[Gmsh] Can Gmsh be compiled as .lib file?

[Laurent Van Miegroet]

Hi Rakesh,

You can compile gmsh without any external lib. But Blas/Lapack is 
mandatory for 3D meshing if i'm not wrong and opencascade for CAD geo files.
Laurent

Le 19/12/2011 12:26, rakesh patil a écrit :
> Hey Laurent,
>
> Thanks for your reply. Just before compiling the nightly build, I 
> wanted to know the minimum supporting libraries required to compile 
> gmsh as a .lib file. (such as blas, lapack etc). What other libraries 
> I need to have before compiling it as a static library?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
> Rakesh Patil
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Laurent Van Miegroet 
> <l.vanmiegroet at ulg.ac.be <mailto:l.vanmiegroet at ulg.ac.be>> wrote:
>
>     Rakesh,
>
>     I corrected the source for msvc. It compile if you uncheck blossom
>     and fltk. There is also a project shared for the dll version.
>     Download nightly source tomorrow.
>
>     Laurent
>     Le 17/12/2011 11:03, Laurent Van Miegroet a écrit :
>>     Hello Rakesh,
>>
>>     Gmsh can be built as a .lib for sure under MSVC 2008. Generate
>>     your project with cmake, uncheck FLTK in cmake and build the lib
>>     project to obtain a library. (.lib)
>>     The ENABLE_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIME is used to switch between /MD and /MT.
>>     To obtain a dll file you may change the output configuration type
>>     of the gmsh project to dll instead of exe (not the lib project).
>>
>>     Laurent
>>
>>     PS: up to date svn version does not built on msvc 2008, some
>>     fixes are needed. Download an older version.
>>
>>     Le 17/12/2011 6:37, rakesh patil a écrit :
>>>     Hello,
>>>
>>>     Can gmsh be compiled as static library (.lib) and dynamic
>>>     library(.dll) file? If so what is the procedure? I want to test
>>>     it with both 32bit and 64bit mode on windows 7 64bit OS, with
>>>     visual studio 2008 and CMAKE.
>>>
>>>     Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>     Regards
>>>     Rakesh Patil
>>>
>>>
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>>
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>>     Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
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>     Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
>     University of Liege - Belgium
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Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
University of Liege - Belgium
Phone : +32.4.366.92.70
Fax: +32.4.366.91.59
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