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

[Weihai Liu]

I use one of the old example from the admb manual, the admb -d works fine
on mingw gnu compiler for windows for the latest revision. Not sure for
other compiler though.

weihai

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Ian Taylor <ian.taylor at noaa.gov> wrote:

> 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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