Re: [Quantlib-dev] QuantLib Visual C++ Installation Guide

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 18:31 +0200, Dima wrote:
> Ok, I've updated the documentation and included an html version of the
> document, but I still think
> the pdf looks better :) Feel free to use. Its here:
> 
> http://longvega.com/QuantLibInstallationVS.zip

Peter,
	it looks good---thanks for the work you put into this. If you have some
time, I'd change a few more things, though. Here they are:

slide 5:  for VC++ 8 and 9, we just need the 4 versions in the middle
(Multithread, Multithread Debug, Multithread static runtime, and
Multithread Debug static runtime.) One might want to uncheck the others
and save some disk space.

slide 6:  the Test framework is needed to build the test suite. I'd
suggest encouraging people to install it , and I'd show the
corresponding checkbox enabled if you can fit it in the figure.

slide 7:  I'd use different folders for Boost and QuantLib, instead of a
single BoostQuantLib folder. The instructions don't get any more
difficult because of that. I'd use C:\Boost and C:\QuantLib.

slide 11:  I'd go directly for the suggested choice of setting the
global options, instead of the project properties (the same goes for
slide 13.)  Also, I'd do it from an IDE open with no projects, before
starting with the test program.

slide 12:  is this step (Not using precompiled headers) really required?

slide 17:  see slide 7.

slide 18: open QuantLib_vc9.sln by double-clicking, not the .vcproj.

slide 19-23: see slide 11.

slide 24:  instead of building just QuantLib, I'd build the whole
solution so that the test-suite is run and the examples are built.

Let me know if you have time to do these. Otherwise, I can try and do
them myself.

Thanks,
	Luigi


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