[Cbc] CBC and MathProg on Windows

[Stefan Vigerske]

Hi,

> I just tested Cbc with GMPL support and it seems to work. In Unix-like
> environments with the autotools, it is only necessary to run the ./get.Glpk
> script in ThirdParty/Glpk prior to configuration and also add
>
> --enable-gnu-packages
>
> as an argument to configure (not sure this last one is necessary, but it
> can't hurt.

With Cbc >= 2.7.2, the only effect of this option is to enable readline 
support for the cbc commandline.

Stefan

> This will build Cbc with support for GMPL. Then you can call it
> with
>
> cbc sample.mod%sample.dat
>
> where the file names for the data and model files are separated by a "%"
> symbol.
>
> In Windows, you should be able to just open the Cbc solution file, add the
> GLPK project to the solutin and add "COIN_HAS_GLPK" to the list of
> preprocessor defines. I haven't tried this myself, but it should work fine.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ted
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jim Levis<jwlevis at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Can anyone point me to good step-by-step guide for configuring CBC to
>> read MathProg files in Windows? Is there are way to do it with
>> binaries, or do you need to compile CBC and GLPK together? Finally, is
>> using CBC directly with MathProg much more efficient than using GLPK
>> to write an MPS file and then solving with CBC?
>>
>> Thanks.
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