[Symphony] SYMPHONY and MathProg on Windows

[Ted Ralphs]

I forgot to mention that if you do happen to be using the auto tools to
configure and build SYMPHONY, you need the --with-gmpl option to the
configure command.

Ted

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
>
> The trunk version of SYMPHONY now has working GMPL support. If you are
> willing, please check out the trunk version and test it. If everything seems
> to be OK, then I'll merge changes to stable/5.4 and make a new release in
> the next couple of days. The INSTALL file has instructions on how to get
> SYMPHONY built in Visual C++ with GLPK and with GMPL support. Let me know if
> you have any questions.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ted
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Ted Ralphs <ted at lehigh.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> Since you posted your question to both Cbc and SYMPHONY mailing lists, I
>> am replygin with a cc to both. Can you be more specific about the platform
>> you are trying to build on? There are a number of ways of building binaries
>> in Windows, some easier than others. I assume you are talking about Visual
>> C++? This is the hardest one :(. In any case, there will not be any binaries
>> that include GMPL support because the license of GLPK (GPL) prohibits us
>> distributing binaries linked to it.
>>
>> I have just now tried and realized that the SYMPHONY interface to GMPL is
>> a bit broken. I believe the Cbc one is working fine. I'll fix and then try
>> to tell you how to build with that support.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ted
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Jim Levis <jwlevis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Can anyone point me to good step-by-step guide for configuring
>>> SYMPHONY to read MathProg files in Windows? Is there are way to do it
>>> with
>>> binaries, or do you need to compile SYMPHONY and GLPK together?
>>> Finally, is using SYMPHONY directly with MathProg much more efficient
>>> than using GLPK to write an MPS file and then solving with SYMPHONY ?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Ted Ralphs
>> Associate Professor, Lehigh University
>> (610) 628-1280
>> ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
>> coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Ted Ralphs
> Associate Professor, Lehigh University
> (610) 628-1280
> ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
> coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
>
>


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Dr. Ted Ralphs
Associate Professor, Lehigh University
(610) 628-1280
ted 'at' lehigh 'dot' edu
coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted
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