[Cbc] Building with Visual Studio 2008

Thu Jul 21 20:17:32 EDT 2011

Hi Ted,

Checked out Stable 2.7, works great, built it with problems.
I sympathise about the configuration problems - I've hit that one a few
times myself!

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Iain

On 22 July 2011 07:43, Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu> wrote:

> OK, I just went through and re-updated everything. It *should* all be
> fixed now. One of the problems is that we are now supporting 64-bit
> configurations, so there are four total build types and Microsoft
> makes it so very easy to make changes in one configuration and not in
> others by accident. It sometimes does not even save all of your
> changes when you make changes to multiple configurations unless you
> hit the "Apply" button. This seems like an obvious bug. What a
> headache! Can you get a fresh checkout of 2.7 and see if it all works
> now out of the box? Then I will make a new release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ted
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu> wrote:
> > Hi Iain,
> >
> > Sorry about that! These are exactly the kinds of changes that I had to
> > make in dozens of MSVC++ 2010 files to get them working again, but I
> > must have missed some. Let me just try to make the changes and if it
> > looks easier to get the patch from you, I'll let you know. Actually,
> > if it's not too much trouble, you could try just sending the project
> > and solution files you modified in e-mail off-line. I will then make a
> > new release of Cbc with the new files.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ted
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Iain Dunning <iaindunning at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Ted,
> >> I'll give that a go, hopefully that works.
> >> I actually tried VS2010 first - but hit a different problem altogether.
> I'll
> >> give it another go...
> >> Downloading clean from the SVN, release/2.7.0, opening the /v10/
> version,
> >> then building cbcExamplesSample2:
> >>
> >> 3>------ Build started: Project: cbcExamplesSample2, Configuration:
> Debug
> >> Win32 ------
> >> 3>  CbcLinked.cpp
> >> 3>c:\coin\cbc\cbc\src\CbcLinked.hpp(29): error C2504: 'CbcOsiSolver' :
> base
> >> class undefined
> >>
> >> Which I fixed by adding CBC_BUILD to the preprocessor directives.
> >> But then it seems to almost get to the end, before saying:
> >>
> >> 7>  Generating Code...
> >> 7>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libCoinUtils.lib'
> >>
> >> Which I fixed by making "MSVisualStudio\v10\Win32\Debug" an additional
> >> library directory. It then runs fine.
> >> Trying to build the cbc project:
> >>
> >> 4>------ Build started: Project: cbc, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
> >> 4>  CoinSolve.cpp
> >> 4>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libCgl.lib'
> >>
> >> Which I again fixed by adding that directory. It then builds.
> >> I did some more digging around in the options, and I think the issue is
> >> this:
> >> Some projects output to $(SolutionDir)$(Platform)\$(Configuration)\
> >> Other projects output to $(SolutionDir)$(Configuration)\
> >> If I standardise to the $(Platform)\ version, it all works fine (for
> cbc,
> >> still need to add CBC_BUILD to get cbcExamplesSample2 working).
> >> Are you able to use TortoiseSVN-generated patches? Or do you just want
> to
> >> fix it yourself?
> >> Cheers,
> >> Iain
> >>
> >> On 21 July 2011 16:41, Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>> Associate Professor, Lehigh University
> >>> (610) 628-1280
> >>> ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
> >>> coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Iain Dunning
> >> Email:    iaindunning at gmail.com
> >> Web:      www.iaindunning.com
> >> LinkedIn: nz.linkedin.com/in/iaindunning
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Ted Ralphs
> > Associate Professor, Lehigh University
> > (610) 628-1280
> > ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
> > coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Ted Ralphs
> Associate Professor, Lehigh University
> (610) 628-1280
> ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
> coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
>

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Iain Dunning
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