Fwd: [Coin-ipopt] Re: ipopt build error in VS.Net 2003

[Andreas Waechter]

Hi all,

>>  i want to use Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2003 to compile the ....
>
> I guess that you don't have a Fortran complier that be consistenc with your
> MSVC as it is essential, for compiling HSL/Blas/Lapack.

I don't think that Saeed is using an inconsistent compiler, since the only 
symbol missing is one from Lapack.  It rather looks that I didn't update 
the project files for Lapack after they releases a new version.

> simpler solution for windows is using cygwin.

That is true, and the configure scripts and Makefiles support this.  Even 
easier might be MinGW.

> I think that it is worth if IPOPT developer release some precompiled binary
> of library for windows users.

Yes that would be easier, but so far Ipopt depended on hirty party code 
(MA27) that we cannot redistribute, and it is only available for free for 
non-commercial purposes.

However, I have been promising for a while that we want to include support 
for the public domain linear solver MUMPS, and I'm getting to the finish 
line with that.  once this is working fine, we will distribute binaries 
within the COIN Binary Distribution Project 
https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinBinary

Regards,

Andreas