Got it Jack, so I will follow your instruction to go to that url and do it the hard way
and see whether libgretl.h and libgretl.lib files can be generated. It's a little bit
inconvinent because I am not so familiar with compiling with Makefile, but thank you so
much!
Lake
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From: Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it>
To: da wang <dawang2002(a)yahoo.com>; Gretl development
<gretl-devel(a)lists.wfu.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] where is libgretl.h?
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012, da wang wrote:
From my understanding of gretl on Windows, once I
run gretl-1.9.7.exe, it should install gretl GUI and libgretl automatically,
right? libgretl is for people who want to write their own C++ program to compile and link
with gretl, right? But where is libgretl.h and possibly libgretl.lib after
running gretl-1.9.7.exe? Are they supposed to be simple to find?
It's not exactly like that: the exe installer just install the complied version of the
library, the one which the application needs to execute the libgretl functions. In order
to build a C application that uses libgretl, you need to download the source. You may find
this page useful:
http://gretlwiki.econ.univpm.it/wiki/index.php/How_to_compile_gretl_on_Wi...
HTH
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti