Re: MathLink with MS Visual Studio 2008
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- Subject: [mg85272] Re: MathLink with MS Visual Studio 2008
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 05:59:34 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi, it is the same as with VS 2005, you must switch of the unicode maros in the Microsoft header with $(NOINHERIT) in your preprocessor definitions. Regards Jens Steve Luttrell wrote: > I use Mathematica 6 with Windows Vista. > > I have just downloaded MS Visual C++ 2008 Express to set it up to work with > MathLink. It installs itself along with the MS Visual Studio 2008 > development environment. The documentation for Mathematica 6 (see > tutorial/MathLinkDeveloperGuide-Windows) assumes you have MS Visual Studio > 2005 (note 2005, NOT 2008), but I hoped that any differences between the > 2005 and 2008 versions would be minor, so I set about getting the addtwo > example to work. BTW, the prebuilt addtwo example works OK for me. > > I followed all of the instructions in > tutorial/MathLinkDeveloperGuide-Windows for setting up an addtwo project > without any problems, except for: > (1) In the additional dependencies step (step 16 of the instructions) I > found that ml32i3.lib does NOT exist, so I used ml32i3m.lib instead. > (2) In the custom build step (step 21 of the instructions) I had to use > explicit paths rather than the cleverly constructed paths that were > suggested. > > I then built addtwo.exe, and there were no errors but a lot of warnings (see > the transcript below). I then tried to install addtwo in a fresh Mathematica > session, but the install hung up on me and never returned. > > Presumably there is an installation detail that is somehow different for the > MS Visual Studio 2008 version (compared to the 2005 version), but there are > so many things that I could tweak that I don't know where to begin. > > Can anyone help? > > addtwo build transcript: > > 1>------ Rebuild All started: Project: addtwo, Configuration: Debug > Win32 ------ > 1>Deleting intermediate and output files for project 'addtwo', configuration > 'Debug|Win32' > 1>Performing Custom Build Step > 1>Compiling... > 1>addtwo.c > 1>addtwotm.c > 1>c:\users\steve luttrell\documents\temp\visual c++ > 2008\addtwo\addtwotm.c(75) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible > types - from 'char [7]' to 'LPCWSTR' > 1>c:\users\steve luttrell\documents\temp\visual c++ > 2008\addtwo\addtwotm.c(78) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible > types - from 'char [260]' to 'LPWCH' > 1>c:\users\steve luttrell\documents\temp\visual c++ > 2008\addtwo\addtwotm.c(88) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible > types - from 'char [7]' to 'LPCWSTR' > 1>c:\users\steve luttrell\documents\temp\visual c++ > 2008\addtwo\addtwotm.c(93) : warning C4133: '=' : incompatible types - from > 'LPSTR' to 'LPCWSTR' > 1>c:\users\steve luttrell\documents\temp\visual c++ > 2008\addtwo\addtwotm.c(94) : warning C4133: '=' : incompatible types - from > 'char [10]' to 'LPCWSTR' > 1>c:\users\steve luttrell\documents\temp\visual c++ > 2008\addtwo\addtwotm.c(100) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible > types - from 'char [10]' to 'LPCWSTR' > 1>c:\users\steve luttrell\documents\temp\visual c++ > 2008\addtwo\addtwotm.c(100) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible > types - from 'char *' to 'LPCWSTR' > 1>addtwotm.c(480) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible types - from > 'char [64]' to 'LPWSTR' > 1>addtwotm.c(492) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible types - from > 'char [64]' to 'LPCWSTR' > 1>Generating Code... > 1>Compiling manifest to resources... > 1>Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.0.5724.0 > 1>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. > 1>Linking... > 1>Embedding manifest... > 1>Microsoft (R) Windows (R) Resource Compiler Version 6.0.5724.0 > 1>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. > 1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\Steve > Luttrell\Documents\Temp\Visual C++ 2008\addtwo\Debug\BuildLog.htm" > 1>addtwo - 0 error(s), 9 warning(s) > ========== Rebuild All: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ========== > > Stephen Luttrell > West Malvern, UK > >