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-5.2.3-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 test the code, either
  • open the solution file milp.sln, choose Build milp.exe and then choose Execute from the Build menu,
  or
  • open a command terminal (choose Run on the Start menu and type cmd in the dialogue box) and type

     devenv milp.sln /make "all - debug"
     Debug/milp.exe
    

  milpOsi.c: This sample code is an implementation of a basic MILP solver using SYMPHONY's C++ callable functions (through OsiSym interface) with user defined input (see Section 3.3.2). To test the code, either
  • open the solution file milpOsi.sln, choose Build milpOsi.exe and then Execute commands from the Build menu,
  or
  • open a command terminal (choose Run on the Start menu and type cmd in the dialogue box) and type

     devenv milpOsi.slb /make "all - debug"
     Debug/milpOsi.exe