[Coin-discuss] How to use Osi and Vol in Windows

[Jaime Taube]

To whom it may concern:

I have been working on the development of an
optimization problem (a variant of the classical
Trim-Loss minimization problem)involving a column
gereration approach. The solution has been implemented
in an algebraic modeling language. I would now like to
implement the algorithm in Visual Basic (or C++) using
some of your open source codes. The algorithm involves
the solution of a knap-sack problem with 50 items and
an lp with 50 variables and constraints.

The development platform I am using is Windows 98/NT.
I already installed WinCVS and TCL; logged into the
COIN server and checked out modules OSI and Vol (for
some reason "cvs checkout Clp" doesn't work). 

I don't know where to go from here. I found one
document in adobe and tried to read it without success
(I have adobe reader installed on my computer). Do I
need Visual C++ 6.00 to compile the source codes for
Osi, Vol and Clp? Is there a document with
instructions as of how to do this?

What is the best way to use your library in order to
achieve the goal described above? Since the lp problem
is so small I would gess I simple lp solver would do
it. However, I would like to learn how to use OSI and
VOL so that I could use them in future projects.

I would apreciate some help.

Thanks,

Jaime Taube

PS: found a reference to your site in www.informs.org

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