[Coin-ipopt] Re: AMPL interface for IPOPT Fortran Version (on Windows)

[Andreas Waechter]

Rajendra,

You wrote:

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I followed the same instructions you mentioned in the previous mail I am
getting the following errors when I run ./configure command in
/home/pvr/COIN/ipopt/ directory.



E281527 at ie10dtxp8rsz81s /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/pvr/coin/ipopt
$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking for icc... no
checking for cl... cl
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C
compiler
 cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

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The output says that configure found 'cl' as the C compiler - 'cl' is the
name of the native Microsoft C compiler.  It is possible to build the
Ipopt AMPL executabe using those compilers (if you also have a Fortran
compiler), but it is more complicated, and it is hard to give advice
without knowing your local setup.

You can tell the configure script directly what compilers should be used.
To build the Ipopt AMPL executable in Cygwin with the GNU compilers (which
is easier), you can use the command

./configure CC=gcc F77=g77
Please give that a try and let us know if that works, so that I can update
the Windows installation documentation.

Thanks

Andreas

PS: Please send your messages to the mailing list and not directly to me
(unless you have larger attachements, which you can send in a separate
email to me).  Thanks.

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Andreas Waechter wrote:

> Rajendra,
>
> The COIN/Ipopt/doc/README.Windows document describes very briely how to
> build the Ipopt AMPL executable under Windwos using Cygwin.  To make it
> easier for you and hopefully other future users, let me try to describe
> step by step what to do:
>
> What you have to do is to install Cygwin from www.cygwin.com.  This is
> pretty straight forward; you simply download the "setup" program and start
> it.
>
> Then you do the following steps (assuming here that you don't have any
> compilcations with firewall settings etc - in that case you might have
> to choose some connection settings differently):
>
> - click next
>
> - select "install from the internet" (default) and click next
>
> - select a directory where Cygwin is to be installed (I left the default)
>   and choose all other things to your liking, then click next
>
> - select a temp dir for Cygwin setup to store some files (I left the
>   default)
>
> - select "direct connection" (default) and click next
>
> - select some mirror site that seems close by to you and click next
>
> - ok, now comes the complicated part:
>   you need to select the packages that you want to have installed.  By
>   default, there are already selections, but I think the compilers are
>   usually not selected.  You need to make sure that you select the GNU
>   compilers (for Fortran and C - together with the MinGW options), and the
>   GNU Make.  For this, click on the "Devel" branch (which opens a subtree)
>   and select:
>    - gcc
>    - gcc-core
>    - gcc-g77
>    - gcc-mingw
>    - gcc-mingw-core
>    - gcc-mingw-g77
>    - make
>
>   Then, in the "Web" branch, please select "wget" (which will make the
>   installation of third party dependencies for Ipopt easier)
>
>   This will automatically also select some other packages.  (I hope I
>   didn't forget anything)
>
> - Then you click on next, and Cygwin will be installed (follow the
>   rest of the intructions and choose everything else to your liking).  At
>   a later point you can easily add/remove packages with the setup program.
>
> - Now that you have Cygwin, you can open a Cygwin window, which is like a
>   UNIX shell window.  (I assume that you have some basic knowledge of
>   UNIX/Linux...).
>
> - Now you just follow the instructions of COIN/Ipopt/doc/QUICKINSTALL
>   (i.e., you download the Ipopt tarball and put it into your Cygwin home
>   directory - from the Windows explore that is for me at
>   C:\Cygwin\home\andreasw )
>   and you can unpack the package in your Cygwin home directory.  After
>   that you obtain the third party code (like on Linux/UNIX), type
>   './configure' and 'make install' in the right directories, and hopefully
>   that will work.  The AMPL Ipopt executable will be in the directory
>   COIN/Ipopt/bin (called 'ipopt').
>
> - If that worked, please send me a note saying that it did work, so that I
>   can include these descriptions in the documentation.  If it didn't work,
>   I'm sure you sent a message back (to the mailing list) in any case...
>
> One comment: I think the Ipopt AMPL executables generated this way will
> not be able to tell you the CPIU time usage after a run.
>
> It's a pitty that the installation under Windows is somewhat compilcated,
> particularly for users that usually don't work with UNIX and compilers.
> However, we can't distribute precompiled executables at this point,
> because currently Ipopt depends on some Harwell subroutines, which we
> cannot redistribute (they are free for academic purposes if you download
> them yourself, but not free for commercial purposes, and one cannot give
> them to someone else - unless of course you buy an appropriate commercial
> license...)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Rajendra, Venkata (IE10) wrote:
>
> > Dear Andreas,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am facing difficulty in building the AMPL interface for IPOPT Fortran
> > version on Windows Platform. Is there a document which, describes step by
> > step procedure for the same. I looked into AMPL website but it does not
> > describe any procedure for IPOPT solver.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> >
> > Rajendra
> >
> >
>
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