Prepare the Environment

Register the Environment Variables

Before using Intel TBB, you must register the environment variables that are used to locate necessary library and include files as follows:

1. Locate the configuration scripts for your operating system. The scripts are located in the bin directory.
2. Execute the appropriate scripts or set properties for your operating system:
   • On Linux* and OS X* operating systems, from the bin directory, source the tbbvars.[c]sh script. These scripts modify the paths held by the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (OS X), and CPATH variables, and affect only your current shell.
   • On Windows* operating systems, modify your Visual Studio* project build configurations (debug, release) properties as follows:

C/C++ Properties

• General: add an additional include directory:  "$(TBBROOT)\include"

Linker Properties

• General: add an additional library directory (shown for Visual Studio 2005 32-bit library): $(TBBROOT)\lib\ia32\vc8

• Input: add an additional dependency: tbb_debug.lib or tbb.lib

Find the Example File Directories

The default installation locations for the bin, doc, and examples directories used in this document are shown in the following table:

where:

• <composer_version> is the version of the installed Intel® Composer. For example: Composer XE 2013.
• <locale> is the language version abbreviation. For example en_US represents English, United States language version.