[Gmsh] OCC compilation (missing makefiles etc)

[gus.wolfgramm at xtra.co.nz]

Hello Christophe,

Unfortunately I was unable to compile on either mingw or cygwin and was having to make lots of unsatisfactory hacks to occ source whilst making tiny increments of progress. I was lost in a haze of undefined and re-defined variables and myriad other hassles. I managed to make FoundationClasses and got somewhat into ModellingData   but was unsure as to whether any of my efforts would be worthwhile as I had left a trail of unanswered warnings in my wake. I think I like your solution better. What you have provided is a treasure chest of data which I will greatly enjoy studying! 

A question though. I think I would like to build the OCC libraries from scratch (since I'm a masochist), therefore what am I to do with the new_patch_6.2.patch file. I suppose it just goes in the CAS-6.2/ root directory?

Thank you so much for your help, including everyone involved with gmsh!!

Gus
  
---- Christophe Geuzaine <cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be> wrote: 
> 
> Hi Gus - Did you eventually manage to compile OCC for use with Gmsh?
> 
> If not, I've posted the patched sources and static libraries for 
> Windows, MacOS and Linux on http://geuz.org/gmsh/beta/occ/
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christophe
> 
> gus.wolfgramm at xtra.co.nz wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I'm unable to build OCC6.2 from sources using MinGW(5.0.2)/MSys(1.0.10) as the Linux installation doesn't contain a configure script in the ros directory nor admin/make subdirectory (and any others which I may not be aware of). I am using Windows XP Home and selected a complete install using "java -verbose -jar setup.jar" as install.csh didn't work for some reason. Therefore, would it be possible for someone to send me a list of the files I need to build from sources so I can check this against my current installation. Equally as good would be any ideas as to why my install is incomplete and any possible remedial action.  I have posted a similar request on the OCC forums and have sought help from their technical department which I am still waiting on. 
> > 
> > Cheers for any help out there!
> > 
> > Gus
> > 
> > p.s for anyone who may even go to the lengths of packaging these files as attachments for me (wishful thinking I know :)), please note that I have about 80MB of storage left with my ISP (surely enough)with ~ 15 MB limit/attachment allowed. Thanks again. 
> > 
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> Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
> University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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