Configuring

First, switch into the root of the SYMPHONY source checkout. If you obtained SYMPHONY via git, the the next step is to fetch the externals, as follows (this is unnecessary with SVN).

git clone --branch=stable/5.6 https://github.com/coin-or-tools/BuildTools/
BuildTools/get.dependencies fetch

Next, you will run a configuration script that will allow the compilation process to be customized for your environment. to perform this step, switch into the root directory of the distribution and type

 ./configure

This will set up the default configuration files. If you want to override the default settings, you can either run the configuration script with command-line options or else modify the options in the file share/config.site. A complete list of options with brief explanations can be seen both in the file share/config.site and by typing

 ./configure --help=recursive

See Figure 2.1 for a list of options the user may want to set.

Figure 2.1: A list of useful configuration options

In order to enable or disable an option, either modify the file share/config.site or add the option as an argument to configuration script. For instance, running

 ./configure --enable-debug

will compile the source files with the debugging flag.

It is possible to use compilers oter than the default (which is g++). For example, to perform at automated build of SYMPHONY using the MSVC++ compiler cl with GNU autotools in the CYGWIN environment configure with

 ./configure --enable-doscompile=msvc