Re: [igraph] Easier way to compile igraph on Windows?

[Szabolcs Horvát]

My mistake was that I was looking at the sources on GitHub.  If I download the 0.7.1 package from http://igraph.org/c/#downloads, it (sort of) works with MSVC.  The 0.8.0 nightly packages for MSVC do not work.

I had to do this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26579997/igraph-c-compiling-link-errors-in-visual-studio  and also make sure the macro snprintf was not defined (for Visual Studio 2015).  

Now my question is:  How is the MSVC source package created?  How can I create such a package from the sources on GitHub, so I can used the weighted layout algorithms that were added since 0.7.1?

On 4 September 2015 at 15:40, Szabolcs Horvát <address@hidden> wrote:

Dear All,

Are there any precompiled packages available for Windows, usable for C development with igraph?

Or is there at least something that avoids having to install all of cygwin, automake, autoconf2.5, libtool, flex, bison, etc. as described in the INSTALL.WINDOWS file and allows compiling with the free Microsoft compiler?  I'm assuming some of these tools generate source code (I might be wrong) and that perhaps some of this code can be pre-generated.

I don't have a Windows machine, and I would like to minimize the amount of stuff that need to be installed to compile something with igraph on another machine.

Szabolcs