Re: [Help-gsl] Binary installer for GSL-1.13 on MinGW

[seb_kramm]

Great, thanks a lot. I was still using 1.8.
Just downloaded, and tried.

Some remarks:

With the previous release I used (see below), I did static linking with files 
libgsl.a and libgslcblas.a
In your release, there appears to be only the latter file, and you provide a 'dll' 
version (libgsl.dll.a) for gsl.
I tried to link with it, it went fine, but then you need to copy the two dll files in 
your windows/system32 in order to make things work. I did this, but it could be a 
problem for people with non-administrative access to their machines.
Maybe the package could provide both type of libraries/linking methods? (the static 
libs aren't that big, anyway...)

And it could be a good idea to send your work to the people from the gnuwin32 project 
at sourceforge ?
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsl.htm
As I get it, it's a kind of "central point" for gnu software windows binaries, and 
it's latest gsl build is 3 years old (although other packages there are much more 
recent!)

But still, thanks again for making this available. I'm a basic gsl user, and I 
presently don't have time to consider building it myself !


John Pye a écrit :
> Hi all
>
> I packaged an installer for GSL 1.13 on MinGW for anyone who might find
> it useful. Basically, you can use this within MinGW/MSYS to avoid having
> to build your own GSL from source.
>
> http://ascendwiki.cheme.cmu.edu/Binary_installer_for_GSL-1.13_on_MinGW
>
> Let me know if you have any feedback on this, either by email, or on the
> wiki above.
>
> Cheers
> JP