[Ifeffit] Compiling under windows

[Scott Calvin]

Thanks Matt! I'll give it a try...

--Scott

>
>Sorry, your earlier message that &max_paths was 256 in 1.2.5a (which
>is indeed true!) somehow got lost in the piles of Ifeffit emails.
>When I wrote earlier that it was 1024, I had increased this on my
>own machine, but that was after the 1.2.5a release.  This
>'super-sized' dll has not been included in any updates -- see below.
>
>I put a couple versions of ifeffit_10.dll at
>     http://cars.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/src/Win32_dlls/
>
>there's a MPATHS_1024 folder with a dll that has &max_paths set to
>1024 (the consts.h used to build is there as well).  I should say I
>_believe_ it has &max_paths set to 1024.  I'm not at a windows
>machine as I post this, so I'm going from time-stamps and from my
>own memory. Assuming it does, this version of ifeffit_10.dll can be
>dropped into C:\Program Files\Ifeffit.  Please let me know what this
>reports for &max_paths and how many paths you can verify work!
>
>Given the memory problems discussed earlier this week, keeping the
>standard distribution at 256 paths seems wise. But I should probably
>make 'supersized' dlls for future releases too (I may need
>reminding!).  Again, it's likely that this larger version will cause
>the sorts of memory problems discussed last week, and that the
>Virtual Memory may need to be increased on some machines.