Re: Installing GSL on Windows to use with Visual Studio Code

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Vicet, the GSL home page points to a support page for several methods to
build on Windows.  Did you see this?

"Several people have contributed tools to allow GSL to be easily built on
Windows platforms. More information can be found here:"
https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/extras/native_win_builds.html


On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 1:03 AM Vicent Giner Bosch <vigibos@eio.upv.es>
wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Nov 2021 at 01:16, William Oquendo <woquendo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I do not use windows, but I would try some package manager, like
> chocolatey or vcpkg as follows:
> >
> > Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/GnuWin/0.6.3
> > vcpkg:
> https://solarianprogrammer.com/2020/01/26/getting-started-gsl-gnu-scientific-library-windows-macos-linux/
>
>
> Dear William,
>
> Thank you for your answer.
>
> Requirements for installing `vcpkg` are these
> (https://vcpkg.io/en/getting-started.html):
>
> - Windows 7 or newer
> - Git
> - Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 or newer
>
> I can try this, but first I would like to be certain there is no
> easier way (installing Visual Studio to not really use it seems a lot
> to me!).
>
> [ Why is it so complicated to install and use a third-party library in C??
> ]
>
> Regards,
> --
> vicent
>