Hi Roberto,
Thank you for the detailed instructions. I have been able to slowly reach the following step:
/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
but am stuck here. The reason for this is that the git repo that I cloned does not have a file called configure.
That is, I went to my home directory and as suggested, I issued:
git clone git://git.bugseng.com/ppl/ppl.git
This creates a /ppl/ subfolder. However, this subfolder does not have a file called configure. It has "BUGS", "ChangeLog",...,config.sub, configure.ac, COPYING,...
skipping over the configure file
Hence, when I issue the equivalent of the command above on my machine, I get:
bash: /home/Tryer/ppl/configure: No such file or directory
Could you please check whether the git branch above does indeed have the configure file?
Thanks. Tryer
On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 2:35 AM Roberto Bagnara bagnara@cs.unipr.it wrote:
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:
- If you are on a Debian-like Linux distro, you need to install the g++-mingw-w64 package and possibly others.
- I am enabling static libraries and disabling shared libraries because of the subject of this thread (I usually do the opposite);
- 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,
RobertoOn 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 Windowsusing
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%3E
https://www.bugseng.com/ppl-requirements%3E
https://www.bugseng.com/ppl-download%3E
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%3E 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.