[Cbc] Pre-built CBC binaries for trunk?, Also cross-compiling

[Kish Shen]

Sorry for the late response to this....

I have been cross-compile CBC/CLP for Windows on Linux using MinGW (and 
MinGW-W64 for 64 bit windows) for several years now.

We use CBC/CLP in our ECLiPSe platform, for an interface to MIP solvers. 
On Windows, ECLiPSe itself is also cross-compiled with the same MinGW 
compiler, so we do not have to worry about compatibility issues with 
Visual Studio.

ECLiPSe itself is written in C, and aside from being able to load .dll 
files compiled with MinGW, we have had no problems loading thirdparty 
.dll files (which I assume are not compiled with MinGW), and we were 
even able to load a .lib file (for MySQL), after some hacking. However, 
I suspect loading C++ files compiled with Visual Studio might be a 
problem, as you cannot even load a C++ file compiled with a different 
version of gcc from the host program.

Regards,

Kish


On 30/01/2013 21:40, James.Gunning at csiro.au wrote:
> Bo,Ted, All,
>      Thanks for the info. As you say, it looks rather nontrivial (and your compatibity criteria is a harder
> target than my modest efforts in other contexts). As Ted says, looks like a deal of hard work.
> I just thought it might be useful, if like, me you like simple ways of building for multiple targets...
> Regards,
>      James.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Bo Jensen [jensen.bo at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:08 AM
> To: Ted Ralphs
> Cc: Gunning, James (CESRE, Clayton North); cbc at list.coin-or.org
> Subject: Re: [Cbc] Pre-built CBC binaries for trunk?, Also cross-compiling
>
> I did some experiments cross compiling with mingw some years ago, I don't remember the exact details other than it failed on lack of some parts like wchar_t and other features I needed. My conclusion was it was not worth the trouble.
>
> http://www.mingw.org/wiki/wide_characters
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu<mailto:ted at lehigh.edu>> wrote:
> Here are (some of) the additional details I was referring to:
>
>   http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSVC_and_MinGW_DLLs
>
> Last time I tried, it seemed onerous to get all of this working in a completely automatic way, but it would be great.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ted
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu<mailto:ted at lehigh.edu>> wrote:
> I have played with cross-compilation, but it was never exactly clear to me how to build libraries that are compatible with Visual Studio using MinGW. There seem to be some additional steps involved besides just straight compiling with the autotools. If this is indeed a viable option and you can advise, that would be great!
>
> Ted
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:54 AM, <James.Gunning at csiro.au<mailto:James.Gunning at csiro.au>> wrote:
> Hi All,
>        While we're on the topic, which interests me, has anyone succeeded in building the
> windows versions by mingw cross-compiling?
> On Fedora linux, at least, these cross compilers (& packages) come with names like
> i686-pc-mingw-g++
> and they have been very useful to me in building windows libs etc (in other codes) without the Visual Studio dramas etc.
> Perhaps of interest to anyone wanting to assemble scripts for automatic nightly builds, or the like....
> Best wishes all,
>          James.
>
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> Subject: Re: [Cbc] Pre-built CBC binaries for trunk?
>
> Would be nice to have up to date osx versions as well.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:11 AM, Watson, Jean-paul <jwatson at sandia.gov<mailto:jwatson at sandia.gov><mailto:jwatson at sandia.gov<mailto:jwatson at sandia.gov>>> wrote:
> Not being one who wants to deal with Visual Studio and Windows builds, are there pre-built CBC binaries (nightly) for trunk available? The binaries at www.coin-or.org/download/binary/Cbc<http://www.coin-or.org/download/binary/Cbc><http://www.coin-or.org/download/binary/Cbc> are strictly released / tagged versions.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jean-Paul
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