[Ipopt] Binaries for Windows

[Andreas Waechter]

Hello,

> Due to popular support, I will write up some rough notes. Should I put notes 
> on this on the page?: 
> https://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt/wiki/CompilationHints

Yes, that would be a great place for that.  If you don't mind, it would be 
good if you could include contact information for you in case people have 
questions.

> BTW, as I will describe, I did pretty much everything in CMake. If the IPOPT 
> developers are considering an update to the build system, I found it far 
> easier to just rewrite the simple makefiles in CMake than to try and mess 
> with MSYS to use the Intel compiler directly. And if CMake is used, you would 
> get most platforms for free and have an easy and consistent way to manage all 
> of the build options for the project.

We have no intention to change the build system.  What we have now is 
based on autotools and has been working pretty well on most platforms, 
including Windows via Cygwin or MSys.  The Ipopt configure and build 
system is also aligned with the rest of COIN; making any change here has 
mayor painful consequences ;-)

Regards,

Andreas