Besides MSVC and cygwin there is also MinGW. The latter will give you better speed than cygwin and freedom from MS compiler suite.
Igor On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 15:40 -0400, Noel O'Boyle wrote: > Great. > > Cygwin or MSVC is your own personal preference. Cygwin makes it work > like Linux, but the MSVC code will run faster (due to the Cygwin > emulation later). Myself, I find it hard to write C++ without an IDE, > and the Visual Studio IDE seems to work well. A free version (Express) > is available. I wouldn't necessarily say that using MSVC is smooth > though, but we can talk you through the basics. > > Finding the DLLs is the same problem for MSVC or Cygwin though; the > location needs to be added to the Windows PATH or else they need to be > copied to the same directory as your example program (along with all > of the DLLs and plugin files). On Linux it's a similar problem; the > SOs need to be added to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. > > - Noel > > On 29 October 2012 03:59, Ling Chan <slch...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Yes, it works now after I have added cygopenbabel-4.dll to the PATH. Many > > thanks Noel! > > > > For a smoother experience moving forward, is it that I should use MSVC++ > > when I follow the Quickstart example (or write other C++ programs)? Or > > perhaps I should have changed some settings when making my OpenBabel package > > to make the libraries usable in Cygwin? > > > > Ling > > > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > http://forums.openbabel.org/C-API-problem-with-library-linking-tp4655620p4655626.html > > Sent from the General discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The Windows 8 Center - In partnership with Sourceforge > > Your idea - your app - 30 days. > > Get started! > > http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ > > what-html-developers-need-to-know-about-coding-windows-8-metro-style-apps/ > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenBabel-discuss mailing list > > OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Windows 8 Center - In partnership with Sourceforge > Your idea - your app - 30 days. > Get started! > http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ > what-html-developers-need-to-know-about-coding-windows-8-metro-style-apps/ > _______________________________________________ > OpenBabel-discuss mailing list > OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Windows 8 Center - In partnership with Sourceforge Your idea - your app - 30 days. Get started! http://windows8center.sourceforge.net/ what-html-developers-need-to-know-about-coding-windows-8-metro-style-apps/ _______________________________________________ OpenBabel-discuss mailing list OpenBabel-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openbabel-discuss
