Compilation of giac with Visual C++ Express Studio 2009 (the free version) 1/ Install visual c++ http://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/express/aa975050.aspx 2/ Install gmp for visual c++ 3/ Untar giac (tar xvfz giac-x.x.x.tar.gz). Copy config.h.vcc to config.h in the src directory 4/ Create a giac directory inside Visual C++ include directory and copy all *.h files from src to the visual c++ giac directory A/ Method 1 from inside visual c++ IDE 4/ Create a new giaclib project: static library. Overwrite giaclib.vcproj from this directory after editing it for path replacements 5/ Generate the library with nodefaultlib (project options) 6/ You can check a little program using the library with another project and the source file src/giac_oo.cpp B/ Method 2 from inside cygwin if installed 4/ From the Visual c++ command line run cygwin with \cygwin\cygwin 5/ go in the giac src directory 6/ make -f Makefile.vcc 7/ You can compile giac_oo.cpp cl /Zi /I. /EHsc giac_oo.cpp giac_oo.lib gmp.lib