[Cbc] Building with Visual Studio 2008

[Ted Ralphs]

Hi Iain,

The 2008 project files are surely out of date---I just spent several
days working out the bugs in the new 2010 files and those should work
fine. If possible, I would suggest you just download MSVC++ Express
2010 and use that, as I'm not too keen on more wrestling with MSVC++
anytime soon :). If you can't do that, I can tell you that most of the
errors you are seeing will be corrected if you add

XXX_BUILD

to the list of preprocessor symbols defined, where "XXX" is the
project acronym (in all caps). This is necessary under the new system
we have adopted for configuration header files, which is used in the
latest releases of COIN projects. Even for the projects that are not
currently broken, you should add that symbol, as they may otherwise
break in future releases. That should fix most things. If there are
still errors, post another message. Also, if you want to contribute
the repaired files, that would be great.

Cheers,

Ted

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Iain Dunning <iaindunning at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a lot of trouble trying to build CBC with Visual Studio 2008.
> This happens in 2.7 stable, 2.7.0 release, and trunk.
> What I want to do is build "cbc.exe", but at the moment I'm just trying to
> build the default project, cbcExamplesSample2
>
> The errors I hit are many and varied...
> I suspect some are pre-processor related, others seem more problematic.
> 1. Project libOsi - all fine
> 2. Project libClp
> c:\coin\cbc\clp\src\clphelperfunctions.hpp(16) : fatal error C1189: #error :
>  "don't have header file for math"
> Happens a few times.
> 3. Project libCoinUtils
> c:\coin\cbc\clp\src\clphelperfunctions.hpp(16) : fatal error C1189: #error :
>  "don't have header file for math"
> 4. Project libOsiClp - all fine
> 5. Project libCbcSolver
> ..\..\..\src\unitTestClp.cpp(584) : error C2039: 'fastNodeDepth' : is not a
> member of 'CbcModel'
>         c:\coin\cbc\cbc\src\CbcModel.hpp(99) : see declaration of 'CbcModel'
> ..\..\..\src\unitTestClp.cpp(585) : error C2039: 'setFastNodeDepth' : is not
> a member of 'CbcModel'
>         c:\coin\cbc\cbc\src\CbcModel.hpp(99) : see declaration of 'CbcModel'
> c:\coin\cbc\cbc\src\CbcLinked.hpp(29) : error C2504: 'CbcOsiSolver' : base
> class undefined
> Then a lot of errors follow on from this.
> 7. Project libCgl
> c:\coin\cbc\cbc\src\cbcheuristic.cpp(539) : error C2039:
> 'continuousPriority' : is not a member of 'CbcModel
> c:\coin\cbc\cbc\src\cbcheuristic.cpp(906) : error C2039: 'setFastNodeDepth'
> : is not a member of 'CbcModel'
> c:\coin\cbc\cbc\src\cbcheuristic.cpp(1163) : error C2039: 'setFastNodeDepth'
> : is not a member of 'CbcModel'
> c:\coin\cbc\cbc\src\cbcheuristic.cpp(1164) : error C2039: 'fastNodeDepth' :
> is not a member of 'CbcModel'
> There seems to be issues in the "test" projects, but I don't need those.
> Any idea about how I fix these issues?
> Cheers,
> Iain
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Dr. Ted Ralphs
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