[Coin-discuss] Alps MS-VS workspace

[Matthew Galati]

I was unaware that v8 was freely available. We have VS2003 installed 
here at work - and it runs v7.

When I put ALPs source into project workspace I get:

c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN_NEW\Coin-Alps\Alps\src\AlpsConfig.h(38) : 
fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'configall_system.h': No 
such file or directory
AlpsSubTree.cpp

among other errors like:
c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN_NEW\Coin-Alps\Alps\src\AlpsKnowledge.cpp(29) 
: error C2039: '__ctor' : is not a member of 'AlpsKnowledge'
        
c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN_NEW\Coin-Alps\Alps\src\AlpsKnowledge.h(48) : 
see declaration of 'AlpsKnowledge'
c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN_NEW\Coin-Alps\Alps\src\AlpsKnowledge.cpp(30) 
: error C2270: 'encode' : modifiers not allowed on nonmember functions
c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN_NEW\Coin-Alps\Alps\src\AlpsKnowledge.cpp(32) 
: error C2673: 'encode' : global functions do not have 'this' pointers
c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN_NEW\Coin-Alps\Alps\src\AlpsKnowledge.cpp(32) 
: error C2228: left of '.name' must have class/struct/union type
c:\cygwin\home\magala\COIN_NEW\Coin-Alps\Alps\src\AlpsKnowledge.cpp(33) 
: error C2673: 'encode' : global functions do not have 'this' pointers


>>I'd like to build with v7
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>Any reason not to use v8 since it is freely available?
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/
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>Does anyone know if the ALPS source code compiles with v7 or v8?
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