[Ipopt] Ipopt + MA27 compiled for Visual Studio 2008

[Stefan Vigerske]

Hi,

On 01/10/2014 03:41 PM, Jonathan Hogg wrote:
> At present we have two different downloads compatible with different
> versions of Ipopt due to a change in some data structures (or
> something). What versions should I be supporting - is the Ipopt front
> page correct in claiming the latest stable version is 3.9 (latest
> version 3.9.3 tarball dated 8-apr-2011)?

The page is wrong.
Seems to be some new bug.
I'll work around it.

> I'm inclined to only support the 3.11.x series - is this the right thing
> to do?

I would think so.

Stefan

>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan.
>
> On 10/01/14 14:08, Jonathan Hogg wrote:
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> I think I've got a working setup for putting the precompiled
>> libhsl.dll on the site, I've just not had time to do so.
>>
>> I'll see if I can make time this afternoon.
>>
>> Jonathan.
>>
>> On 10/01/14 14:06, Tony Kelman wrote:
>>> As I mentioned in the ticket, the HSL license unfortunately does not
>>> allow redistribution. What you're asking for would violate that license.
>>>
>>> It should be possible, with a few extra steps, to use a MinGW DLL
>>> with Visual Studio. Did you try using dumpbin to generate a .def file
>>> from the dll, then a .lib from the .def?
>>>
>>> Someone who has Intel Fortran may be able to send you a MSVC/ifort
>>> Ipopt dll that was compiled with MUMPS. I'd be curious to hear if
>>> anyone has done this, I don't think it's currently possible using the
>>> autotools but maybe it is doable using the Visual Studio project files.
>>>
>>> There's also the option of compiling Ipopt without any linear solver
>>> (you can do this with Visual Studio compiler and autotools if you use
>>> compile_f2c for Blas and Lapack, as I described in the ticket) and
>>> using the linear solver loader functionality. Ipopt can load HSL
>>> linear solvers (MA27 or others) dynamically at runtime if it can find
>>> a libhsl.dll library.
>>>
>>> Jonathan, did you make much progress towards providing a pre-compiled
>>> libhsl.dll download from the HSL site for Windows users?
>>>
>>> -Tony
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: scanpat at free.fr
>>> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 4:58 AM
>>> To: ipopt at list.coin-or.org
>>> Subject: [Ipopt] Ipopt + MA27 compiled for Visual Studio 2008
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I send you this mail because I did not identify any independent
>>> technical solution allowing me to reach my goal.
>>>
>>> Here's my goal : I want to use IPOPT compiled with MA27 as a DLL used
>>> in Miscrosoft Visual Studio 2008.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately this IPOPT version (with MA27) is not available in the
>>> binary repository (http://www.coin-or.org/download/binary/Ipopt/)
>>>
>>> Since I do not have Intel Fortran compiler , I tried to recompile the
>>> sources IPOPT MA27 + with MinGW / Msys . This has been long and
>>> arduous but thanks to the help of some contributors IPOPT, I managed
>>> to achieve my goal (https://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt/ticket/227).
>>> BUT I quickly realized that the DLL compiled via MinGW were not
>>> compatible with Visual Studio 2008 (.lib).
>>>
>>> Therefore, I have no choice : I have to use a version of IPOPT DLL
>>> compiled with Visual Studio 2008.
>>>
>>> As I do not have Intel Fortran and Intel suite ( MKL ) compiler, I
>>> can not make this compilation myself.
>>>
>>> My last chance is to ask to this mailing list if someone can compile
>>> IPOPT with MA27 and send it by email (win32_x86)
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>
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