Windows

Open project | properties in Microsoft Visual Studio.

• C/C++ | Code Generation | Enable C++ Exceptions, should be Yes.
• C/C++ | Code Generation | Runtime Library, should be set to Multithreaded DLL or Debug Multithreaded DLL.
• C/C++ | General | Additional Include Directories add the root quickfix directory.
• Linker | Input | Additional Dependencies, must contain quickfix.lib and ws2_32.lib.
• Linker | General | Additional Library Directories, add the quickfix/lib directory.

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Linux/Solaris

• Exceptions must be enabled with -fexceptions
• The -finline-functions optimization is recommended.
• Quickfix library must be linked in with -lquickfix
• Quickfix makes use of pthreads and libxml. These must be linked in with -lpthread, -lxml2 and -lz
• On Solaris you must link with -lnsl and -lsocket
• GNU ld is a one-pass linker. Put more generally useful libraries (libsocket) last on the command line.