Building in a Windows Terminal

These instructions are for MSVC++ Version 10. Instructions for other versions should be similar, though project files for earlier versions are not well maintained.

• Open a command terminal (choose Run on the Start menu and type cmd in the dialogue box). Go to the MSVisualStudio $\backslash$v10 directory and type

   devenv symphony.sln /Build "Win32|Release"
  

  This will create both the 32-bit release version of SYMPHONY, including the library libSymphony.lib and the executable symphony. Of course, other configurations are suported as well and binaries will be created side-by-side in the appropriate directories according to platform and configuration selected. 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.

• If you modify the source code of SYMPHONY, type

   devenv symphony.sln /Rebuild "Win32|Release"
  

  in order to clean and rebuild everything.