How to compile yarrow PRNG?

[iamstucked]

Dear all,

I am currently trying to implement Yarrow PRNG (designed by Bruce Schneier et al), I downloaded their codes from their website but I am having difficulty compiling it.

I started by double clicking the make file (frontend.mak) and I obtained the following error:
1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'prngcore.lib'

I have search through all the codes and I can't find prngcore.lib as well, does this mean one of the program is missing. The program was initially written by using visual C++ 5.0.

Thanks. Grateful for any help rendered.

imstucked

[donbock]

Have you tried navigating to the prngcore directory and running make on prngcore.mak first?

Hmmm. It looks like higher-level make files such as frontend.mak and testapp.mak seek to build prngcore.mak, but they rely on a particular path structure (for example, \Work\PRNG\yarrow\prngcore). You should follow the advice in "readme - yarrow.txt" and unpack the archive in C:\work\prng\yarrow.

[iamstucked]

Hi donbock,

Thanks for the reply.

Yup, I tried running prngcore.mak and get a different error: 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'th32.lib', I guess I have to download this file first and see what are the changes.

I have unpacked the archive in C:\work\prng\yarrow.

Really thanks for helping me.

[iamstucked]

ok, downloaded th32.lib and run prngcore.mak and now a dialog box appeared to ask me filling in executable file name. Looked through the folder but I can't find any exe files.... erm.... any advice? Thanks for the help.

"
Executable For Debug Session

Please specify the name of the executable file to be used for the debug session.

Executable file name:

_____________

URL where the project can be accessed (ATL Server only)
_____________"

[iamstucked]

I accidentally solved the problem (though I still need to figure out how to see the output!) At least there is no error message now. Thanks for all the help provided!