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HnxGC Installation

Preparation

(1) Download the 2008 HnxGC Free Evaluation Package;

(2) If your operating system does not support .zip format file, you may need a 3rd-parties utility tool, such as WinZIP or WinRAR, to decompress the downloaded package;

(3) Win32 C++ development environment, such as Microsoft Visual C++ Ver 6.0(98) / 7.1 (2003) / 8.0(2005), Intel(R) C++ 8.1, etc.

Installation

In the 2008 HnxGC Free Evaluation Package, there are a 'include' subdirectory containing C/C++ header files for your application compilation, a C++ library file (HnxGC.lib) for linkage, and a DLL (HnxGC.dll) required for runtime execution.

The steps for installation is very simple, just extract the containing files into a folder, e.g. "C:\Program Files\HnxGC", and you can begin to build your HnxGC C++ applications.

You can also add the one or more path(s) to your the default searching path of your projects or default development environment. For example, you can:

    add "/I C:\Program Files\HnxGC\include" as Compiler Options to search for include files
    add "/LIBPATH:C:\Program Files\HnxGC" as Linker Options to search for library files

or add to environment variables

    add "C:\Program Files\HnxGC\include" to the INCLUDE
    add "C:\Program Files\HnxGC" to the LIB
    add "C:\Program Files\HnxGC" to the PATH

An example settings for VC8 IDE

Herein, we give an example for setting the default search path(s) in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 IDE.

(1) Open the VC++ Directories Options Dialog Box
    From the Tools menu, click Options;
    Expand the Projects and Solutions node;
    Select the VC++ Directories property page.

(2) Add "C:\Program Files\HnxGC\include" as include files searching path

(3) Add "C:\Program Files\HnxGC" as libraries searching path

Build your first HnxGC application

see "Hello World" - begin the first HnxGC program

Error: Application failed to start "HnxGC.dll" not found

If you succeed in building your HnxGC application, but when you run it, get an error message saying:

Error: Application failed to start "HnxGC.dll" not found

That is probably because the HnxGC.dll is not in the execution searching path(s), neither in the current directory nor in the list of "PATH" environment variable.

To solve this problem, you can either distribute HnxGC.dll with your application in the same directory, or put it in one of system-wide searching paths.