This project has begun being ported to Windows.  A working solution
file exists in this directory:
    google-perftools.sln

You can load this solution file into either VC++ 7.1 (Visual Studio
2003) or VC++ 8.0 (Visual Studio 2005) -- in the latter case, it will
automatically convert the files to the latest format for you.

When you build the solution, it will create a number of unittests,
which you can run by hand (or, more easily, under the Visual Studio
debugger) to make sure everything is working properly on your system.
The binaries will end up in a directory called "debug" or "release" in
the top-level directory (next to the .sln file).

Note that these systems are set to build in Debug mode by default.
You may want to change them to Release mode.

To use tcmalloc_minimal in your own projects, you should only need to
build the dll and install it someplace, so you can link it into
further binaries.  Note that the tcmalloc DLL is compiled with
the "Multithreaded DLL" CRT library -- this is required so we can
override malloc in user applications.  This means, to use the tcmalloc
DLL, your applcation must link in the "Multithreaded DLL" CRT library
as well.  (It is a TODO to try to remove this restriction in the
future.)

You can also link tcmalloc code in statically -- see the example
project tcmalloc_minimal_unittest-static, which does this.  For this
to work, you'll need to add "/D PERFTOOLS_DLL_DECL=" to the compile
line of every perftools .cc file.  For reasons I don't fully
understand yet, you still need to use the "DLL" CRT library even when
statically linking.  Again, you can look at the
tcmalloc_minimal_unittest-static project, which does this.

I have little experience with Windows programming, so there may be
better ways to set this up than I've done!  If you run across any
problems, please post to the google-perftools Google Group, or report
them on the google-perftools Google Code site:
   http://groups.google.com/group/google-perftools
   http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/issues/list

-- craig