[Ipopt] building shared libraries under mingw doesnt work for me

[Stefan Vigerske]

Hi,

have a look at the very end of
http://www.coin-or.org/download/binary/Ipopt

Stefan

Am 17.05.2010 19:02, schrieb Jens Schubert:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> thanks for the explanation. I will check the BuildTools.
> 
> Another question: Somewhere on the ipopt page I  did read that there
> are precompiled dll's of ipopt. Could you point me to the right page,
> where I could download the Ipopt lib?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Regards,
> Jens
> 
> 2010/5/17 Andreas Waechter <andreasw at watson.ibm.com>:
>> Hi Jens,
>>
>>> after I managed to compile Ipopt, I realized that the configure-script
>>> always complaines about the shared libraries:
>>> "WARNING: On Msys, shared objects are not supported. I'm disabling your
>>> choice."
>>>
>>> What is the problem here?
>>> Is it too little man power to support this feature?
>>> Are there some extra hurdles under Msys?
>>> What are my options to get a shared library of ipopt build with the
>>> gcc under windows?
>>
>> We (=a number of COIN projects) are using libtool to generate the libraries.
>>  Being afraid of breaking things we haven't updated the version of libtool
>> we are using in a number of years, and we could not get that old version to
>> properly produce shared libraries on msys, so we disabled this in the
>> configure scripts.
>>
>> This is not really an issue with the Ipopt project, but instead of the
>> BuildTools COIN-OR project that provides configure and build tools for a
>> number of COIN projects.  So, if you would like to continue a discussion
>> about this, it probably makes more sense to do that on the BuildTools
>> mailing list.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I am using the uptodate msys/mingw on windows vista.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>> Jens
>>>
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>>
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