Re: MINGW install

Posted by Luigi Ballabio on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/MINGW-install-tp3688p3692.html

On 03/28/05 21:32:42, Luigi Ballabio wrote:

>
> On Mar 28, 2005, at 6:02 PM, eric ehlers wrote:
>> QuantLib ships with Mingw project files.  I don't use Mingw but I
>> imagine you install QuantLib and then point Mingw at e.g. C:\Program
>> Files\QuantLib\QuantLib.dev - have you tried that?
>
> Those are Dev-C++ project files. For the bare-bones MinGW, we'd need to  
> provide Makefiles, but we never got around to that. Michael, for the time  
> being you might want to use Dev-C++; it's not the best IDE in town, but  
> it can get you started.

Follow-up to myself; there are two other possibilities, namely, you can  
drive gcc via Eclipse with the C++ plugin (point it to the ql subdirectory)
or you can try installing MSYS as well as MinGW and doing the usual
'./configure; make' dance (I haven't tested this latter option though.)

HTH,
        Luigi

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