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Threading Building Blocks Template for Visual Studio Now Available

By Kevin Farnham (107 posts) on February 25, 2008 at 7:28 pm

Installing and configuring Threading Building Blocks for use in developing Windows applications using Visual Studio is getting easier, thanks to Dave Vanden Bout, owner of the /// Parallelism Panorama /// blog. In his latest entry, "Making TBB a bit easier...", Dave talks about and offers for download a TBB project template for Visual C++ 2005. Using the template simplifies the process of setting up a new TBB-related project in Visual C++.

Here's Dave's description:

I don't like having to manually set the various properties in order to get a TBB program to compile. So I built a Visual C++ 2005 project template that does it for me. All I have to do is click on the New Project button, select Win32 as the project type and Win32 Console Application using TBB as the template. That automatically sets the properties to use TBB and presents a top-level .cpp file that already contains the TBB include files.

Dave provides a download of the installer for his TBB project template: Dave's TBB Visual C++ Project Template

With Dave's permission, I plan to make this also available on the TBB Sourceforge site.

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Categories: Open Source, Parallel Programming, Threading Building Blocks

Comments (1)

February 25, 2008 7:48 PM PST Dave Vanden Bout

I should post a warning: the installer is for Visual C++ 2005 **Express** Edition. I don't know what it will do to the full (i.e. non-Express) version. It might just create a few extraneous directories that will get ignored. I don't have the full version of Visual C++ 2005, so I can't tell what it will do.

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