Building with the NMAKE Utility

• Go to MSVisualStudio directory and edit the sym.mak makefile to reflect your environment. This involves specifying the LP solver to be used, assigning some variables and setting various paths. Only minor edits should be required. An explanation of what has to be set is contained in the comments in the makefile. Note that, you have to first create the COIN libraries Cgl, Clp, Osi, OsiClp and CoinUtils.

• Once configuration is done, open a command line terminal and type

   nmake sym.mak
  

  This will make the SYMPHONY library libSymphony.lib and the executable symphony in Debug directory. The library, together with the header files in SYMPHONY $\backslash$ include $\backslash$ , can then be used to call SYMPHONY from any C/C++ code. The API for calling SYMPHONY is described in Section 3.3.

• Test the executable by opening Windows Explorer and double-clicking on symphony.exe in the Debug $\backslash$ subdirectory. 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.