- From: r.britten at auckland.ac.nz (Randall Britten)
- Subject: [cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows
- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 19:42:09 +1300
Yes, we will be providing binaries, and yes, grabbing the binaries from
OpenCell's installer should work. The OpenCell installer can actually just
be unzipped (7-zip does this nicely).
Regards,
Randall
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-----Original Message-----
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From: cellml-tools-developers-bounces at cellml.org [mailto:cellml-tools-
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developers-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of Lucian Smith
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Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2010 7:21 p.m.
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To: A list for the developers of CellML tools
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Subject: Re: [cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows
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>
Actually, don't I remember reading in the minutes or something that you
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were considering having a binary distribution of the code? I downloaded
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OpenCell itself; if I used that, along with a snapshot of the code from
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when it was created for #include purposes, should everything work?
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>
-Lucian
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* Randall Britten <r.britten at auckland.ac.nz> [2010-11-18 01:33] writes:
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> Hi Lucian
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> Andrew is quite busy with his PhD at the moment, so I think you will
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only
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> get a comprehensive reply from Andrew in a day or perhaps a few days,
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but I
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> had a brief mail discussion with him, and he suggested a few
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alternatives
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> that you could try:
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>
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> 1) Use the setup tool he created for setting up a windows environment
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for
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> building the CellML-API:
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> http://cellml-api.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/cellml-api/win32-build-
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setup/.
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> Note that it is still a bit rough, and requires more testing, so if you
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do
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> try this, be prepared for retrying a few times, probably preferable if
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you
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> have pristine VM images on stand-by. If you do, it will help us finish
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it
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> off, which will make life easier for developers in future.
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>
>
> 2) If you want to avoid using MSVC, and only use cygwin, then you will
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have
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> to build xul-runner on cygwin from source, since Windows xul-runner
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binaries
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> distributed by Mozilla are usually built using MSVC.
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>
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> 3) Change your app to use the new "TeLICeMS" (available in "head
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revision"
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> of source code repo), which will remove the xul-runner dependency. The
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work
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> on xul-runner support was part of the OpenCell project, but our group
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is no
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> longer working on the OpenCell project, and the new OpenCell project is
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not
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> based on xul-runner. So this is probably the best long term option,
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since
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> it means improves maintainability of the CellML support in your
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application
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> over the next few years. A pain in the short term though.
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>
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> TI's relevant to TeLICeMS:
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> https://tracker.physiomeproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1356
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> and
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> https://tracker.physiomeproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2777
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> Regards,
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> Randall
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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > From: cellml-tools-developers-bounces at cellml.org [mailto:cellml-
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tools-
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> > developers-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of Lucian Smith
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> > Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2010 1:33 p.m.
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> > To: A list for the developers of CellML tools
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> > Subject: [cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows
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> >
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> > So I really really tried to follow the Windows build instructions,
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> > despite
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> > the fact that they are ridiculously arcane, and that they are
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designed to
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> > install in c:/, of all places. I made a cellml-specific version of
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> > Cygwin
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> > (since the instructions morph the install into something completely
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> > unuseable by anybody else), and at first I tried to see if I could
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get it
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> > to work with the most recent versions of automake, etc, since really,
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> > what
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> > the heck. It took forever, and in the end I was not able to get
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> > build/msvc-wrapper to run at all.
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> >
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> > So, I thought to myself, "Well, maybe it really does need the ancient
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> > automakes, etc." so I went through and crippled it, and in the end, I
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> > typed 'aclocal' and it said, "wtf I can't use these ancient versions
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of
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> > automake!" so I gave up. I figured it was only a matter of time
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until
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> > some other dependency incompatibility was discovered.
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> >
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> > So I took a different tack: I tried compiling an honest-to-goodness
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> > Cygwin compile, instead of the weird cygwin/visual studio hybrid
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> > described
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> > in the instructions. My own software compiles on Cygwin, so I
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figured
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> > since the CellML API was really developed for unix anyway, I could
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> > probably get that to work more straightforwardly.
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> >
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> > It configured OK (with some warnings I'll talk about in a second) but
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ran
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> > into troubles with xulrunner. I get the error:
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> >
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> > $ make
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> > mkdir -p ./simple_interface_generators/glue/xpcom
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> > /home/Lucian/CellML/hg/cellml-api/./build/cygwin-wrapper
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> > /home/Lucian/xulrunner-sdk/bin/xpidl -m header -
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I/home/Lucian/xulrunner-
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> > sdk/idl -e simple_interface_generators/glue/xpcom/IWrappedPCM.h
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> > simple_interface_generators/glue/xpcom/IWrappedPCM.idl
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> > .\simple_interface_generators/glue/xpcom/IWrappedPCM.idl:2: can't
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open
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> > included file nsISupports.idl for reading
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> >
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> > This despite the fact that /home/Lucian/xulrunner-
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sdk/idl/nsISupports.idl
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> > exists. So I'm not sure what's going on here.
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> >
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> > Then I tried configuring it without xulrunner, and had much better
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luck.
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> > There were the ominous warnings from 'configure':
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> >
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> > checking libxml/tree.h usability... yes
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> > checking libxml/tree.h presence... no
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> > configure: WARNING: libxml/tree.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected
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by
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> > the preprocessor!
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> > configure: WARNING: libxml/tree.h: proceeding with the compiler's
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result
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> > checking for libxml/tree.h... yes
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> >
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> > and
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> >
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> > checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
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> > checking dlfcn.h presence... no
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> > configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by
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the
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> > preprocessor!
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> > configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
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> > checking for dlfcn.h... yes
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> >
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> > And indeed, it compiled a few things until it tried to include
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> > libxml/tree.h and couldn't find it. I was able to fix this by
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editing
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> > the
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> > makefile from
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> >
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> > LIBXML_CFLAGS =
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> >
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> > to:
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> >
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> > LIBXML_CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/libxml2
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> >
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> > The problem here was that the '-I' bit was mistakenly placed in:
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> >
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> > CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/libxml2 -O2 -ffast-math
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> >
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> > which wasn't being used in that place.
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> >
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> > Then it complained about a nonexistent library 'stlport.5.0'. This I
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> > fixed by changing
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> >
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> > STLLINK = -lstlport.5.0 -no-undefined
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> >
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> > to
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> >
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> > STLLINK = -lstdc++ -no-undefined
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> >
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> > At that point, the whole thing actually compiled! But still without
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> > xulrunner. And with the slightly ominous warnings all over the place:
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> >
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> > libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-
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> > cygwin/4.3.4/../../../libxml2.la' seems to be moved
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> >
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> > despite the fact that it was right there (/us/lib/libxml2.la)
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> >
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> > However! I did a 'make install' into a test directory, and after I
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> > copied
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> > in some cygwin dlls, the test exe's actually ran! I about fell over.
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> >
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> > So at this point, all I need is a way to get the xulrunner-sdk to
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work
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> > under cygwin for your build process. Any ideas? Thanks!
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> >
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> > -Lucian
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- [cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows, Lucian Smith, 11/18/2010
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