Installation

Required software

Additionally to the FeatureC++ binary you need a C++ compiler to compile fc++ generated C++ files. The easiest way to compile the examples is to use the existing Makefiles that use the GNU g++ compiler.
For most of the examples you need make but you can also run fc++ manually. On Windows OS you can get make by installing the cygwin package.

If you do not have a C++ compiler you can use gcc (on windows also included in the cygwin package). Also Microsofts C++ compiler can be used or search for any other free C++ compiler.

Installation

• If you downloaded an archive, extract the fc++ binary.
• Add the binary to the PATH environment variable or store it in a folder that is part of your PATH.

• Type fc++ on the command line. It should print some info message.
• Try to execute some examples or follow the hello world example. The Makefiles of the examples invokes fc++ as well as the compiler/linker.
• Manual invocation of FeatureC++: fc++ <equation-file>.

Using MS Visual Studio

1. Create a Makefile Projekt and use MS NMake or GNU make. This is needed because the Visual Studio built-in compilation process requires a fixed set of surce files. However, if the configuration of your project changes, different source files will be generated. To compile these files you would have to modify your project manually every time you change your configuration.

2. When using a Makefile, MS Visual Studio will start make and compile the files given in the Makefile. By using wildcards (e.g., *.cpp) you can compile all generated files also when they are changing for different configurations. See the examples to get an idea of how a GNU Makefile might look like.