[Ipopt] Problem of installing Coin-HSL with IPOPT

[Stefan Vigerske]

Hi,

the new HSL download from http://www.hsl.rl.ac.uk/ipopt/ currently works 
only with Ipopt/trunk, but not 3.10.

Stefan

> I am trying to install HSL solvers for IPOPT-3.10 on my 64 bit
> Ubuntu-11.04 machine. I can install IPOPT with solvers ma27 and ma57
> separately, by following the instructions on this page
> https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/ticket/69. This works well with
> my MATLAB and AMPL interface. But since I work on some large problems, I
> then I tried to install solvers like ma77, ma 86, etc, I download
> coinhsl-2012.02.14 from this page http://www.hsl.rl.ac.uk/ipopt/, name
> it as 'coinhsl' in the directory ThirdParty/HSL/, and then do the
> installation process as
> ../configure --enable-static CC=gcc-4.3 CXX=g++-4.3 F77=gfortran-4.3
> ADD_CXXFLAGS="-fPIC -fexceptions" ADD_CFLAGS="-fPIC -fexceptions"
> ADD_FFLAGS="-fPIC -fexceptions"
>
> make
>
> Namely, I compile IPOPT with HSL together. But when I run 'make test',
> an error occurs, the error message is as below:
>
> Exception of type: OPTION_INVALID in file
> "../../../../Ipopt/src/Algorithm/IpAlgBuilder.cpp" at line 308:
> Exception message: Selected linear solver MA27 not available.
> Tried to obtain MA27 from shared library "libhsl.so", but the following
> error occured:
> libhsl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> EXIT: Invalid option encountered.
>
> Namely, there is not a file named libhsl.so
>
> Then I tried to install coinhsl before installing IPOPT, I go through
> the 'configure', 'make' and 'sudo make install' process for coinhsl.
> Then I install IPOPT, add 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/' in the
> configure command for IPOPT, but when I make IPOPT, it throws an error
>
> ../../../../../Ipopt/src/Algorithm/LinearSolvers/ma77_iface.F90:11.22:
>
> use hsl_ma77_double
> 1
> Fatal Error: Can't open module file 'hsl_ma77_double.mod' for reading at
> (1): No such file or directory
>
>
> Is there any way to solve this problem? If I cannot install the whole
> package of HSL solvers, how to install solvers like ma77 and ma86
> seperately?
>
> Thanks a lot for your kind help!
>
> Hongkai
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