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

Ian Taylor ian.taylor at noaa.gov
Tue Jan 17 10:17:04 PST 2012


I just copied Arni's email (pretty much verbatim) into a new FAQ item:
http://admb-project.org/documentation/faq#dll
If anyone has a suggestion for a revision to that, or if it ceases to be
the current state of ADMB, please let me know.
-Ian

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Arni Magnusson <arnima at hafro.is> wrote:

> 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<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
>>
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