[ADMB Users] ADMB 64 MS visual 10 -- Building DLL issues

[Arni Magnusson]

Hi Naji,

I believe the DLL compilation is broken on most platforms - but probably 
not all.

Many years ago, Dave Fournier implemented fully working DLL compilation on 
all ADMB platforms (e.g. ADMB 5.0 in 2000). My understanding is that Dave 
did not continue to maintain this feature, because it took a lot of effort 
and it looked like few or no users were compiling ADMB DLLs.

When I wrote the adcomp/adlink/admb scripts in 2009, I decided to provide 
the -d option, knowing that the feature was at least half-broken. The idea 
is to highlight a feature that can probably be resurrected - and of course 
to provide DLL compilation on the few platforms where it still works.

The development team has only allocated limited efforts to examine the 
issue of DLL compilation, but encourages interested users to do so. 
Several discussions can be found on 
http://groups.google.com/group/admb-users/search?group=admb-users&q=dll

This should probably be an ADMB FAQ entry, and the DLL chapter in the 
manual could be updated...

DLL compilation could definitely streamline the process of interfacing 
ADMB with other software, and might result in creative applications beyond 
our imagination.

Arni




On Tue, 17 Jan 2012, Nassar wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have installed ADMB 10 (64bit) and compiling it with Microsoft Visual 
> Studio 10.0 (SDK 7.1 with .NET 4.0)
>
> Thanks to Allan Hicks, compiling the programs and building executables 
> is perfectly running.
>
> But I do have troubles building DLL, somebody overcame this issue?
>
> Tpl2cpp -gaussdll simple
>
> Adcomp64 -d simple
>
> Those commands wen ok
>
> Adlink64 -d simple
>
> I had to interrupt this command avec several min without any answer
>
> Advices & help are highly welcome
>
> Best regards
>
> Naji
>