[Cbc] CBC Installer for Windows

[Haroldo Santos]

Hi Alpar,

Yes, I also think that CMAKE would make it easier to compile in different
platforms.

But building CBC (specially with ThirdParty software) looks complex to me, I
don't know how hard it would be to port the entire build process to CMAKE...

Anyway, with the installer I'm trying to build an easy to use "CBC
Distribution" so that you can start to use and study it as fast as possible:
creating menu entries for the important resources and programs, etc...


On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Alpár Jüttner <alpar at cs.elte.hu> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> These kind of questions are always makes me wonder if it would somehow
> be possible to persuade COIN-OR people to abandon autotools in favor of
> CMAKE as a build environment. Not only is it incomparable easier to use
> and maintain, but also it makes installer creation and
> multiplatfom/multicompiler support a trivial task.
>
> Not to mention that the lack of CMAKE support makes it basically
> impossible to integrate the source of CMAKE to other projects. This
> single fact forced us using another (worse performing) solver in many
> projects.
>
> Regards,
> Alpár
>
> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 22:34 -0300, Haroldo Santos wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> >
> > To make it easier for my students to use CBC I wrote an installer for
> > the windows platform.
> >
> >
> > http://www.decom.ufop.br/haroldo/files/cbc-2.6-setup.exe
> >
> >
> > It has the following features:
> >       * installs command line programs and development files
> >       * includes a “Short Command Line User Guide” which I wrote
> >         (compiled in fact, since most of the information comes from
> >         help and discussion lists) so that users can quickly start to
> >         solve their models
> >       * includes development documentation: CBC user guide and a
> >         “printer friendly” class reference manual in PDF
> >
> >
> > If someone else find it useful, I would be happy to hear additional
> > suggestions and test reports. I've tested only in Windows XP for the
> > moment.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
> > Haroldo
> >
> >
> > --
> > =============================================================
> > Haroldo Gambini Santos
> > Computing Department - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto - UFOP
> > email: haroldo [at ] iceb.ufop.br
> > home/research page: www.decom.ufop.br/haroldo/
> >
> > "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy
> > is about telescopes." Edsger Dijkstra
> >
> >
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Haroldo Gambini Santos
Computing Department - Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto - UFOP
email: haroldo [at ] iceb.ufop.br
home/research page: www.decom.ufop.br/haroldo/

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy
is about telescopes." Edsger Dijkstra
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