Walking Randomly

The University of Sheffield recently purchased licenses for the Windows version of the Intel compiler suite and I’m involved in the release to campus process. As part of this, I wrote some basic documentation on how to compile Hello World using the Intel C++ Compiler within Visual Studio Community Edition 2015. Since this may be useful to people outside of University of Sheffield, I reproduce this part of our documentation here.

These notes were prepared using Intel C++ XE  2015 version 15.0.6 and Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 RTM version. Note that there are problems with using this version of Intel C++ and later versions of Visual Studio Community Edition.

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• Launch Visual Studio and click on File->New Project
• Choose Visual C++ -> Win32 Console Application and give your project a name.

• In the Win32 Application wizard, untick Precompiled header and Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) checks and click Finish.

• A skeleton main() function will appear. Modify the code so that it reads

#include 

int main()
{
    std::cout << "Hello World";
    return 0;
}

• Click on Project->HelloWorld Properties and under the C++ -> General section, ensure that Suppress Startup Banner is set to No and click OK. This will ensure that when you compile, you’ll be able to see that it’s the Intel Compiler doing the work rather than Visual Studio C++.

• Click on Project->Intel Compiler->Use Intel C++
• Build and run the code by pressing CTRL F5. You should see something like the following

>------ Build started: Project: HelloWorld, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>  icl /Qvc14 "/Qlocation,link,C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin" /ZI /W3 /Od /Qftz- -D __INTEL_COMPILER=1500 -D WIN32 -D _DEBUG -D _CONSOLE -D _UNICODE -D UNICODE /EHsc /RTC1 /MDd /GS /Zc:wchar_t /Zc:forScope /FoDebug\ /FdDebug\vc140.pdb /Gd /TP HelloWorld.cpp stdafx.cpp
1>
1>  Intel(R) C++ Compiler XE for applications running on IA-32, Version 15.0.6.285 Build 20151119
1>  Copyright (C) 1985-2015 Intel Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Once the compilation has completed, a console window should pop up showing the Hello World output.