Posted by
Luigi Ballabio on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Visual-C-configurations-tp12202.html
Hi all,
I've just answered a poor soul on quantlib-users that asked about the
difference between the various VC++ configurations we've defined. A
few thoughts:
First: the nomenclature is cryptic. It's not obvious that CRTDLL
stands for "common runtime dll." We should clarify the names.
Second, and perhaps most important: there's a mismatch between what we
call release and what the default is for VC++ projects. If one asks
for a new project, VC++ creates one with a Debug and a Release
configuration. Unfortunately, they don't correspond to what we call
release. If a user has compiled QuantLib in Release mode and tries to
link it to its new application, he'll have an unexpected linking
error. What VC++ 7 calls "Release" is what we call "Release
SingleThread"; what VC++ 8 and 9 calls "Release" is what we call
"Release CRTDLL".
Needless to say, I'd like to fix this in future releases. For VC++ 8
and 9, I'd call "Release" the default configuration (crtdll) and
something like "Release (static runtime)" the current Release. Well,
actually, I'm not even sure that I'd leave multiple configurations
instead of just Debug/Release; on the one hand, they're confusing for
most users, and on the other hand, a user that needs a particular
runtime is likely to know what settings to change to obtain it. We can
talk about this; at the very least, I'd switch the names.
For VC++ 7, I'm not so sure. For uniformity, I'd call Release what VC+
+ calls Release, i.e., the single-thread configuration. But doing so,
we'd lose uniformity between VC++ versions; and I'm also concerned
about QuantLibXL---Eric, does it support single-thread mode, or does
it require the multi-threaded runtime? If the latter, we might want to
use the crtdll configuration as default.
Thought anyone?
Later,
Luigi
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