Bloodshed Dev-Cpp with GSL

[Adam Johansen <amj26 at hermes dot cam dot ac dot uk>]

Hello There,

Has anybody on this list managed to make use of the GSL with the 
Bloodshed Dev-cpp compiler for Windows[1]?

I've tried using the pre-compiled Visual C++ version, which looks as 
though its works by appears to die whenever a gsl function is called 
with an "Access Violation (Segmentation Fault)" under Windows XP / 
Devcpp 4.9.8.0 / GSL 1.3 although I've made minimal changes to the code 
relative to the linux version which runs perfectly (and I don't /think/ 
any of these should matter, as they don't affect GSL except via the 
occasional change of / to \). The first gsl routine which I'm calling is 
rng_env_setup() followed by rngT = gsl_rng_default; gsl_rng_allloc(rngT);

Not really knowing that much about Windows programming these days, the 
next obvious step appeared to be to try compiling the library from 
source. I attempted to import the Visual C project files, changed the 
project type from executable to DLL (this was incorrectly detected by 
the compiler) and tried compiling. The GSL project doesn't make it very 
far before failing with a stream of errors in the "block_source.c" file.

The first of these is a parse error before "FUNCTION" on line 21.

I know I haven't provided a huge amount of detail here, but I'm not sure 
what's going to be useful and what's just going to clog up the list so 
let me know if there's anything I can usefully tell you.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give,
Adam Johansen

[1] /I know/. I'm attempting to port a perfectly good linux 
implementation for my boss.