emmanuel Chomarat wrote:

>> Saturday, August 04, 2001, 12:09:09 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> JMB> Emmanuel Chomarat wrote:
>>
>> >>   Can any1 help me to compile GSL, or give some way to investigate in
>> >>   the compilation. In the dist you use automake that is  a great
>> >>   product under unix like system, but i'm not sur that this format is
>> >>   human easy understandable. I'have some problems to make a makefile
>> >>   that will be good with borland c++, and i don't know how to generate
>> >>   makefile(except with cygwin but i think it contains some
>> >>   POSIX particularities that i don't have under borland) .
>>
>> JMB> Hello, I started to make the MSVC projects looking into the Makefile.am files.
>>
>> JMB> And yes those files are human readables ...
>>
>> JMB> I can give you some hints in order to proceed:
>>
>> JMB> - First you have to look into the gsl sources root Makefile.am
>> JMB>     The SUBDIRS variable give you the subdirs to be processed and the order
>> JMB> (from left to right).
>> JMB>     So in every Makefile.am file you can find a SUBDIRS variable or not (in
>> JMB> which case you are in
>> JMB>     a leaf dir).
>>
>> JMB> - GSL is built from leafs to root directory and in every leaf dir is built a
>> JMB> pseudo library,
>> JMB>     and all this leaf libraries are linked together in the root dir (or in gsl
>> JMB> dir I can not remember
>> JMB>     now).
>>
>> JMB> - In every Makefile.am in a leaf dir for building a test program you have
>> JMB> something like:
>>
>> JMB>     bin_PROGRAMS= program1
>>
>> JMB>     program1_SOURCES= source1.c source1.h source2.c source2.h
>> JMB>     program1_LDADD=-llibrary1 -llibrary2
>>
>> JMB> So you can just follow more or less the Makefile.am files in order to now how
>> JMB> to proceed.
>>
>> JMB> On the other hand you can just follow the structure of the Visual C++ projects
>> JMB> files and
>> JMB> use it to construct the borland c++ projects files and then export them to
>> JMB> makefiles (is
>> JMB> this possible?).
>>
>> JMB> I hope to be of any help and not to confuse you more ;-).
>>
>> JMB> Jose Miguel.
>>
>> JMB> --
>> JMB> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> JMB> Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto
>> JMB> Facultad de Informática                  | Computer Science School
>> JMB> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  (UPM) | Madrid Tech. University.
>> JMB> Campus de Montegancedo s/n
>> JMB> 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid (ESPAÑA)| (SPAIN)
>> JMB> Voice    +34 91 336 69 47
>> JMB> Fax      +34 91 352 48 19
>> JMB> e-mail:  jmbuena@dia.fi.upm.es
>> JMB> web   :  http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/~jmbuena
>> JMB> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>> JMB> Yo soy Precario FPU, ¿ y tu ?: http://www.precarios.org
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Emmanuel                           mailto:Emmanuel.Chomarat@bigfoot.com

JMB> --
JMB> -------------------------------------------------------------------
JMB> Jose Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto
JMB> Facultad de Informática                  | Computer Science School
JMB> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid  (UPM) | Madrid Tech. University.
JMB> Campus de Montegancedo s/n
JMB> 28660 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid (ESPAÑA)| (SPAIN)
JMB> Voice    +34 91 336 69 47
JMB> Fax      +34 91 352 48 19
JMB> e-mail:  jmbuena@dia.fi.upm.es
JMB> web   :  http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/~jmbuena
JMB> -------------------------------------------------------------------
JMB> Yo soy Precario FPU, ¿ y tu ?: http://www.precarios.org





-- 
Best regards,
 Emmanuel                            mailto:Emmanuel.Chomarat@bigfoot.com

Re: Re[2]: compile pb

[Brian Gough]

Emmanuel Chomarat writes:
 > Hello Jose,
 > 
 >       I tried yours advises on the rng subdirs. Good news, the compile
 >       works good and i succeeded in the creation of a mini lib as you
 >       explain me. But know i have a problem, when i try to create an
 >       app and to link this lib the compiler fails. The reason is the
 >       following lines:
 > 
 >                 gsl_rng_type * T;

needs to be

  const gsl_rng_type * T;

now (pointer to const). Some of the documentation was out of date,
I've updated it now.  Thanks for reporting that.