Question

I have Symbolic C++ (the version that can integrate with V, there is no documentation on how to install it. I got it from this website and it has examples of how it work:

http://issc.uj.ac.za/symbolic/symbolic.html

Does anyone have any idea on how to install this to use with my projects in Visual Studio?

Answer 1

Maybe a late answer, but may still be useful for others.

For *nix systems:

There are two versions:

[1] Tarball that do not need to be installed in your system:  

http://issc.uj.ac.za/symbolic/sources/SymbolicC++3-3.35.tar.gz

[2] Library, intended to be installed in your system: 

http://issc.uj.ac.za/symbolic/sources/SymbolicC++3-3.35-ac.tar.gz

Y opted for library. Now, extract the tarball and then, from the README file:

This project attempts to extract the parts of SymbolicC++ that can
be compiled as part of a library and so create the include / library
infrastructure. The src and include directories are populated by
scripts from the SymbolicC++ header files.

== Installation to /usr/local ===============================================

To install to /usr/local:

  ./configure
  make
  make install

To compile a program using SymbolicC++ with GCC:

  g++ -o program program.cpp -lsymbolicc++

To run the program:

  ./program

A brief PDF document describing SymbolicC++ is provided (doc/introsymb.pdf)
and is installed as /usr/local/share/doc/SymbolicC++.pdf.

Here a simple example(from Wikipedia, do work!):

#include <iostream>
#include "symbolicc++.h"
using namespace std;

int main(void)
{
  Symbolic x("x");
  cout << integrate(x+1, x) <<endl;       // => 1/2*x^(2)+x
  Symbolic y("y");
  cout << df(y, x) << endl;               // => 0
  cout << df(y[x], x) << endl;            // => df(y[x],x)
  cout << df(exp(cos(y[x])), x) << endl ; // => -sin(y[x])*df(y[x],x)*e^cos(y[x])
  return 0;
}

Visual studio

There is a special version for VS:

http://issc.uj.ac.za/symbolic/sources/SymbolicC++3-3.35-vc.zip

I hope this helps!