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# Re: [femm] Reconfiguring Femm to Individual Requirements: How?

- To: femm@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: [femm] Reconfiguring Femm to Individual Requirements: How?
- From: David Meeker <dmeeker@foster-miller.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:35:31 -0400
- Organization: Foster-Miller, Inc.
- References: <9icjil+ltit@eGroups.com>

Douglas@magtech.co.uk wrote:

> What development environment is the 'best' for restructing the Femm
> source code to individual requirements eg VC++, linux C++ compiler
> etc? What libraries are required?
> I'd rather not purchase new support software if I can help it.

> My programming skills are fairly basic so I need some guidance on a
> starting point.

> Douglas Stevenson

Well, the source posted on the femm website is Visual C++ 4. The program ends up using some stuff that is probably specific to vc++, so it would probably be difficult to build it with another compiler. You can load and compile the source on versions of vc++ later than 4 without any problems (at least it works OK with the VC++ 6 Enterprise Edition that I have installed on my work machine). Everything that you need to compile the program with vc++ is included in the source distribution (i.e. no libraries that you have to round up from somewhere else).

While Visual C++ isn't freeware, it isn't all that expensive to acquire. Since I'm a cheapskate, I run the vc++4.0 Standard Edition at home, which came bundled with the book "Essential Visual C++ 4" for about $40 US. The Standard Edition of vc++6 is available new for $82 US at buy.com, and you could probably get a used version on ebay for about $20.

Dave

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