[Coin-discuss] Big Installation-Problems

[Jan-Willem Goossens]

Hi,

I'm happily  using COIN's CLP though OsiClp etc. under Visual Studio 2003. 
NET, so, apart from the gams part, I can testify that it works like a charm, 
just with the normal MS compiler, without changing one line of source code. 
Obviously, it's not a necessity to use the .bat file to build everything.

As mentioned already, you can indeed import the VC6 projects into VS.NET. To 
be safe, whenever I get the latest source codes, I check my projects against 
the makefiles to be sure that I'm still including all the necessary cpp 
files into the projects.

I use the resulting static coin library in another managed C++ project. 
Since it took me a lot of time to find this out : for all of you who want to 
do the same, just be aware that there is a .NET issue with marshalling 
boolean return values from unmanaged virtual functions, which I posted on 
some weeks (or was it already months?) ago..

Jan-Willem



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J P Fasano" <jpfasano at us.ibm.com>
To: "Discussions about open source software for Operations Research" 
<coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 21:13
Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] Big Installation-Problems




> My goal
> is to use COIN under Visual c++.net.

The COIN distribution does not have projects for building with Visual
Studio.Net.

It does have projects for building with Visual Studio Version 6.
See COIN\Win\Readme.txt
It is my understanding that the Version 6 project files will open up in
Visual Studio .Net.

> I downloaded “gnu make-3.80.tar”.

I'm not sure why you are downloading gnu make if you are trying to build
with Visual Studio .Net.
If you want to build with gnu make then you should install cygwin
(www.cygwin.com).

Two days ago I did a complete checkout of COIN and ran make in Coin/Cbc
under cygwin without any problems.

I used cvs instead of the tarball

export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous at www.coin-or.org:2401/home/coin/coincvs
cvs logon
anonymous
cvs checkout COIN
cd COIN/Cbc
make




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