[Coin-discuss] Problem with MinGW

[Laszlo Ladanyi]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Eduardo F. Silva wrote:

> 
> Thanks for fast replay.
> I am certainly going to follow your suggestions and I am happy also to know
> that you intend to have a Coin road map settings for managed make projects.
> I believe it may increase the Coin portability.  
>  
> By the way, I have just got a paper accepted in "Mathematical Programming"
> where I reported the use of COIN-OR/BCP. I made references to COIN-OR as
> well as a thankful note to Coin-OR Team
> (http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10107-006-0716-6).
> 

Thanks! :-)

--Laci

> Thanks again,
> 
> Eduardo. 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org
> [mailto:coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of Ted Ralphs
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 5:54 PM
> To: Discussions about open source software for Operations Research
> Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] Problem with MinGW
> 
> A while back, I compiled COIN under Eclipse with CYGWIN and it worked
> fine using the COIN build system (i.e., Standard Make C++ Project). In
> theory, the same should be true with MinGW, but the COIN build system is
> not yet set up to recognize the MinGW environment (i.e., there is no
> Makefile.MINGW). This is relatively easy to fix, as long as you only
> want to use gcc as your compiler, since the options are essentially
> identical to those that work in CYGWIN. We were in the process of fixing
> this and also adding the ability to build with Microsoft's compiler with
> GNU make under MinGW, when we decided that the best solution would be to
> just start using the GNU autotools, which would take care of all this
> stuff for us.
> 
> We are currently in the process of converting to the use of the
> autotools, so you may have to wait just a little while longer for
> automated MinGW build support, unless someone wants to add a temporary
> fix to the current build system to detect the MinGW/gcc environment.
> This should not be hard and I may be able to do it if there is a need
> for it. In any case, however, I would strongly suggest not trying to use
> the Managed Make C++ Project option with COIN. It will almost surely
> fail, as there are lots of compiler defines and special options needed
> to build COIN.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ted
> 
> Eduardo F. Silva wrote:
> > Hi Marco,
> > 
> > Thanks for the good news.  I am also trying to bring my COIN projects from
> > MSVC++ to MingW.  Are you (or someone else) using Eclipse/CDT?
> > 
> > May I ask you if you have any important remarks to help setting the
> > environment?
> > I mean, for example, compiler options, setting symbols for coin to
> identify
> > the OS/Compiler as in CoinSignal.hpp, or even if you recommend managed or
> > standard(using COIN makefiles) c++ projects.
> > I think that using managed projects (makefiles automatically generated)
> may
> > be better because would be easier to change compiler tools(for example,
> > setting eclipse with Microsoft C++ toolkit (free)). However, setting the
> > programming environment may be painful.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Eduardo.      
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org
> > [mailto:coin-discuss-bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of Marco Tacconi
> > Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:16 PM
> > To: coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org
> > Subject: [Coin-discuss] Problem with MinGW
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > good news: I have upgraded COIN-OR with the tarball COIN_2006May08 and 
> > now my application is not running out of memory anymore.
> > 
> > But the issue about "-ansi" flag still open.
> > 
> > Regards.
> > 
> > Marco Tacconi
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> -- 
> Dr. Ted Ralphs
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> Industrial and Systems Engineering
> Lehigh University
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