ADMB Building Source with Visual Studio

ADMB-13.2
Released March 15, 2024

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-13.2-src.zip.

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

In the Windows Start Menu, double click Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt shortcut in Visual Studio Tools folder.

In the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt window, use the commands below to build ADMB.

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

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

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

Help

For help and support, please post on the ADMB Discussions.