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# running configure
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To build for Windows Visual C++, configure with CXX=cl CC=cl:
/full/path/to/configure --prefix=<install directory> CXX=cl CC=cl

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# setup the compiler
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For the compilation under cygwin using VC++, you have to make sure that 
the PATH contains the path to the installation of Visual Studio.  
The safest way to do this, is to add VC to your Cygwin.bat file.  
Since it is possible to have several different versions of VC on the same 
machine, we recommend keeping a generic Cygwin.bat and creating special 
CygwinXXX.bat file for each compiler you want to use.  

Here is an example for VC9:

   @echo off

   @call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat"
   @set PATH=%PATH%;C:\cygwin\bin

   C:
   chdir C:\cygwin\bin

   bash --login -i

Two lines, "@call..." and "@set...", have been added to the default Cygwin.bat.

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# setting the path explicitly for VC 7.1
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For the compilation under cygwin using VC 7.1 (Version 13.10.3077)
you have to make sure that the PATH contains the path to the
installation of Visual Studio .NET 2003, for example:

export VSPATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003"

export PATH="/cygdrive/c/WINNT/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v1.1.4322":${PATH}

export PATH="${VSPATH}/SDK/v1.1/bin":${PATH}
export PATH="${VSPATH}/Common7/Tools/bin":${PATH}
export PATH="${VSPATH}/Common7/Tools/bin/prerelease":${PATH}
export PATH="${VSPATH}/Common7/Tools/":${PATH}

export PATH="${VSPATH}/Vc7/bin":${PATH}
export PATH="${VSPATH}/Common7/IDE":${PATH}

The compiler also needs the following variables set up (and 
as these are interpreted by the compiler, they have to be in 
"windows-syntax"):

export INCLUDE="c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/Vc7/include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\include"
export LIB="c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003/Vc7/lib;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Lib"

You may have to adapt to your installation path, if different.

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# trouble reports
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Please report problems using the bug-tracker of the savannah portal at: 

http://savannah.cern.ch/projects/clhep