[Gmsh] Can Gmsh be compiled as .lib file?

[rakesh patil]

Hey,

Its my mistake... I am really sorry.. I had forgot to include
winsock32.lib.. :) once that was included, its working fine..

Thanks a lot

Cheers
Rakesh Patil

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Laurent Van Miegroet <
l.vanmiegroet at ulg.ac.be> wrote:

>  Rakesh,
>
> I compiled this morning the version gmsh-2.5.1-svn-20111220-source with no
> problem. I compile in 32 bit MSVC 2008 with blas (Intel) /Open Cascade.
> Do you use cl compiler or Intel Compiler within Visual studio ?
> Can you try to compile in 32 bit ? WSAStartup seems to be defined only in
> WIN32.
>
> Laurent.
>
> Le 20/12/2011 5:13, rakesh patil a écrit :
>
> Hi Laurent,
>
> This is what I did. As mentioned by you, I configured gmsh in CMAKE with
> visual studio 2008 (win 64) compiler. I disabled BLOSSOM and FLTK and gave
> the appropriate paths for BLAS and LAPACK libraries (I am using BLAS and
> LAPACK libraries which comes along with Intel Compiler). I was able to
> build static and dynamic libraries both. But when I linked them with my
> application, I got following run time error:
>
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol send
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
> WSAStartup
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
> WSACleanup
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
> closesocket
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
> connect
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol htons
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
> gethostbyname
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol socket
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol recv
> Gmsh.lib(GmshMessage.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol select
> Gmsh.lib(OS.obj): error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol gethostname
>
> Well, I observed that these functions are available in the code, but still
> wondering why my application is not able to link them. Is there any
> pre-processor to be defined before compiling? Or is it because I'm trying
> to build gmsh for 64-bit windows machine?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Laurent Van Miegroet <
> l.vanmiegroet at ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Rakesh,
>>
>> You can compile gmsh without any external lib. But Blas/Lapack is
>> mandatory for 3D meshing if i'm not wrong and opencascade for CAD geo files.
>> Laurent
>>
>> Le 19/12/2011 12:26, rakesh patil a écrit :
>>
>> Hey Laurent,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. Just before compiling the nightly build, I wanted
>> to know the minimum supporting libraries required to compile gmsh as a .lib
>> file. (such as blas, lapack etc). What other libraries I need to have
>> before compiling it as a static library?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Regards
>> Rakesh Patil
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Laurent Van Miegroet <
>> l.vanmiegroet at ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>>
>>>  Rakesh,
>>>
>>> I corrected the source for msvc. It compile if you uncheck blossom and
>>> fltk. There is also a project shared for the dll version.
>>> Download nightly source tomorrow.
>>>
>>> Laurent
>>> Le 17/12/2011 11:03, Laurent Van Miegroet a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hello Rakesh,
>>>
>>> Gmsh can be built as a .lib for sure under MSVC 2008. Generate your
>>> project with cmake, uncheck FLTK in cmake and build the lib project to
>>> obtain a library. (.lib)
>>> The ENABLE_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIME is used to switch between /MD and /MT.
>>> To obtain a dll file you may change the output configuration type of the
>>> gmsh project to dll instead of exe (not the lib project).
>>>
>>> Laurent
>>>
>>> PS: up to date svn version does not built on msvc 2008, some fixes are
>>> needed. Download an older version.
>>>
>>> Le 17/12/2011 6:37, rakesh patil a écrit :
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Can gmsh be compiled as static library (.lib) and dynamic library(.dll)
>>> file? If so what is the procedure? I want to test it with both 32bit and
>>> 64bit mode on windows 7 64bit OS, with visual studio 2008 and CMAKE.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Rakesh Patil
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> gmsh mailing listgmsh at geuz.orghttp://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Laurent Van Miegroet
>>> Research Engineer
>>> Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
>>> University of Liege - Belgium
>>> Phone : +32.4.366.92.70
>>> Fax: +32.4.366.91.59
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> gmsh mailing listgmsh at geuz.orghttp://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Laurent Van Miegroet
>>> Research Engineer
>>> Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
>>> University of Liege - Belgium
>>> Phone : +32.4.366.92.70
>>> Fax: +32.4.366.91.59
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> gmsh mailing list
>>> gmsh at geuz.org
>>> http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Laurent Van Miegroet
>> Research Engineer
>> Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
>> University of Liege - Belgium
>> Phone : +32.4.366.92.70
>> Fax: +32.4.366.91.59
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Laurent Van Miegroet
> Research Engineer
> Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
> University of Liege - Belgium
> Phone : +32.4.366.92.70
> Fax: +32.4.366.91.59
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.geuz.org/pipermail/gmsh/attachments/20111220/5540d75e/attachment.html>