Hello Tryer.
What I meant is that you could cross-compile the PPL under Linux for Windows. We do this routinely. I redid it just now, so as to be sure:
$ mkdir gmpbuild gmpinstall pplbuild pplinstall $ cd /home/roberto/gmpbuild $ /home/roberto/gmp-6.2.1/configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/home/roberto/gmpinstall --enable-fat --enable-cxx --disable-shared --enable-static $ make $ make install $ cd /home/roberto/pplbuild $ /home/roberto/ppl/configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/home/roberto/pplinstall --with-cxxflags=-std=c++11 --with-gmp=/home/roberto/gmpinstall --enable-optimization --disable-debugging --disable-documentation --enable-interfaces="c cxx" --enable-ppl_lcdd --disable-ppl_lpsol --disable-ppl_pips --enable-instantiations=Polyhedron --disable-shared --enable-static --disable-assertions $ make $ make install $ ls -R /home/roberto/pplinstall/ /home/roberto/pplinstall/: bin include lib share
/home/roberto/pplinstall/bin: ppl-config.exe ppl_lcdd.exe
/home/roberto/pplinstall/include: ppl_c.h ppl.hh
/home/roberto/pplinstall/lib: libppl.a libppl_c.a libppl_c.la libppl.la
/home/roberto/pplinstall/share: aclocal doc man
/home/roberto/pplinstall/share/aclocal: ppl_c.m4 ppl.m4
/home/roberto/pplinstall/share/doc: ppl
/home/roberto/pplinstall/share/doc/ppl: BUGS COPYING fdl.txt NEWS README.configure TODO ChangeLog CREDITS gpl.txt README README.doc
/home/roberto/pplinstall/share/man: man1 man3
/home/roberto/pplinstall/share/man/man1: ppl-config.1 ppl_lcdd.1
/home/roberto/pplinstall/share/man/man3: libppl.3 libppl_c.3
Note:
0) If you are on a Debian-like Linux distro, you need to install the g++-mingw-w64 package and possibly others. 1) I am enabling static libraries and disabling shared libraries because of the subject of this thread (I usually do the opposite); 2) Your reference to Visual Studio 2019 confuses me: I do not think there is binary compatibility between MSVC and MinGW. I think you should compiler and link everything with MinGW.
Again: do not use any bzip2 old distribution of PPL: use the Git version, devel branch. Kind regards,
Roberto
On 08/03/22 20:28, anoninus wrote:
Hi Roberto,
Thanks. Based on looking at the c++ code of ppl_lcdd, I have indeed been able to figure out the way to do the V to H convex hull computation.
However, I have some difficulty understanding the following:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 2:05 AM Roberto Bagnara <bagnara@cs.unipr.it mailto:bagnara@cs.unipr.it> wrote:
Regarding your other question, the PPL can be compiled for Windows using MinGW.I have looked at the installation instructions at:
https://www.bugseng.com/parma-polyhedra-library/ppl-portability https://www.bugseng.com/parma-polyhedra-library/ppl-portability https://www.bugseng.com/ppl-requirements https://www.bugseng.com/ppl-requirements https://www.bugseng.com/ppl-download https://www.bugseng.com/ppl-download
I have installed MinGW on my Windows computer. Are you saying that I should *install* PPL using MinGW? On a linux machine, after downloading the bzip2 tar archive, I was indeed able to run ./configure, make and make install just fine. On a windows machine, I do not know how to *install* the library so that the system is able to "see" the ppl.hh file, for instance. In other words, what are the equivalent steps to take on the windows machine to ./configure, make and make install?
Install and README.configure links on the ppl-download page do not seem to point at any specific page. They currently point to the same page.
Or, is it that I should just store the contents of the folder obtained after extracting the zip file on https://www.bugseng.com/ppl-download https://www.bugseng.com/ppl-download on any location of my choice on the windows machine. Then, should I just inform my IDE on Windows (Visual Studio 2019) to find the header files in this folder? For e.g., the header file, ppl.hh is located in the src/ subfolder. Of course, then, as you suggest, I will change the settings in my IDE to use the MinGW toolchain instead of the MSVC toolchain.
Thank you. Tryer.