[Ipopt] Compiling against the coinor-libipopt-dev package

[Andreas Waechter]

Dear Ugo,

I'm very happy to hear Ipopt is working so well for you - thank you for 
letting me know!  And also a belated Thank You for writing about this on 
the Ipopt success story wiki page :-)

I agree that it would be great to have an easy package-based way to 
install Ipopt.  There are some efforts currently by the COIN-OR Teachnical 
Leadership Council to provide such packages for a number of COIN-OR tools, 
and when successful, it will hopefully mean that also Ipopt can be 
installed that way.  The problem is that I myself cannot distribute 
binaries without much internal approval effort.

Regards,

Andreas

On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Ugo Pattacini wrote:

> Hi Andreas,
>
> I'll ask those authors then; thanks for the pointer.
>
> I'm personally fine with the normal installation procedure (get 3rd party codes + configure + make) and I think it's easy too, but you know, people tend to prefer the "apt-get install" utility whenever the package is available out there and as I have to provide the Ipopt-based framework to our robotics community I gave it a try.
>
> By the way, I have been using Ipopt since a couple of years by now and it is really a reliable and effective tool; I'm still impressed how it can run in near real-time for our kind of problems (inverse kinematics with constraints). Therefore thanks for the awesome job :)
>
> Cheers,
> Ugo
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Andreas Waechter [andreasw at watson.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 22:33
> To: Ugo Pattacini
> Cc: Mailing List IPOPT
> Subject: Re: [Ipopt] Compiling against the coinor-libipopt-dev package
>
> Hi Ugo,
>
> I don't know about those distributions - the best place to get help is
>
> probably from those that created the packages, I see someone at
>
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/c/coinor-ipopt/coinor-ipopt_3.8.3-2/changelog
>
> Good luck,
>
> Andreas
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Ugo Pattacini wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've recently learned that there exists for some linux distributions an
>> ipopt package, namely the coinor-libipopt-dev, that can be downloaded
>> through the apt utility. That package relies on MUMPS for the sparse
>> symmetric matrices solver.
>>
>> I therefore tried to recompile my modules against the library got in
>> this way: somehow the modules compile successfully but their ipopt-based
>> routines do not run correctly (even the ipopt banner is not displayed).
>> I believe this misbehavior has something to do with the linear solver
>> loader that is not able to find the mumps at run-time.
>>
>> Since I did not find any documentation for this procedure (honestly I
>> had just a quick search) my questions are:
>>
>> 1) Do I need to "apt-get install" something else? Maybe the libmumps-dev
>> as well? I'm afraid that getting coinor-libipopt-dev does not install
>> everything.
>>
>> 2) When I link my modules should I add other explicit dependences
>> besides ipopt? Perhaps dmumps, or cmumps or what else?
>>
>> I tried out a bit randomly 1) and 2) without success, hence maybe
>> someone out there has good hints to give.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Ugo Pattacini
>>
>>
>>
>
>