Re: [Quickfix-developers] install Quickfix FIX engine on windows, use python API to build a client/buy-side

[Asaf B. G. <asa...@gm...>]

Hello Frank!

Thanks very much for the quick reply! I'm sorry for my late reply...

It is weird that people compile it with  "&func" and it works for them...
but as you said, it probably depends on the compiler...

These things are all about the try and error process, but the most
important thing is that eventually it works!!

Happy FIXing too!

Best,

Asaf









On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 5:10 PM, K. Frank <kfr...@gm...> wrote:

> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/
>
> Hello Asaf!
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:47 AM, Asaf Ben Gal <asa...@wh...>
> wrote:
> > ...
> > By the way, I installed quickfix by downloading the "source tar" and
> building the "quickfix_vs12.sln" in Microsoft visual studio.
> >
> > The thing is that it had a syntax error in the "utility.cpp' file in
> line number 399 in the "bool thread_spawn( THREAD_START_ROUTINE func, void*
> var, thread_id& thread )" method.
>
> I saw the same problem with quickfix-1.13.3 back in 2013.
>
> > The original (399 line) was: "result = _beginthreadex( NULL, 0, &func,
> var, 0, &id );" and I deleted the "&" sign so that it would be: "result =
> _beginthreadex( NULL, 0, func, var, 0, &id );"
> >
> > and only then the build was successful...
>
> I made the same correction and was able to build and run quickfix in a
> smallish application without any obvious problems.
>
> > Is it a known issue? Did I fix it correctly? I'm not familiar with c# so
> I have no idea why it worked....
>
> (By the way, I think you mean c++ here.)
>
> I started a thread on this list about it.  Here's a link to my original
> post:
>
>    https://sourceforge.net/p/quickfix/mailman/message/30333881/
>
> and to the entire thread:
>
>    https://sourceforge.net/p/quickfix/mailman/quickfix-developers/thread/
> CAKEnbTMwYrXCU1e55ywAzXxLnVoPQfcMyxay%3DEDkNq_OHqoBvg%
> 40mail.gmail.com/#msg30333881
>
> In that thread Mike Gatny said:
>
>    It works with the VS compiler (32-bit, anyway).
>
> I don't doubt that it worked for him, but this never made any sense to me.
> My reading of the original code (with "&func") is such that I can't see how
> it would ever compile, even with a "tolerant" compiler.
>
> (I should note that I was doing a presumably unsupported windows build
> using mingw-w64, a windows port of gcc, rather than ms visual studio.)
>
> It's weird.  You see exactly what I would expect on windows -- a compile
> error when using "&func".  But, as far as I can tell, lots of people build
> and
> run quickfix on windows, presumably without seeing this error.
>
> > Thanks again,
> >
> > Asaf
>
>
> Happy FIXing!
>
>
> K. Frank
>
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