CGAL 4.2 beta1 released

Changelog

Installation

• Additional supported platforms:
  • The Microsoft Windows Visual C++ compiler 2012 (VC11) is now supported.
• With Microsoft Visual C++ (all supported versions), the compiler flags /bigobj and /wd4503 are added by CGAL CMake scripts.
• This is the last release whose “UseCGAL.cmake” file (if using CGAL in a CMake build environment) contains the line

        link_libraries(${CGAL_LIBRARIES_DIR} ${CGAL_3RD_PARTY_LIBRARIES_DIRS})
  

  as this is a deprecated CMake command. The correct way to link with CGAL’s libraries (as for required 3rd party libraries) is to use ‘target_link_libraries’ which specifies for each build target which libraries should be linked. The following serves as example:

        find_package(CGAL)
        include(${CGAL_USE_FILE})
        add_executable(myexe main.cpp)
        target_link_libraries(myexe ${CGAL_LIBRARIES}
                                    ${CGAL_3RD_PARTY_LIBRARIES})
  

  We also expect further changes in CGAL’s CMake setup (change of variable names, consistency of filename and output, removing essential libraries, building executables, removal of ‘${CGAL_3RD_PARTY_LIBRARIES}’).

2D Arrangements

• Enhanced the 2D-arrangements demonstration program and ported it to Qt4. The new demonstration program makes use of the CGAL Graphics View framework, in which the 2D primitives are individually represented as objects in a scene. (The implementations of several demos in CGAL already make use of this framework.) This project was carried out as part of the 2012 Google Summer of Code program.
• Fixed a bug in the Walk-Along-A-Line point location strategy for arrangements induced by unbounded curves.

2D Circular Geometry Kernel

• Fixed the intersection type computed when intersecting two identical circles.
• Forward correctly the result type of the linear kernel functors

2D Triangulations

• Added mechanism to avoid call stack overflow in Delaunay_triangulation_2 and Constrained_Delaunay_triangulation_2.
• Added a constructor for Regular_triangulation_2 and Delaunay_triangulation_2 from a range of points or a range of points with info.

2D Voronoi Diagram Adaptor

• Bug-fix: Added ccb() method in face type as documented.

3D Minkowski Sum of Polyhedra

• Fixed a memory leak.

3D Fast Intersection and Distance Computation

• Updated requirements of the concepts AABBTraits and AABBGeomTraits to match the implementation of the package.

Generator

• Addition of the Combination_enumerator.

STL Extensions

• Introduction of CGAL::cpp11::result_of as an alias to the tr1 implementation from boost of the result_of mechanism. When all compilers supported by CGAL will have a Standard compliant implemention of the C++11 decltype feature, it will become an alias to std::result_of.

Surface Reconstruction from Point Sets

• Performance improvements and addition of an option to better reconstruct undersampled zones. The poisson reconstruction plugin of the Polyhedron demo has an option to switch it on.