[Ipopt] About ipopt

Fri Jan 25 12:12:49 EST 2013

You can also use MSYS+MinGW on Windows 7. Everything (except MA77) worked
just fine here, and I can give some pointers if necessary.

Pedro.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Mostafa Bakhtvar <bakhtvar at gmail.com>wrote:

> I followed the step by step installation guide below by Tony Kelman and
> everything went smooth,
> I suggest using Cygwin if you are on windows, it is pretty easy and
> straightforward.
>
> Regards
> Mosy
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Tony Kelman <kelman at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> 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%20Releas
> es/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?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipopt-bounces at list.coin-or.org [mailto:
> ipopt-bounces at list.coin-or.org]
> On Behalf Of Stefan Vigerske
> Sent: 25 January 2013 15:38
> To: Jamesp
> Cc: ipopt
> Subject: Re: [Ipopt] About ipopt
>
> Hi,
>
> support for Visual Studio is quite limited, especially if you don't have a
> Fortran compiler.
>
> You should have a look at the precompiled libraries at
> http://www.coin-or.org/download/binary/Ipopt/
> especially the .7z ones.
>
> If you compile by yourself, then regarding 3rd party software, one way is
> to
> get Mumps and Metis. For Mumps, you'll need to have a Fortran90 compiler.
> Another option is to get HSL MA27 and Metis, this only requires a Fortran77
> compiler, but you need to make sure that the license is ok for you.
> If you have to stick with Windows, then get cygwin or mingw to run
> configure
> and make.
>
> Stefan
>
>
> On 01/25/2013 07:14 AM, James Peng wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi, every guys:
> > i'm newly known of this open source software.
> > I'm intend to use it to optimize optical thin film design. By i'm
> confused
> by following problem:
> > 1. My platform is windows 7, and my compiler is VS2008, i don't know it
> works or not?
> > 2. By its tutorial, i know some third party parts should be dealt by
> myself, could you give my some advice.?
> > 3. Based on my environment (including OS win7, VS2008), are there some
> cases existed or created by some friends? either Source codes or DLL lib,
> is
> ok.
> >
> > Thanks
> > James Peng
> > Opticstek
> > Cellphone:  18717887318
> > Email:         Jamesp at live.cn
> > QQ:             408126254
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Pedro Tabacof,
Unicamp - Eng. de Computação 08.
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