[Help-gsl] building and linking gsl 1-14 with Visual C++ Express 2008

[Polder, Matthew J (N-The SI)]

I've previously used gsl-1.8 with Visual C++ Express 2008 using the build files 
found at http://sourceware.org/ml/gsl-discuss/2006-q2/msg00052.html (at least 
this may be where I got them; it's been a while). I'm now trying to use 
gsl-1.14 with Visual C++ Express 2008. I'm limited to using 1.14 vs. 1.15 and 
the 2008 Express version vs. the 2010 version, otherwise I'd use the files at 
http://gladman.plushost.co.uk/oldsite/computing/gnu_scientific_library.php.

I used the Makefiles from a linux build of the library to generate my vcproj 
files. I can't get either rowcol.c or submatrix.c to compile cleanly so I 
removed them (this may cause problems later on but I can live with it for now). 
After building the library (and the cblas one too) I tried linking with some 
projects that previously used my gsl-1.8 libraries.

The problem is several undefined symbols, mainly gsl_vector_* and gsl_matrix_*. 
It appears that through macros and defines, gsl handles various data types 
(long, short, double, etc) by defining functions with the data type in the 
function name, but double defaults to not having double in the name, e.g. 
gsl_vector_free vs. gsl_vector_double_free. The needed symbols are defined 
properly in my linux build but not in my Visual Studio build. I've tried 
defining various preprocessor macros to no avail.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks,
matthew


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