On 2012-09-11 16:13, Greg Landrum wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jan Holst Jensen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to use RDKit from a Pascal (Delphi) program on Windows and >> for that a DLL with a C-style interface would be easiest to work with. >> At least that is an approach that always works. >> >> I downloaded RDKit_2012_06_1.win32.py27.zip but that only contains >> Python-specific binaries - am I correct here ? And there is no standard >> C-style interface to RDKit functionality ? > Correct: there's no standard C-style interface. > The windows binaries really just include enough to use the python > wrappers; they don't include DLLs. > >> The option that seems most likely to succeed is then that I program what >> I need in C++; build that as a DLL, and expose my own API for the subset >> of functionality I want as C-functions. Not a problem at all, but I >> would like to avoid setting up the Windows build process if I can - >> unless a talk or tutorial at the upcoming UGM will show me that it is >> quite easy :-). > There's nothing along those lines planned, but it's still pretty easy. :-) > This wiki page has instructions for doing a windows build: > http://code.google.com/p/rdkit/wiki/BuildingOnWindows > Since you aren't interested in doing a Python build, you can ignore > everything python-related. When you run the cmake GUI, just uncheck > the RDK_BUILD_PYTHON_WRAPPERS variable after you run configure for the > first time, then re-run configure. > > -greg >
Hi Greg, Thanks for the info. I'll give the Windows build a try :-). Cheers -- Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rdkit-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
