new user problems

[Don Ferguson <dferg at uvic dot ca>]

Hello,

I am a TRUE newbie.  I am new to the GSL, C and Microsoft Visual Studio. I am 
running Windows 2000.

I have a number of questions.

1.  I installed a copy of GSL 1.2 obtained from a Simtel site. I was able to 
compile the demo main.c, but when I attempted to build demo.exe I received the 
message

LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file "libgslML.lib"

I believe that I followed all of the instructions in the README.  Where does 
the reference to libgslML.lib, as distinct from libgsl.lib, come from?

2.  Is it possible to use the GSL from the Visual C command line?  If so, how?

3.  Are pre-compiled binaries available for use with the free Borland (version 
5.5) compiler?  If not, does any one have (detailed) instructions on how to 
build and use the binaries?

Any help will be appreciated.

Don Ferguson
Department of Economics
University of Victoria
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2
Canada

Phone: (250) 721-8537
Fax: (250) 721-6214