[Coin-discuss] Testing CBC behavior

[Hart, William E]

I hadn't thought of using 'nm'.  That should work on Linux boxes.

--Bill


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashutosh Mahajan [mailto:asm4 at Lehigh.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 10:55 AM
> To: Hart, William E
> Cc: coin-discuss at list.coin-or.org >> Discussions about open source
> software for Operations Research
> Subject: Re: [Coin-discuss] Testing CBC behavior
> 
> assuming cbc headers are installed, a way of knowing is to search for
> the
> following string in include/coin/config_cbc.h.
> 
> /* If defined, the Ampl Solver Library is available. */
> #define COIN_HAS_ASL 1
> 
> or you can do:
> nm --defined-only bin/cbc | grep fg_read_ASL
> which is pretty ugly as well.
> 
> It would be nicer though, if there was a commandline option that
> displays this
> information.
> --
> regards
> Ashutosh Mahajan
> http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~asm4
> 
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:31:27AM -0700, Hart, William E wrote:
> > Hello, all:
> >
> > I build option for CBC is to link with the AMPL Solver Library.  This
> is
> > nice, since it allows CBC to directly parse *.nl files.
> >
> > I'm developing a wrapper that calls CBC, and I'm wondering if there
> is a way
> > to test CBC to see if a cbc executable has been built with the AMPL
> Solver
> > Library.  I can try it out and see if it fails, but that's and
> unpleasant
> > alternative...
> >
> > --Bill
> >
> >
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