[Ipopt] IPOPT installation on windows

[Tony Kelman]

Mosy,

I've recently been compiling Ipopt many times on a variety of machines 
including on Windows with Cygwin, so I can probably help you out.

As John suggested, you can also try MinGW instead of Cygwin. There is a 
straightforward GUI installer called mingw-get-inst available here 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/ . 
During the installation, select the C, C++, and Fortran compilers, and the 
MSYS Basic System. You then need one additional item, the mingwPORT of wget 
from 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Other/mingwPORT/Current%20Releases/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2/download 
in order to download the third-party sources that Ipopt requires. Copy the 
wget.exe from that tar file into your MinGW/msys/1.0/bin folder.

If you would prefer to stick with Cygwin, it should work as long as you 
install the following packages.
Under Devel, you need: gcc4, gcc4-fortran
Under Devel, I recommend: subversion
Under Web, you need: wget

Be sure to "Select required packages" when a Resolving Dependencies window 
comes up.

As you hopefully saw under Compilation on the current issues page 
(https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/current-issues), the version 
of "make" that the Cygwin installer gives you will not work. Download the 
fixed version from http://www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe and save it to 
cygwin/bin. Double-check this new version by typing "make --version" in a 
Cygwin terminal, if you get an error "-bash: /usr/bin/make: Bad address", 
then try http://www.cmake.org/files/cygwin/make.exe-cygwin1.7 instead, 
rename it to make.exe and move it to cygwin/bin.

Download a copy of the Ipopt source. If you installed subversion, you can do 
this easily from the command line:
svn co https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Ipopt/releases/3.10.2 ~/Ipopt-3.10.2

Download the third-party sources:
cd ~/Ipopt-3.10.2
cd ThirdParty/Blas; ./get.Blas; cd ../..
cd ThirdParty/Lapack; ./get.Lapack; cd ../..
cd ThirdParty/Metis; ./get.Metis; cd ../..
cd ThirdParty/Mumps; ./get.Mumps; cd ../..
cd ThirdParty/ASL; ./get.ASL; cd ../..
(ASL is optional, only necessary if you are working with AMPL models)

Make a build directory, configure and compile:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
make test
make install

I just tried this out on a Windows computer with a fresh installation of 
Cygwin (only the default packages plus those mentioned above) and it worked. 
If you are having problems, can you be more specific about when the first 
errors occur and exactly what they say?

-Tony

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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:33:54 +0100
From: "Mostafa.B" <bakhtvar at gmail.com>
To: ipopt at list.coin-or.org
Subject: [Ipopt] IPOPT installation on windows
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Hi all,
I am completely new to IPOPTt,
I want to install it on windows, I have tried the installation with Cygwin
manual available in the COIN website but wasn't successful, even I don't
know if I am doing it correctly or not. At various stages I have got errors
that are not supposed to show up based on the manual. (memory allocation, C
compiler, Fortran compiler (77/90), recipe for libampl.a, etc.)
could someone with experience of installing IPOPT on windows 7 64 bit give
me instructions to get it installed from scratch? by scratch I mean assume
that I have a completely fresh windows installation with no software
installed on it, just windows. So please include the installation and the
way to obtain prerequisites, interpreters, third party, packages within
Cygwin, additions to environmental variables and all the rest of the stuff
that are necessary for installing IPOPT on a blank windows. I am sure that
many others having trouble installing IPOPT on windows will appreciate it
including myself, and this will become one of those magnificent references
on internet.

Thanks in advance

Regards

Mosy