On the MinGW side, what you are running into is likely an incompatibility with compiler versions. I built the MinGW libraries with the only version of MinGW GCC that I was ever able to get to reliably build the entire CoinAll suite. If I'm not mistaken, the binaries for that version are still available here:<br>
<br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/gcc/Version4/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Base/gcc/Version4/Previous%20Testing_%20gcc-4.2.1-sjlj%20-2/</a><br>
<br>I guess that a lot of these problems will go away if you use this version of the compiler. A second tip if you want to make sure you are building with all the right compiler options and linking all the right libraries is to start using pkg-config. It looks as though you can get a stand-alone Windows version here:<br>
<br><a href="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/">http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/</a><br><br>though I have never tried it. All of the projects have .pc files in <install_dir>/lib/pkgconfig. These files contain all dependency information, as well as command-line options for the compiler. You can easily parse these files by hand, but the dependencies are built up recursively, so it takes a little work and pkg-config will do that all for you. There is information on how to construct Makefiles that leverage pkg-config support here:<br>
<br><a href="https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/user-examples#LinkingyourCodewithCOIN-ORLibraries">https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/user-examples#LinkingyourCodewithCOIN-ORLibraries</a><br><br>I am not certain that the Applications Template examples have Makefiles that include support for pkg-config, but they might. Another alternative is that there is a file <br>
<br><install_dir>/share/coin/doc/XXX/xxx_addlibs.txt<br><br>that contains the output of running a pkg-config query for the command line options to link to the library of project XXX. <br><br>Having said all of that, I think you're better off in the long-run working with source and building your own libraries if you know your way around the command line (which you seem to). If you build from source, configure will produce examples with custom built Makefiles that will work out of the box and that you can easily modify to suit your needs. If you download the CoinAll source distribution (or better yet, check it out from subversion), you will see directories <build_dir>/XXX/examples with automatically generated Makefiles that will build the corresponding examples from <src_dir>/XXX/examples. I guess we should probably just install the example Makefiles and sources along with the distribution...<br>
<br>I have been playing around with getting CoinAll to build with the latest and greatest version of the MinGW compilers, but if I recall, my last attempt still failed. Most likely, it was due to problems with the Fortran compiler, which may not concern you. If you just want Cbc, it should probably build fine. If you run into problems with another project like Ipopt, then you can set COIN_SKIP_PROJECTS to avoid that one or just get the Cbc distribution separately. I am interested in being able to build with the latest MinGW compilers myself, so if you are willing to give it a go, I will provide as much support as I can.<br>
<br>And yes, all of this information should be on a wiki somewhere and not hidden on this low-traffic mailing list :). Hope this helps!<br><br>Ted<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 2:24 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:acw@ascent.com" target="_blank">acw@ascent.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font face="sans-serif">The Application Templates project looks
very helpful, especially if it is more up-to-date. The canned applications
referred to in CoinEasy are not sufficient for our needs; for reasons that
aren't really germane here, we have to add some code and call the COIN
API, so we have to either build from source or compile against libraries.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif">I don't know if, given the existence
of the Applications Template project, it makes sense to continue to try
to get the "Osiexample" build to complete. I can report
the next step, though. We changed -lCoin to -lCoinUtils, and now
at least the build does something. What it does is spit out almost
4000 lines of undefined symbol errors. These are of two kinds: there
are the gxx_personality/SjLj errors, that indicate a mismatch in exception-handling
technology; I'm not sure what to do about those. And then there are
COIN-internal symbols, which probably indicate that I have missing libraries
in my LIB_FLAGS. I'm guessing that new dependencies have appeared
since this example was promulgated, but I don't know how to figure out
which libraries to add. Perhaps the answer to these questions is
"Use the Application Templates instead; they are less moth-eaten."
Thoughts?</font>
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</td><td><font face="sans-serif" size="1">Ted Ralphs <ted@Lehigh.EDU></font>
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<td><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Date:</font>
</td><td><font face="sans-serif" size="1">06/29/2012 01:03 PM</font>
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<td><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Subject:</font>
</td><td><font face="sans-serif" size="1">Re: [CoinBinary] Missing library, building
example under MinGW</font></td></tr></tbody></table>
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<br><font size="3">That seems to just be a mistake in the Makefile. It should
be CoinUtils. There is no libCoin. This zip file is quite old and there
have been changes that should make some of this easier, such as support
for the use of pkg-config. Alaos, we have not been very good in general
at keeping all of this sort of thing up to date and making it obvious and
easy how to get started. Too much to do and not enough manpower. <br>
<br>
A few years back, we started another project called CoinEasy, which was
supposed to be the single entry point for new users that explained how
to get started, but as with everything, it has been difficult to to keep
it up and we have not publicized it well. Nevertheless, it is probably
a better starting point than what you're working with.<br>
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</u></font><a href="https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinEasy" target="_blank"><font color="blue" size="3"><u>https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinEasy</u></font></a><font size="3"><br>
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There is a project called "application templates" pointed to
on the CoinEasy page that has a more complete set of examples, Makefiles,
etc. <br>
</font><font color="blue" size="3"><u><br>
</u></font><a href="https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinBazaar/wiki/Projects/ApplicationTemplates" target="_blank"><font color="blue" size="3"><u>https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinBazaar/wiki/Projects/ApplicationTemplates</u></font></a><font size="3"><br>
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Please feel free to post additional questions and we'll try to use that
as motivation to get some of this cleaned up :).<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Ted<br>
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<br><font size="3">On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:46 PM, <</font><a href="mailto:acw@ascent.com" target="_blank"><font color="blue" size="3"><u>acw@ascent.com</u></font></a><font size="3">>
wrote:</font>
<br><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="3">I downloaded
and installed the CoinAll binary distribution on my generic Windows XP
desktop. I installed MinGW first, and chose the MinGW distribution
on the download page.</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><br>
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The command-line binaries seem to work fine.</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><br>
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But when I try to work the example given on the CoinBinary wiki project
page, I run into trouble. In particular I am trying to build the
one called "Osiexample". I have MinGW g++, so I'm typing
"make -f Makefile.Osiexample". (The NMakefile wants to
use the Visual Studio compiler.)</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><br>
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I had to adjust COIN_DIR and COIN_INC_DIR a little because the arrangement
of directories is not exactly the same as the example expects. This
wasn't a problem.</font><font size="3"> </font><font face="sans-serif" size="3"><br>
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My problem is that the build fails looking for the library libCoin.a. I
looked in the directory win32-mingw-gcc4.2.1/lib, and it's just not there.
CoinMP, yes. CoinUtils, yes. Just plain Coin, no.</font><font size="3">
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Does anyone have a suggestion? Thank you.</font><font size="3"> <br>
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