[Ipopt] Redirecting the IPOPT output to mexPrintf

[Joel Andersson]

Hi,

I'm working on completing the addition of a MATLAB interface to CasADi, but
I'm struggling finding a way to send the text output from IPOPT to MATLAB's
mexPrintf. Is it possible to somehow set a user-defined function for
printing log messages? Or, alternatively, to have IPOPT write output to
C++'s iostream (i.e. std::cout and std::cerr) instead of C's printf (i.e.
stdout and stderr)? The former is much easier to redirect to a custom
function.

In general, since Ipopt is a C++ code, I would expect iostream to be used
for printing, but I guess it uses printf because of the linear solvers
underneath.

If anyone is interested, you can find an example of how to solve an NLP
using IPOPT with CasADi-MATLAB here:
https://github.com/casadi/casadi/blob/develop/test/matlab/rosenbrock.m.
This is complete with efficient calculation of sparse Hessians and
Jacobians but unless you start MATLAB from the command line without the
GUI, you'll lose the IPOPT text output due to the above issue. I'll get
back to this mailing list as soon as we make a stable release.

Best regards,
Joel




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