[Gmsh] gmsh windows development

[Christophe Geuzaine]

kihwan lee wrote:
> Dear,
> 
> 
> I am trying to compile GMSH from the source code on windows vista.
> 
> Ihe website mentions that it needs Cygwin to compile.
> 
> Here is my question: once compiled from GMSH, would it produce an executable for Windows O/S ? Is Cygwin the only way to get windows executable for GMSH ?
> 

No, you can also use Visual C++: cf. doc/README.msvc.

Beware that building a full-featured version can become quite 
complicated due to the external dependencies. We hope to be able to 
distribute a "companion" package with pre-built libraries to make this 
easier in the future.

> 
> Thank you for all the effort gone into to product and would love to contribute to it.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kihwan Lee
> 
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