[Ipopt] Problems with Windows 7/MS Visual Studio 10

[Horand Gassmann]

Stefan Vigerske <stefan at math.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> I am having several problems with my new setup using windows 7 and MSVS
>> 10. I do not know if the installation was bad or what else I may be
>> missing.
>>
>> 1. I can build cbc.exe, and it runs. I cannot build OsiCbcUnitTest,
>> because the linker cannot open libOsiCommonTest.lib. Is this a bug in
>> the solution file?
>>
>> 2. I cannot build in the unix emulators MSYS and Cygwin because there
>> does not seem to be an executable cl.exe (I would prefer to use cl
>> instead of gcc.) In fact, I cannot even run the configure step, because
>> no C compiler is found.
>
> You need to have at least the PATH variable to be setup in a way  
> that cl can be found.

I don't think this is it. There simply is no cl.exe in my Windows 7  
installation. MSVS seems to be able to make do with some dll. I guess  
I can get an executable from some older installation, if I have to.

> I think MSVS installs an icon in the program-startbar (or whatever  
> it's called) to start a shell where these paths are set.
> You may merge the script behind that with the startup script of  
> cygwin and/or msys.
>
>> 3. CppAD does not compile, because it is looking for a routine
>> std::inserter.
>>
>> The error occurs in sparse_set.hpp(231): error C3861: identifier not found.
>>
>> From what I can tell, this routine is not part of the <set> package any
>> more but has been moved to the <iterator> package. (As implied by this
>> remark, MSVS 9 works just fine.)
>
> Maybe tell Brad about it.

Brad claims that on his system everything is hunky-dory. But from what  
I can tell, we may not be running the same configurations, so I was  
wondering if there is any expertise out there on what could possibly  
be going wrong.

Cheers

gus