Documentation for QuickFIX/C++ (with Python and Ruby)

Getting Started

Setting Up Your Project

Windows

Open Project | Properties in Microsoft Visual Studio.

• C/C++ | Code Generation | Enable C++ Exceptions — set to Yes
• C/C++ | Code Generation | Runtime Library — 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

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 (e.g. libsocket) last on the command line.