../../fftw-3.3-dll32 and ../../fftw-3.3-dll64 are the places to deploy the appropriate 32/64 bit version of the fftw3 libraries under VC++ which can be found here: http://www.fftw.org/install/windows.html More precisely (here in case of the 32 bit version 3.3.5), - you have to create the directory ../../fftw-3.3-dll32 (which is side by side and thus outside of the ngspice source tree) - you have to fetch fftw-3.3.5-dll32.zip and deploy it there - you have to unpack this .zip there At least you need to unpack these three files fftw3.h libfftw3-3.dll libfftw3-3.def Then use vngspice-fftw.vcxproj to compile ngspice If you need to distribute ngspice.exe to another directory, copy the appropriate libfftw3-3.dll into the same directory or to a place which is in your PATH environment. ---- (compile "url=ftp://ftp.fftw.org/pub/fftw for i in fftw-3.3-dll32 fftw-3.3-dll64 ; do dst=../../$i mkdir -p $dst (cd $dst && wget $url/$i.zip && unzip $i.zip) done")