[Ipopt] Compilation of IPOPT library for C++ example in MSVC(Ipopt.sln)

[Andreas Waechter]

Hi,

Yes, sorry, I'm not using MSVC, so the solution files get easily out of 
date.  If you tell me which files are missing, I will add them by hand and 
correct it in trunk...

Thanks

Andreas

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Teeter, Chuck wrote:

> Hi Antonio,
>
>
> I noticed the same problem as well, and to fix it, I had to manually add
> source files (.cpp) to the IPOPT project as needed until the link errors
> stopped.  These files were included in the IPOPT source distribution,
> but were not part of the VS solution (.sln) file.  Although I'm not sure
> how this file was created in the first place, it is easy in Visual
> Studio to create a separate project (for example, a win32 console app)
> to represent your model.  Then, you just have to set (the already built)
> IPOPT.lib as a project dependency which is then linked to your code.
> However, your project will still need to reference the IPOPT include
> files in a manner similar to what's done in the VS solution file that's
> included with IPOPT.   To resolve any unresolved external link errors,
> you will then need to make sure that the needed source file(s) is part
> of your IPOPT library build.  I don't recall having to change any of the
> include directories to build IPOPT; I just remember having to manually
> add a few source files.
>
> Depending on the location of your new Visual Studio project, you may
> still need to adjust the relative paths for the include directories so
> the IPOPT header files can be located at compile time.
>
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> From: ipopt-bounces at list.coin-or.org
> [mailto:ipopt-bounces at list.coin-or.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Brandao
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 9:02 AM
> To: ipopt at list.coin-or.org
> Subject: [Ipopt] Compilation of IPOPT library for C++ example in
> MSVC(Ipopt.sln)
>
>
> Hello,
>
> When I try to exactly reproduce from scratch the example that comes with
> the IPOPT 3.8.0 installation (the one under the v8 subdiretory that has
> a pre-processed/pre-compiled solution called Ipopt.sln) in MSVC 8.0, I
> get lot's of unresolved references errors related to the #Include
> directive, e.g., the compiler seems not to link IpIpoptApplication.hpp
> and hs_071_nlp.hpp to the solution. I know this might be a very silly
> question, but how was the solution Ipopt.sln created for MSVC? Was it
> created using the MSVC itself or Cywin or other program? In other words,
> how can I create a new IPOPT problem using MSVC such that I do not have
> to tell MSVC all the Include File dependencies?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Cheers,
> Antonio.
>
>
>
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