[Gmsh] GMSH and OCC 6.3 with MinGW

[Christophe Geuzaine]

Joachim Zettler wrote:
> Dear all,
> I think the GMSH development team is up to now the only group which
> managed to patch the OCC 6.2 version to compile with mingw/cygwin in
> Windows.
> As I currently switched to the Qt SDK with Qt Creator and MinGW I also
> need the OCC libs in a MinGW version.
> Unfortunately I need the Version 6.3 of OCC libs to link with GMSH as
> I use these libs for CAD graphics programming as well.
> Can somebody help me in getting OCC6.3 to compile with MinGW?
> I already tried the dumb way of using cygwin with -no-cygwin option
> but at a certain stage in compilation process it fails with strange
> compiler errors :(
> 

Hi Joachim - We tried to compile 6.3 on Mingw a while ago, but for some 
reason the resulting libs were unusable (after some tweaking it worked 
for 6.2).

I have since then abandonned this idea. On Windows we now simply compile 
with Visual C++ and use the official OCC dlls.



> Best regards in advance,
> Joachim
> 
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