ADMB Building Source for Windows with Visual Studio

ADMB-12.2
Released July 31, 2020

Describe building ADMB from source for Windows and Visual C++ compilers.

Building Source

Prerequisite — Visual Studio C++ is installed on the local computer.

Download

Download source distribution admb-12.2-src.zip.

Double click downloaded zip file and extract admb directory to C:\admb-12.2\>.
Build

Open Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt window
- For Visual C++ 2015, Double click Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 in Visual Studio Tools.
- For Visual C++ 2017, Double click Developer Command Prompt for VS2017 in Visual Studio Tools.
- For Visual C++ 2019, Double click Developer Command Prompt for VS2019 in Visual Studio Tools.
In the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt window, use the steps below to build ADMB.

Change to admb directory.
```
C:\> cd admb-12.2
```
To build ADMB, use the command below.
```
C:\admb-12.2\> nmake
```
Test

In the Developer Command Prompt window, use the steps below to build and run the examples.

Build examples
```
C:\admb-12.2\> cd examples
C:\admb-12.2\examples\> nmake all
```
Read manuals for more information.

For help and support, contact users@admb-project.org.