Fwd: Re: [Quantlib-dev] Visual C++ settings

[Ferdinando A. <na...@am...>]

apparently this didn't show up yet... I'm trying again


>Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:29:05 +0200
>To: lui...@fa..., QuantLib developers 
><qua...@li...>
>From: Ferdinando Ametrano <na...@am...>
>Subject: Re: [Quantlib-dev] Visual C++ settings
>
>>         could anyone remind me why we have two "On the edge"
>>configurations in the VC project which are indistinguishable from the
>>ordinary "Release" and "Debug"?
>from http://quantlib.org/html/usage.html, point 5:
>The "Win32 OnTheEdgeRelease" and "Win32 OnTheEdgeDebug" configurations are 
>equivalent to "Win32 Release" and "Win32 Debug" respectively, except that 
>they do not use the installed QuantLib libraries, but look for the hpp and 
>lib QuantLib files in a relative ..\QuantLib path. This is mainly for 
>QuantLib developers, to allow them to check the examples without having to 
>install their unstable working version of QuantLib. The "OnTheEdge" 
>approach may be adopted in projects using QuantLib, allowing for a quick 
>and easy way to check how the projects work with a new QuantLib release 
>without having to install it.
>
>
>>Secondly: why not having a configuration with "Multithreaded" and
>>another for "Multithreaded DLL", instead of arguing about which should
>>be used?
>
>since we've dropped the requirement for "Multithreaded" (or "Multithreaded 
>DLL") any arguing should have ended. Whatever setting is currently 
>selected can be easily modified by the user, paying the cost of 
>recompiling the library. We should update this info in the documentation 
>(point 2 of http://quantlib.org/html/usage.html)
>I'm not against adding multiple configurations for the Multithreaded 
>switch, but all combinations of Multithread+OnTheEdge would lead to 8 
>configurations....
>
>BTW what is the "Win32 Intel OnTheEdgeRelease" configuration? If I 
>remember right it is for using the Visual Studio IDE with the Intel 
>compiler: could the users please document its usage?
>
>ciao -- Nando