Obtaining the Binaries

If the user does not wish to compile source code, the OS library, OSSolverService executable, and Tomcat server software configuration are available at http://www.coin-or.org/Binaries/OS in binary format. In the binary OS root there are cpp and java directories for the compiled C++ and Java code.

In the cpp directory you will find binaries for the OS library (see Section 7), along with the necessary COIN-OR supporting libraries, and the OSSolverService (see Section 10) executable. All the files are packaged together as a tgz file for Unix distributions and zip file for Windows. The distribution follows the following naming convention:

OS-release_number-operating_system-chip-compiler.tgz (zip)

For example, Release 1.0 on Linux is

OS-1.0-linux-ix86-gcc3.4.tgz

and on Windows

OS-1.0-win32-msvs-v8.zip

After unpacking the tgz or zip archives, the files in the resulting OS binary distribution are illustrated in Figure 2. In the bin directory are the executable file OSSolverService and any other related COIN-OR executables. The doc directory contains this document, osUsersManualF1.pdf. In the include directory are the header files that are required if the user wishes to write code to link to OS library or any other supporting COIN-OR library in the lib directory.

Figure 2: The OS binary distribution.

In the java directory are the binary files required to build an Apache Tomcat-based Web service that will take SOAP envelopes with model instances in OSiL format and/or options in OSoL format, call the OSSolverService, and return the optimization result in OSrL format. This distribution is named

os-distribution-release_number.zip

and the details and use of this distribution are described in Section 11.