Version 5.0 The LEDA User Manual

Preparations
To install LEDA you only need to execute the LEDA distribution file
LEDA---win32-.exe. During setup you can choose
the name of the LEDA root directory and the parts of LEDA you want to install.
Then you have to set the environment variable LEDAROOT as follows:
1. Windows NT/2000/XP: On these platforms LEDARROOT is set automatically to the
directory where you installed LEDA by the setup program.
2. Windows 95/98:
(a) Add the line set LEDAROOT= to the file ”autoexec.bat” where
is the root directory of your LEDA installation, e.g., D:\LEDA-4.4\
(b) Restart Windows 95/98 for the change to take effect.
Files and Directories
To compile and link your programs with LEDA, the LEDA main directory should contain
at least the following files and subdirectories:
Readme.txt
Install\win32 bcc dll.txt
incl\
man html\
Readme File
txt–version of this section
the LEDA include directory
HTML version of the LEDA user manual
and the following dll/library set
• leda.dll, leda.lib, libGeoW.lib
Note: A DLL of GeoWin is currently not available.
Compiling and Linking Application Programs
(a) Setting the Environment Variables for Borland C++:
• Make sure that that the directory containing bcc32.exe is contained in your
path. bcc32.exe is located in the \bin subdirectory of your compiler (, e.g.,
c:\programs\borland\cbuilder6\bin)
• Make sure that there is a file bcc32.cfg in the \bin subdirectory of your
compiler which sets the compiler options for the Include and Lib paths (-I and
-L switches of compiler). On the authors machine the following lines had to be
added to bcc32.cfg:
-I"c:\programs\Borland\cbuilder6\include"
-L"c:\programs\Borland\cbuilder6\lib"