[Coin-ipopt] Compilation for the windows environment

[damien at khubla.com]

Hi Jean-Marc,

Actually, there's a free version of MS Visual Studio, called Visual Studio
Express, which you can get here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/

It does depend on which matrix solver you want to use, for many of them
you'll need a Fortran compiler as well.  If you use Pardiso, you'll get a
header file and a dll from their website and you should be OK.

Alternatively, you can use MinGW or Cygwin, which provide the GNU
compilers under Win32.

www.mingw.org

www.cygwin.com

Hope this helps,

Damien

> Dear all,
>
> I am currently trying to compile IPOPT under windows, but I figured out
> it requires MS Visual Studio .NET, which I cannot afford.
> Is there another way to compile IPOPT for this platform?
>
> Thank you very much for your help,
>
> Jean-Marc.
>