Installation for Use With Microsoft Visual C++

These instructions are for use with Microsoft Visual Studio 8. The procedure for other version of Visual Studio should be similar. Download and unpack the archive symphony-5.6.2-win32-msvc6.zip

• First, test the executable by opening Windows Explorer and double-click on symphony.exe in the bin directory in the folder in which the distribution was unpacked. This should open a Window in which the interactive solver will appear. Type help or ? to see a list of available commands or see Chapter 3 for instructions on using the interactive solver.

• To test the callable library, the distribution includes sample codes along with associated project files in the examples directory.
  
  milp.c: This sample code is an implementation of a basic MILP solver using SYMPHONY's C callable functions with user defined input (see Section 3.3). To build and test the code, open the SYMPHONY MSVC++ solution file and build the project milp, as described below in the next section.