[Gmsh] GMSH and OCC 6.3 with MinGW

[Joachim Zettler]

Dear Christophe,

thank you for your comments. The precompiled libraries are of course a
good alternative. I think I will also forget the idea to use MinGW.
Its just too much work.

With best regards,
Joachim

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Christophe Geuzaine<cgeuzaine at ulg.ac.be> wrote:
> Joachim Zettler wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> I think the GMSH development team is up to now the only group which
>> managed to patch the OCC 6.2 version to compile with mingw/cygwin in
>> Windows.
>> As I currently switched to the Qt SDK with Qt Creator and MinGW I also
>> need the OCC libs in a MinGW version.
>> Unfortunately I need the Version 6.3 of OCC libs to link with GMSH as
>> I use these libs for CAD graphics programming as well.
>> Can somebody help me in getting OCC6.3 to compile with MinGW?
>> I already tried the dumb way of using cygwin with -no-cygwin option
>> but at a certain stage in compilation process it fails with strange
>> compiler errors :(
>>
>
> Hi Joachim - We tried to compile 6.3 on Mingw a while ago, but for some
> reason the resulting libs were unusable (after some tweaking it worked for
> 6.2).
>
> I have since then abandonned this idea. On Windows we now simply compile
> with Visual C++ and use the official OCC dlls.
>
>
>
>> Best regards in advance,
>> Joachim
>>
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