The C++ Interface

This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the C++ programming language, however, we will lead you through each step of the implementation. For the problem representation, we will create a class that inherits off of the pure virtual base class, TNLP ( IpTNLP.hpp). For the executable (the main function) we will make the call to IPOPT through the IpoptApplication class (IpIpoptApplication.hpp). In addition, we will also be using the SmartPtr class (IpSmartPtr.hpp) which implements a reference counting pointer that takes care of memory management (object deletion) for you (for details, see Appendix B).

After ``make install'' (see Section 2.3), the header files are installed in $IPOPTDIR/include/coin (or in $PREFIX/include/coin if the switch --prefix=$PREFIX was used for configure).