So I was trying to compile Nethack but I don't want to install minGW through Sourceforge because I am not sure if it is safe because There seems to be contradictory information on whether it is safe or not.I came across this folder in msvs 2017 15.5.1 "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw32" can I use this in place of "C:\mingw"? in a batch file the file in which I want to use it in contains the code
PATH=c:\mingw\bin
cd src
mingw32-make -f makefile.gcc install
I just don't want to do anything wrong and mess up my computer.
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I am new to the optimization field. Did some projects with fmincon though, and am now looking for an alternative usable in OpenSource, preferrably somehow usable in Python. Therefore I found IPopt. Any other suggestions which are equally good as fmincon?
I tried to install IPopt by compiling it. And I must say, it seems like a mess. I tried all version and ended up with the most promising one "Installation with Cygwin using the MSVC++ compiler " from the Manual. Therefore I have to install CYGwin and change the make.exe. Done.
Add the cl.exe from Visual Studio (Visual Studio 1 in my case) to the Apth environment. Done.
add "call "call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14\VC\vcvarsall.bat" " to the cygwin.bat. Done.
Now two things. When I do "./configure" with the downloaded IPopt sources I get: "configure: error: /bin/sh './configure' failed for Ipopt"
Also like suggested in the manual calling "./configure -enable-doscompile=msvc" to tell cygwin to use the windows compiler gives me "configure: error: --enable-doscompile=mscv not supported anymore."
So. Basically I am not able to install Ipopt. Using it seem like impossible, as all other methods to build it also failed on my Win10 64bit. It seems that the manual is outdated or I am not finding the corect way to do it, hope some of u guys probably can help. Compiling is something rather new and I am happy to learn.
Tahnks in advance.
Ensure that you have the following packages installed in Cygwin.
Devel: gcc
Devel: gfortran
Devel: pkg-config
Devel: subversion
Archive: unzip
Utils: patch
Web: wget
Utils: dos2unix
Assuming you are building for 64-bit, add path to cl.exe in Cygwin.bat (located in root directory of location where Cygwin was installed) so that msvc can be used from Cygwin –
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat" (vcvarsall needs you to specify architecture version)
You will need the Intel Fortran Compiler. It comes along with Parallel Studio. Free for students, faculty, open source contributors.
In .bash_profile (located in pathto/cygwin64/home/username/) add this line so that ifort recognizes msvc linker (path given above should be to link.exe of msvc) –
alias ifort='ifort -Qlocation,link,"C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0/VC/bin/amd64"'
Intel Fortran gets integrated to a visual studio shell. Run this shell. Execute cygwin.bat from this shell. Check the version of link (link --version). If it is not the microsoft linker, you may have to remove the Cygwin link.exe file from Cygwin folder.
Note that any other bash terminals (e.g. Git Bash) might interfere. You will come to know only while running the configure script. It tries to access packages from those bash terminals. You may have to place them elsewhere temporarily, so cygwin does not find them.
I understand you have read the manual, so you must have downloaded the required third-party tools for Ipopt (asl, lapck, blas and one linear solver) .
You can now run (in Ipopt root folder):
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --enable-msvc=MD
make
make install
My adventure in the world of QT and multi-platform continue, with another roadblock.
I am on Windows 10 now; I did install QT5 and I was able to run one of the examples, so I thought everything is fine. Instead, when trying to build PythonQt, I get an error from qmake:
Project ERROR: Cannot run compiler 'cl'. Maybe you forgot to setup the environment?
I thought myself; that there is something missing; although had no luck finding what the heck do I have to actually do to set up qmake. I did assume that when you install QT, everything get set up for you, but instead it seems that something is missing.
I am on W10, using the latest installer for Python 2.7 (it is working, since when I call python I get correctly the interpreter to launch); am I missing something else?
I had this same issue with Qt5.9.1 and VS2015. I fixed this by editing "C:\Qt\Qt5.9.1\5.9.1\msvc2015\bin\qtenv2.bat" file. I added below 2 lines.
call "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
Start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe"
And then run the "Qt 5.9.1 32-bit for Desktop (MSVC 2015)" ( or 64 bit depends on your choice.).
This would set the environment before running the qmake.
Calling the vcvarsall.bat fixed my issue.
Adding to #PrimeOfKnights 's answer for the sake of completeness:
with VS2017 community, the location of vcvarsall.bat is
/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Community/VC/Auxiliary/Build/vcvarsall.bat
In qtenv2.bat, it actually says:
echo Remember to call vcvarsall.bat to complete environment setup!
So I have seen the other posts regarding moving external dll files to the current project's .exe output location for use at runtime but I seem to be running into an odd issue that I can't find information on.
I am using the following custom command to copy my libfreenect2 dlls into my output directory for my project:
add_custom_command(TARGET kinect_feeds POST_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different
"libfreenect2_output_path/bin/*.dll"
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:kinect_feeds>)
CMake sets up my project just fine, but when I go to run the command in Visual Studio it errors out when trying to copy the files. I think the issue is with the wildcard character. I used the error output in the Visual Studio to copy the complete command into by git bash window and it works as expected. Also Visual Studio has no problem moving multiple files if they are explicitly defined like so:
add_custom_command(TARGET kinect_feeds POST_BUILD
COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_if_different
"libfreenect2_output_path/bin/freenect2.dll"
"libfreenect2_output_path/bin/glfw3.dll"
$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:kinect_feeds>)
My question is, do wildcard characters not work in CMake commands when being executed by Visual Studio or is there something that I am missing? For now I will just type out all of the DLL files explicitly, but I was hoping to avoid this.
I am using the latest version of CMake and Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition.
I'm running into the same issue with CMake 3.6.1 and Visual Studio 2012. I don't think Visual Studio has any impact though, because I get the errors from the command line as well
From a CMD prompt:
> cmake -E copy .\data\*.bin \temp
Error copying file ".\data\*.bin" to "\temp".
This question references a CMake bug report regarding wildcards, that was supposed to be fixed in CMake 3.5, but doesn't appear to work on Windows with CMake 3.6.1.
I think your solution to list each file individually is the current solution.
I had to compile by myself Qt libraries (both 4.8.6 and 5.5.1 version) using Visual Studio (2008 and 2013).
After this I need to share built libraries to other co-workers, zipping the folder and putting it in a ftp server. So I'd like to remove all unnecessary stuff and maintain only the necessary in order to use Qt.
At this moment I've removed:
all .obj files
doc folder
What other stuff can I delete in order to minimize the qt folder size? I don't need to recompile it again. Can I delete the src/ folder for example?
Use nmake clean (or possibly nmake /f makefile.vc clean).
I've installed Visual Studio C++ Express 2012 and want to use it's compiler with Code::Blocks. Starting cl.exe does not work (missing mspdb100.dll) until I run vcvars32.bat, but that does only hold on for the current session in the Command-line. The same applies to compiling with Code::Blocks.
How can I make it run the vcvars32.bat before compiling?
Workaround
That workaround is actually not what I was looking for, but it works, and that is important. Instead of letting Code::Blocks running cl.exe directly, I've set-up a simple batch-script that runs vcvars32.bat before running the actual compiler.
REM File: cl.bat
call vcvars32.bat
call cl.exe %1 %*
In the project properties, you have a section Build events. You can add vcvars32.bat to the pre-build event.
To run the .bat before compiling in Code Blocks(16.01), go to the project build options and its under the "pre/post build steps" tab. This tab only appears in the project settings, not the compiler settings.
However, adding "vcvars32.bat" (or "vcvars64.bat") to the pre build steps didn't fix the error for me.
I found the directory where the library is and added it to the linker search directories. This gave errors about further missing libraries. I added the following paths to my linker settings. These will almost certainly be different for you. I'm installed MSVS 2017 community edition. For some reason known only to Microsoft, the necessary libraries are installed on two different drives.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.12.25827\lib
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.12.25827\lib\x64
D:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.16299.0\um\x64
D:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.16299.0\ucrt\x64
Note that the .bat script is no longer necessary if you add these paths by hand.