[Ipopt] building Ipopt under msys/mingw -- "application could not be initialized correctly"

[Jens Schubert]

Hi Rodrigo,

thanks for your response. I will try your approach still this week and
I will let you know whether this works.

Thanks again for bringing hope into my work :-)
Regards,
Jens

2010/5/4 Rodrigo Lopez-Negrete <r.lopez.negrete at gmail.com>:
> Hi Jens,
> I've had those issues before. However, I now have a working copy of Ipopt in
> windows xp. I've also written a small list of steps on how I did this, and
> you can find it here
> https://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt/wiki/CompilationHints#WinIpopt
> I would start with a clean install of Mingw and Msys before trying the hints
> in the link. Just in case.
> I hope this helps you.
> Regards,
>  Rodrigo
>
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jens Schubert
> <jens.schubert.1 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Ipopt-experts,
>>
>> I try to compile Ipopt on a windows machine using GCC. The details are:
>>  - MinGW version 4.5.0
>>  - Msys
>>  - Ipopt version 3.8.0
>>  - OS: windows vista
>>
>> In some detail, I am doing the following [should be exactly as in
>> documentation - did I forget something?]:
>>  1.) get the ipopt code
>>  2.) get the required ThirdParty code (ASL, Lapack, and BLAS) via the
>> get comands
>>  3.) get the HSL as described (ma27ad.f and mc19ad.f)
>>  4.) mkdir $MyIpoptDir/build
>> cd $MyIpoptDir/build
>> $MyIpoptDir/configure
>>  5.) make
>> ===> Up to this point everything seems to work fine. The problem
>> appears in the next step.
>> 6.) make test
>> All the 4 tests fail. I expect the AMPL solver to fail ( because I
>> didn't install AMLP).
>> but I did not expect that the other three parts of the unit test fail.
>> The error message on my system is the following:
>>
>> Die Anwendung konnte nicht richtig initialisiert werden (0xc0000005).
>>  Klicken Sie auf "OK", um die Anwendung zu beenden.
>>
>>  [Translation:
>> The application could not be initialized correctly (0xc0000005).
>> Click "OK"-Button to end the application.]
>>
>> So far I tried various things to get the cpp-example running, but it
>> always fails with the same error message when I try to run it.
>> -How do I get the example running?
>> -What did I forget?
>> -How do I have to set environment / environment-variables?
>> On the one hand I am relatively new with building under Windows [i.e.
>> building with msys/mingw]. On the other hand I succeeded to build and
>> run other software packages on msys/mingw.
>>
>> I would be happy to get in contact with someone who managed to compile
>> under msys/mingw.
>> -How did you set up your environment to succeed?
>> -How did you install ipopt?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help in advance
>> Jens
>>
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