Re: MathLink with MS Visual Studio 2008
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- Subject: [mg85360] Re: MathLink with MS Visual Studio 2008
- From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 04:47:33 -0500 (EST)
- References: <fo1a3l$g38$1@smc.vnet.net> <fo9ftn$s9u$1@smc.vnet.net>
Thanks for that. I have no idea where you found out about $(NOINHERIT), it's not in tutorial/MathLinkDeveloperGuide-Windows, but it worked for me. Stephen Luttrell West Malvern, UK "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote in message news:fo9ftn$s9u$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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 >> >> >