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\begin{document}
\title{Introduction to \Ipopt:\\
A tutorial for downloading, installing, and using \Ipopt.}

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\begin{abstract}
  This document is a guide to using \Ipopt\ 3.9.1.  It includes
  instructions on how to obtain and compile \Ipopt, a description of
  the interface, user options, etc., as well as a tutorial on how to
  solve a nonlinear optimization problem with \Ipopt.
\end{abstract}

\section*{History of this document}
The initial version of this document was created by Yoshiaki
Kawajir\footnote{then Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
  University, Pittsburgh PA} as a course project for \textit{47852
  Open Source Software for Optimization}, taught by Prof. Fran\c{c}ois
Margot at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.
After this, Carl Laird\footnote{then Department of Chemical
  Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA} has added
significant portions, including the very nice tutorials.  The current
version is maintained by Andreas W\"achter\footnote{Department of
  Mathematical Sciences, IBM T.J.\ Watson Research Center, Yorktown
  Heights, NY}.

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\vspace{\baselineskip}
\begin{small}
\noindent
The following names used in this document are trademarks or registered
trademarks: AMPL, IBM, Intel, Matlab, Microsoft, MKL, Visual Studio C++,
Visual Studio C++ .NET
\end{small}

\section{Introduction}
\Ipopt\ (\underline{I}nterior \underline{P}oint \underline{Opt}imizer,
pronounced ``Eye--Pea--Opt'') is an open source software package for
large-scale nonlinear optimization. It can be used to solve general
nonlinear programming problems of the form
%\begin{subequations}\label{NLP}
\begin{eqnarray}
\min_{x\in\RR^n} &&f(x) \label{eq:obj} \\
\mbox{s.t.} \;  &&g^L \leq g(x) \leq g^U \\
                &&x^L \leq x \leq x^U, \label{eq:bounds}
\end{eqnarray}
%\end{subequations}
where $x \in \RR^n$ are the optimization variables (possibly with
lower and upper bounds, $x^L\in(\RR\cup\{-\infty\})^n$ and
$x^U\in(\RR\cup\{+\infty\})^n$), $f:\RR^n\longrightarrow\RR$ is the
objective function, and $g:\RR^n\longrightarrow \RR^m$ are the general
nonlinear constraints.  The functions $f(x)$ and $g(x)$ can be linear
or nonlinear and convex or non-convex (but should be twice
continuously differentiable). The constraints, $g(x)$, have lower and
upper bounds, $g^L\in(\RR\cup\{-\infty\})^m$ and
$g^U\in(\RR\cup\{+\infty\})^m$. Note that equality constraints of the
form $g_i(x)=\bar g_i$ can be specified by setting
$g^L_{i}=g^U_{i}=\bar g_i$.

\subsection{Mathematical Background}
\Ipopt\ implements an interior point line search filter method that
aims to find a local solution of (\ref{eq:obj})-(\ref{eq:bounds}).  The
mathematical details of the algorithm can be found in several
publications
\cite{NocWaeWal:adaptive,WaechterPhD,WaecBieg06:mp,WaeBie05:filterglobal,WaeBie05:filterlocal}.

\subsection{Availability}
The \Ipopt\ package is available from COIN-OR
(\texttt{www.coin-or.org}) under the EPL (Eclipse Public License)
open-source license and includes the source code for \Ipopt.  This
means, it is available free of charge, also for commercial purposes.
However, if you give away software including \Ipopt\ code (in source
code or binary form) and you made changes to the \Ipopt\ source code,
you are required to make those changes public and to clearly indicate
which modifications you made.  After all, the goal of open source
software is the continuous development and improvement of software.
For details, please refer to the Eclipse Public License.

Also, if you are using \Ipopt\ to obtain results for a publication, we
politely ask you to point out in your paper that you used \Ipopt, and
to cite the publication \cite{WaecBieg06:mp}.  Writing high-quality
numerical software takes a lot of time and effort, and does usually
not translate into a large number of publications, therefore we
believe this request is only fair :).  We also have space at the
\Ipopt\ project home page where we list publications, projects, etc.,
in which \Ipopt\ has been used.  We would be very happy to hear about
your experiences

\subsection{Prerequisites}\label{sec:prerequisites}
In order to build \Ipopt, some third party components are required:
\begin{itemize}
\item BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines).  Many vendors of
  compilers and operating systems provide precompiled and optimized
  libraries for these dense linear algebra subroutines.  You can also
  get the source code for a simple reference implementation from {\tt
    www.netlib.org} and have the \Ipopt\ distribution compile it
  automatically.  However, it is strongly recommended to use some
  optimized BLAS implemetion, for large problems this can make a
  runtime difference of an order of magnitude!

  Examples for efficient BLAS implementations are:
  \begin{itemize}
  \item From hardware vendors:
    \begin{itemize}
    \item ACML (AMD Core Math Library) by AMD
    \item ESSL (Engineering Scientific Subroutine Library) by IBM
    \item MKL (Math Kernel Library) by Intel
    \item Sun Performance Library by Sun
    \end{itemize}
  \item Generic:
    \begin{itemize}
    \item Atlas (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software)
    \item GotoBLAS
    \end{itemize}
  \end{itemize}
  You find more information on the web by googling them.

  Note: BLAS libraries distributed with Linux are usually not
  optimized.
\item LAPACK (Linear Algebra PACKage).  Also for LAPACK, some vendors
  offer precompiled and optimized libraries.  But like with BLAS, you
  can get the source code from {\tt www.netlib.org} and have the
  \Ipopt\ distribution compile it automatically.

  Note that currently LAPACK is only required if you intend to use the
  quasi-Newton options in \Ipopt.  You can compile the code without
  LAPACK, but an error message will then occur if you try to run the
  code with an option that requires LAPACK.  Currently, the LAPACK
  routines that are used by \Ipopt\ are only {\tt DPOTRF}, {\tt
    DPOTRS}, and {\tt DSYEV}.

  Note: LAPACK libraries distributed with Linux are usually not
  optimized.
\item A sparse symmetric indefinite linear solver. \Ipopt\ needs
  to obtain the solution of sparse, symmetric, indefinite linear
  systems, and for this it relies on third-party code.  

  Currently, the following linear solvers can be used:
  \begin{itemize}
  \item MA27 from the Harwell Subroutine Library\\ (see {\tt
      http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/nag/hsl/}).
  \item MA57 from the Harwell Subroutine Library\\ (see {\tt
      http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/nag/hsl/}).
  \item MUMPS (MUltifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver)\\
    (see {\tt http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/})
  \item The Parallel Sparse Direct Solver (PARDISO)\\ (see {\tt
      http://www.computational.unibas.ch/cs/scicomp/software/pardiso/}).\\
    Note: The Pardiso version in Intel's MKL library does not yet
    support the features necessary for \Ipopt.
  \item The Watson Sparse Matrix Package (WSMP)\\ (see {\tt
       http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/\verb|~|agupta/wsmp.html})
  \end{itemize}
  You should include at least one of the linear solvers above in order
  to run \Ipopt, and if you want to be able to switch easily between
  different alternatives, you can compile \Ipopt\ with all of them.

  The \Ipopt\ library also has mechanisms to load the MA27, MA57, and
  Pardiso linear solvers from a shared library at runtime, if the
  library has not been compiled with them (see
  Section~\ref{sec:linear_solver_loader}).

  \textbf{NOTE: The solution of the linear systems is a central
    ingredient in \Ipopt\ and the optimizer's performance and
    robustness depends on your choice.  The best choice depends on
    your application, and it makes sense to try different options.
    Most of the solvers also rely on efficient BLAS code (see above),
    so you should use a good BLAS library tailored to your system.
    Please keep this in mind, particularly when you are comparing
    \Ipopt\ with other optimization codes.}

  If you are compiling MA57 or MUMPS within the \Ipopt\ build system,
  you should also include the METIS linear system ordering package.

  Interfaces to other linear solvers might be added in the future; if
  you are interested in contributing such an interface please contact
  us!  Note that \Ipopt\ requires that the linear solver is able to
  provide the inertia (number of positive and negative eigenvalues) of
  the symmetric matrix that is factorized.

\item Furthermore, \Ipopt\ can also use the Harwell Subroutine MC19
  for scaling of the linear systems before they are passed to the
  linear solver.  This may be particularly useful if \Ipopt\ is used
  with MA27 or MA57.  However, it is not required to have MC19 to
  compile \Ipopt; if this routine is missing, the scaling is never
  performed\footnote{There are more recent scaling routines in the
    HSL, but they have not (yet) been integrated.  Contributions are
    welcome!}.
\item ASL (AMPL Solver Library).  The source code is available at {\tt
    www.netlib.org}, and the \Ipopt\ makefiles will automatically
  compile it for you if you put the source code into a designated
  space.  NOTE: This is only required if you want to use \Ipopt\ from
  AMPL and want to compile the \Ipopt\ AMPL solver executable.
\end{itemize}
For more information on third-party components and how to obtain them,
see Section~\ref{ExternalCode}.

Since the \Ipopt\ code is written in C++, you will need a C++ compiler
to build the \Ipopt\ library.  We tried very hard to write the code as
platform and compiler independent as possible.

In addition, the configuration script currently also searches for a
Fortran, since some of the dependencies above are written in Fortran.
If all third party dependencies are available as self-contained
libraries, those compilers are in principle not necessary.  Also, it
is possible to use the Fortran-to-C compiler {\tt f2c} from {\tt
  www.netlib.org/f2c} to convert Fortran code to C, and compile the
resulting C files with a C compiler and create a library containing
the required third party dependencies.  We have tested and used this
in connection with the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, and instructions
on how to use it in this context are given below.

\subsection{How to use \Ipopt}
If desired, the \Ipopt\ distribution generates an executable for the
modeling environment AMPL. As well, you can link your problem
statement with \Ipopt\ using interfaces for C++, C, or Fortran.
\Ipopt\ can be used with most Linux/Unix environments, and on Windows
using Visual Studio .NET, Cygwin or MSYS/MinGW.  Below in
Section~\ref{sec:tutorial-example} this document demonstrates how to
solve problems using \Ipopt. This includes installation and
compilation of \Ipopt\ for use with AMPL as well as linking with your
own code.

The \Ipopt\ distribution includes an interface for {\tt
  CUTEr}\footnote{see {\tt http://cuter.rl.ac.uk/cuter-www/}} (for
  solving problems modeled in SIF), and also a Matlab (mex) interface
  which allows you to use Ipopt from Matlab, see

\centerline{\tt https://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt/wiki/MatlabInterface.}
%
The distribution also includes an interface to the R project for
statistical computing, see the files in the
\texttt{Ipopt/contrib/RInterface} directory.


There are also interfaces maintained by other people:
\begin{itemize}
\item GAMS (modeling environment)

  The GAMSlinks project on COIN-OR, maintained by Stefan Vigerske,
  includes a GAMS interface for Ipopt, see {\tt
  https://projects.coin-or.org/GAMSlinks}.
\item AIMMS (modeling environment)

  The AIMMSlinks project on COIN-OR, maintained by Marcel Hunting,
  provides an interface for Ipopt within the AIMMS modeling tool, see
  {\tt https://projects.coin-or.org/AIMMSlinks}.
\item Scilab (free Matlab-like envirnoment):

  Edson Cordeiro do Valle has written an interface to use Ipopt from
  Scilab,\\ see {\tt http://www.scilab.org/contrib/displayContribution.php?fileID=839}

  Another Scilab interface is available here: {\tt
    http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/sci-ipopt}
\item Python:

  An interface to the python language is available here: {\tt
    http://code.google.com/p/pyipopt}
\end{itemize}

\subsection{More Information and Contributions}
More and up-to-date information can be found at the \Ipopt\ homepage,

\begin{center}
\texttt{http://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt}.
\end{center}

Here, you can find FAQs, some (hopefully useful) hints, a bug report
system etc.  The website is managed with Wiki, which means that every
user can edit the webpages from the regular web browser.  {\bf In
  particular, we encourage \Ipopt\ users to share their experiences
  and usage hints on the ``Success Stories'' and ``Hints and Tricks''
  pages, or to list the publications discussing applications of
  \Ipopt\ in the ``Papers related to Ipopt'' page}\footnote{Since we
  had some malicious hacker attacks destroying the content of the web
  pages in the past, you are now required to enter a user name and
  password; simply follow the instructions on top of the main project
  page.}.  In particular, if you have trouble getting \Ipopt\ work
well for your optimization problem, you might find some ideas here.
Also, if you had some difficulties to solve a problem and found a way
around it (e.g., by reformulating your problem or by using certain
\Ipopt\ options), it would be very nice if you help other users by
sharing your experience at the ``Hints and Tricks'' page.

\Ipopt\ is an open source project, and we encourage people to
contribute code (such as interfaces to appropriate linear solvers,
modeling environments, or even algorithmic features).  If you are
interested in contributing code, please have a look at the COIN
contributions webpage\footnote{see \tt
  http://www.coin-or.org/contributions.html}, and contact the \Ipopt\
project leader.

There is also a mailing list for \Ipopt, available from the webpage
\begin{center}
\texttt{http://list.coin-or.org/mailman/listinfo/ipopt},
\end{center}
where you can subscribe to get notified of updates, to ask general
questions regarding installation and usage, or to share your
experience with \Ipopt. You might want to look at the archives before
posting a question.  An easy way to search the archive with Google is
to specify

``\texttt{site:http://list.coin-or.org/pipermail/ipopt}''\\
in addition to your keywords in the search string.

We try to answer questions posted to the mailing list in a reasonable
manner.  Please understand that we cannot answer all questions in
detail, and because of time constraints, we may not be able to help
you model and debug your particular optimization problem.  However, if
you have a challenging optimization problem and are interested in
consulting services by IBM Research, please contact the \Ipopt\
project leader, Andreas W\"achter.

\subsection{History of \Ipopt}
The original \Ipopt\ (Fortran version) was a product of the
dissertation research of Andreas W\"achter \cite{WaechterPhD}, under
the supervision of Lorenz T. Biegler at the Chemical Engineering
Department at Carnegie Mellon University. The code was made open
source and distributed by the COIN-OR initiative, which is now a
non-profit corporation.  \Ipopt\ has been actively developed under
COIN-OR since 2002.

To continue natural extension of the code and allow easy addition of
new features, IBM Research decided to invest in an open source
re-write of \Ipopt\ in C++.  With the help of Carl Laird, who came to
the Mathematical Sciences Department at IBM Research as a summer
intern in 2004 and 2005 during his PhD studies, the code was
re-implemented from scratch.

The new C++ version of the \Ipopt\ optimization code (\Ipopt\ 3.0.0
and beyond) is maintained at IBM Research and remains part of the
COIN-OR initiative. The development on the Fortran version has
ceased, but the source code can still be downloaded from\\ {\tt
  http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/Ipopt-Fortran/}.

\section{Installing \Ipopt}\label{Installing}

The following sections describe the installation procedures on
UNIX/Linux systems.  For installation instructions on Windows
see Section~\ref{WindowsInstall}.

\subsection{Getting the \Ipopt\ Code}
\Ipopt\ is available from the COIN-OR subversion repository. You can
either download the code using \texttt{svn} (the
\textit{subversion}\footnote{see
  \texttt{http://subversion.tigris.org/}} client similar to CVS) or
simply retrieve a tarball (compressed archive file).  While the
tarball is an easy method to retrieve the code, using the
\textit{subversion} system allows users the benefits of the version
control system, including easy updates and revision control.

\subsubsection{Getting the \Ipopt\ code via subversion}

Of course, the \textit{subversion} client must be installed on your
system if you want to obtain the code this way (the executable is
called \texttt{svn}); it is already installed by default for many
recent Linux distributions.  Information about \textit{subversion} and
how to download it can be found at
\texttt{http://subversion.tigris.org/}.\\

To obtain the \Ipopt\ source code via subversion, change into the
directory in which you want to create a subdirectory {\tt Ipopt} with
the \Ipopt\ source code.  Then follow the steps below:
\begin{enumerate}
\item{Download the code from the repository}\\
{\tt \$ svn co https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Ipopt/stable/3.9 CoinIpopt} \\
Note: The {\tt \$} indicates the command line
prompt, do not type {\tt \$}, only the text following it.
\item Change into the root directory of the \Ipopt\ distribution\\
{\tt \$ cd CoinIpopt}
\end{enumerate}

In the following, ``\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR}'' will refer to the directory in
which you are right now (output of \texttt{pwd}).

\subsubsection{Getting the \Ipopt\ code as a tarball}

To use the tarball, follow the steps below:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Download the desired tarball from
  \texttt{http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/Ipopt}, it has the form {\tt
    Ipopt-{\em x.y.z}.tgz}, where {\tt\em x.y.z} is the version
  number, such as {\tt 3.9.1}.  There might also be daily snapshot
  from the stable branch.  The number of the latest official release
  can be found on the \Ipopt\ Trac page.
\item Issue the following commands to unpack the archive file: \\
\texttt{\$ gunzip Ipopt-{\em x.y.z}.tgz} \\
\texttt{\$ tar xvf Ipopt-{\em x.y.z}.tar} \\
Note: The {\tt \$} indicates the command line
prompt, do not type {\tt \$}, only the text following it.
\item Rename the directory you just extracted:\\
\texttt{\$ mv Ipopt-{\em x.y.z} CoinIpopt}
\item Change into the root directory of the \Ipopt\ distribution\\
{\tt \$ cd CoinIpopt}
\end{enumerate}

In the following, ``\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR}'' will refer to the directory in
which you are right now (output of \texttt{pwd}).

\subsection{Download External Code}\label{ExternalCode}
\Ipopt\ uses a few external packages that are not included in the
\Ipopt\ source code distribution, namely ASL (the AMPL Solver Library
if you want to compile the Ipopt AMPL solver executable), Blas,
Lapack.  It also requires at least one linear solver for symmetric
indefinite matrices.

Since this third party software released under different licenses than
\Ipopt, we cannot distribute that code together with the \Ipopt\
packages and have to ask you to go through the hassle of obtaining it
yourself (even though we tried to make it as easy for you as we
could).  Keep in mind that it is still your responsibility to ensure
that your downloading and usage if the third party components conforms
with their licenses.

Note that you only need to obtain the ASL if you intend to use \Ipopt\
from AMPL.  It is not required if you want to specify your
optimization problem in a programming language (C++, C, or Fortran).
Also, currently, Lapack is only required if you intend to use the
quasi-Newton options implemented in \Ipopt.

\subsubsection{Download BLAS, LAPACK and ASL}
Note: It is \textbf{highly recommended that you obtain an efficient
  implementation of the BLAS library}, tailored to your hardware;
Section~\ref{sec:prerequisites} lists a few options.  Assuming that
your precompiled efficient BLAS library is \texttt{libmyblas.a} in
\texttt{\$HOME/lib}, you need to add the flag
\texttt{--with-blas="-L\$HOME/lib -lmyblas"} when you run
\texttt{configure} (see Section~\ref{sec.comp_and_inst}).  Some of
those libraries also include LAPACK.

If you have the download utility \texttt{wget} installed on your
system, retrieving source code for BLAS (the inefficient reference
implementation, not required if you have a precompiled library), as
well as LAPACK and ASL is straightforward using scripts included with
the ipopt distribution.  These scripts download the required files
from the Netlib Repository
(\texttt{www.netlib.org}).\\

\noindent
{\tt \$ cd \$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/Blas}\\
{\tt \$ ./get.Blas}\\
{\tt \$ cd ../Lapack}\\
{\tt \$ ./get.Lapack}\\
{\tt \$ cd ../ASL}\\
{\tt \$ ./get.ASL}\\

\noindent
If you do not have \texttt{wget} installed on your system, please read
the \texttt{INSTALL.*} files in the
\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/Blas},
\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/Lapack} and
\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/ASL} directories for alternative
instructions.

\subsubsection{Download HSL Subroutines}
\Ipopt\ requires a sparse symmetric linear solver.  There are
different possibilities.  {\bf It is important to keep in mind that usually
the largest fraction of computation time in the optimizer is spent for
solving the linear system, and that your choice of the linear solver
impacts \Ipopt's speed and robustness.  It might be worthwhile to try
different linear solver to experiment with what is best for your
application.}

In this section we describe how to obtain the source code for MA27
(and MC19) from the Harwell Subroutine Library (HSL) Archive.  Those
routines are freely available for non-commercial, academic use, but it
is your responsibility to investigate the licensing of all third party
code.  (Since recently, also MA57 (the successor of MA27) is available
for free for academic institutions, via the ``HSL 2007 for
Researchers'' library, see below.)

The use of alternative linear solvers is described in
Sections~\ref{sec:MUMPS}-\ref{sec:WSMP}.  You do not necessarily
have to use MA27 as described in this section, but at least one linear
solver is required for \Ipopt\ to function.

\begin{enumerate}
\item Go to {\tt http://hsl.rl.ac.uk/archive/hslarchive.html}
\item Follow the instruction on the website, read the license, and
  submit the registration form.
\item Go to \textit{HSL Archive Programs}, and find the package list.
\item In your browser window, click on \textit{MA27}.
\item Make sure that \textit{Double precision:} is checked. 
  Click \textit{Download package (comments removed)}
\item Save the file as {\tt ma27ad.f} in {\tt \$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/HSL/}\\
  Note: Some browsers append a file extension ({\tt .txt}) when you save
  the file, in which case you have to rename it.
\item Go back to the package list using the back button of your browser.
\item In your browser window, click on \textit{MC19}.
\item Make sure \textit{Double precision:} is checked. Click 
  \textit{Download package (comments removed)}
\item Save the file as {\tt mc19ad.f} in {\tt
    \$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/HSL/}\\
  Note: Some browsers append a file extension ({\tt .txt}) when you save
  the file, so you may have to rename it.
\end{enumerate}

Note: Whereas it is essential to have at least one linear solver, the
package MC19 could be omitted (with the consequence that you cannot
use this method for scaling the linear systems arising inside the
\Ipopt\ algorithm).  By default, MC19 is only used to scale the linear
system when using one of the Harwell solvers, but it can also be
switched on for other linear solvers (which usually have internal
scaling mechanisms).

Note: If you satisfy the conditions to use the HSL 2007 for
Researchers library\\ (see
\texttt{http://hsl.rl.ac.uk/hsl2007/hsl20074researchers.html}), you
can download the MA57 in a way very similar to the procedure outlined
above.  To have Ipopt compile it for you, you need to put the source
code into a \emph{single} file called ma57ad.f (\emph{including all
  dependencies!}) that is in the {\tt \$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/HSL/}
directory. The \Ipopt\ configuration script will then find this file
and compile it into the \Ipopt\ library (just as is would compile
MA27).  MA57 will perform better with METIS, see
Section~\ref{sec:METIS}.

Yet another note: If you have a precompiled library containing the
Harwell codes, you can specify the location of this library with the
\verb|--with-hsl| flag for the {\tt configure} script described in
Section~\ref{sec.comp_and_inst}.

\subsubsection{Obtaining the MUMPS Linear Solver}\label{sec:MUMPS}

You can also use the (public domain) sparse linear solver MUMPS.
Please visit the MUMPS home page {\tt http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/MUMPS/}
for more information about the solver. MUMPS is provided as Fortran 90
and C source code.  You need to have a Fortran 90 compiler (for
example, the GNU compiler {\tt gfortran} is a free one) to be able to
use it.

You can obtain the MUMPS source code by requesting the latest version
from the MUMPS home page, and then extract the source code in the
directory {\tt \$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/Mumps}.  The extracted MUMPS
directory usually has the MUMPS version number in it, and you need to
rename it to {\tt MUMPS} so that you have a file called
{\tt \$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/Mumps/MUMPS/Conditions\_of\_Use}.

You can also try to run the script {\tt get.Mumps} in {\tt
  \$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/Mumps} if you have {\tt wget} installed in
your system.  The MUMPS version number in that file might be out of
date; in that case edit the value assigned to the {\tt mumps\_ver}
variable at the beginning of the script.

Once you put the MUMPS source code into the correct place, the \Ipopt\
configuration scripts will automatically detect it and compile MUMPS
together with \Ipopt, \emph{if your Fortran compiler is able to compile
Fortran 90 code}.

Note: MUMPS will perform better with METIS, see
Section~\ref{sec:METIS}.

Note: MUMPS uses interally a fake implementation of MPI.  If you are
using Ipopt within an MPI program together with MUMPS, the code will
not run.  You will have to modified the MUMPS sources so that the MPI
symbols inside the MUMPS code are renamed.

\subsubsection{Obtaining METIS}\label{sec:METIS}

The linear solvers MA57 and MUMPS can make use of the matrix ordering
algorithms implemented in METIS (see
\texttt{http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview}).  If
you are using one of those linear solvers, you should obtain the METIS
source code and put it into \texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/Metis}.
Read the \texttt{INSTALL.Metis} file in that directory, and if you
have the \texttt{wget} utility installed on your system, you can
download the code by running the \texttt{./get.Metis} script.

\subsubsection{Obtaining the Linear Solver Pardiso}\label{sec:Pardiso}

If you would like to compile \Ipopt\ with the Parallel Sparse Direct
Linear Solver (Pardiso), you need to obtain the Pardiso library for
your operating system.  Information about Pardiso can be found at

\texttt{http://www.pardiso-project.org/}

You can obtain a free download for Pardiso if you want to use it for
``non-commercial and non-profit internal research purposes'' and are
an ``academic, non-profit, or government agency'' (taken from the
license agreement).  Instructions for this are on the above mentioned
website; make sure you read the license agreement before filling out
the download form.

Note: Pardiso is included in Intel's MKL library.  However, that
version does not include the changes done by the Pardiso developers to
make the linear solver work smoothly with \Ipopt.

Please consult Appendix~\ref{ExpertInstall} to find out how to
configure your \Ipopt\ installation to work with Pardiso.

\subsubsection{Obtaining the Linear Solver WSMP}\label{sec:WSMP}

If you would like to compile \Ipopt\ with the Watson Sparse Matrix
Package (WSMP), you need to obtain the WSMP library for your operating
system.  Information about WSMP can be found at

\texttt{http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wsmp}

At this website you can obtain a ``complimentary 90-day evaluation
license'' and download the library for several operating systems; make
sure you read the license agreement before downloading the code.  Once
you obtained the code and the license, please check if the version
number of the library matches the one on the WSMP website at

{\tt http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/\verb|~|agupta/wsmp}

If a newer version is announced on that website, you can (and
probably should) request the current version by sending a message to
\verb|wsmp@watson.ibm.com|.  Please include the operating system and
other details to describe which particular version of WSMP you need.

You can use the bugfix releases with the license you obtained from
alphaWorks.

Note: Only the interface to the shared-memory version of WSMP is
currently supported.

Please consult Appendix~\ref{ExpertInstall} to find out how to
configure your \Ipopt\ installation to work with WSMP.

\subsubsection{Using the Linear Solver  Loader}\label{sec:linear_solver_loader}
By default, \Ipopt\ will be compiled with a mechanism, the Linear
Solver Loader, which can dynamically load shared libraries with MA27,
MA57, or the Pardiso linear solver at runtime\footnote{This is not
  enabled if you compile Ipopt with the Developer Studio project files
  provided in the Ipopt distribution.  Further, if you have problems
  compiling this new feature, you can disable this by specifying
  \texttt{--disable-linear-solver-loader} for the \texttt{configure}
  script}. This means, if you obtain one of those solvers after you
already had compiled \Ipopt, you don't need to recompile \Ipopt\ to
now use them.  Instead, you can just put a shared library called
\texttt{libhsl.so} or \texttt{libpardiso.so} into the shared library
search path, \texttt{LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH}.  These are the names on most
UNIX platforms, including Linux.  On Darwin, the names are
\texttt{libhsl.dylib}, \texttt{libpardiso.dylib}, and
\texttt{DYLD\_LIBRARY\_PATH}.  On Windows (where \Ipopt\ cannot be
used with Pardiso), the names are \texttt{libhsl.dll} and \texttt{PATH}.

The Pardiso shared library can be downloaded from the Pardiso website.
To create a shared library containing the HSL linear solvers, read the
instructions in \texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/ThirdParty/HSL/INSTALL.HSL}.

\subsection{Compiling and Installing \Ipopt} \label{sec.comp_and_inst}

\Ipopt\ can be easily compiled and installed with the usual {\tt
  configure}, {\tt make}, {\tt make install} commands.  We follow the
precedure that is used for most of the COIN-OR projects, based on the
GNU autotools.  At \texttt{https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinHelp}
you can find a general description of the tools.

Below are the basic steps for the \Ipopt\ compilation that should work
on most systems.  For special compilations and for some
troubleshooting see Appendix~\ref{ExpertInstall} and consult the
generic COIN-OR help page
\texttt{https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinHelp} before submitting a
ticket or sending a message to the mailing list.

\begin{enumerate}
\item Create a directory where you want to compile \Ipopt, for example\\
  {\tt \$ mkdir \$IPOPTDIR/build}\\
  and go into this direcrory\\
  {\tt \$ cd \$IPOPTDIR/build}

  Note: You can choose any location, including {\tt \$IPOPTDIR}
  itself, as the location of your compilation.  However, on COIN-OR we
  recommend to keep the source and compiled files separate.

\item Run the configure script\\
  {\tt \$ \$IPOPTDIR/configure}

  One might have to give options to the configure script, e.g., in
  order to choose a non-default compiler, or to tell it where some
  third party code is installed, see Appendix~\ref{ExpertInstall}.

  If the last output line of the script reads ``\texttt{configure:
    Main configuration of Ipopt successful}'' then everything worked
  fine.  Otherwise, look at the screen output, have a look at the
  \texttt{config.log} output files and/or consult
  Appendix~\ref{ExpertInstall}.

  The default configure (without any options) is sufficient for most
  users that downloaded the source code for the linear solver. If you
  want to see the configure options, consult
  Appendix~\ref{ExpertInstall}, and also visit the generic COIN-OR
  configuration instruction page at

  \centerline{\texttt{https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinHelp/wiki/user-configure}}

\item Build the code \\
  {\tt \$ make}

  Note: If you are using GNU make, you can also try to speed up the
  compilation by using the {\tt -jN} flag (e.g., {\tt make -j3}),
  where {\tt N} is the number of parallel compilation jobs.  A good
  number for {\tt N} is the number of available processors plus one.
  Under some circumstances, this fails, and you might have to re-issue
  the command, or omit the {\tt -j} flag.
\item If you want, you can run a short test to verify that the
  compilation was successful.  For this, you just
  enter\\
  {\tt \$ make test}\\
  This will test if the AMPL solver executable works (if you got the
  ASL code), and if the included C++, C, and Fortran examples work.

  Note: The {\tt configure} script is not able to automatically
  determine the C++ runtime libraries for the C++ compiler.  For
  certain compilers we enabled default values for this, but those
  might not exist or be wrong for your compiler.  In that case, the C
  and Fortran example in the test will most probably fail to compile.
  If you don't want to hook up the compiled \Ipopt\ library to some
  Fortran or C code that you wrote you don't need to worry about this.
  If you do want to link the \Ipopt\ library with a C or Fortran
  compiler, you need to find out the C++ runtime libraries (e.g., by
  running the C++ compiler in verbose mode for a simple example
  program) and run {\tt configure} again, and this time specify all
  C++ runtime libraries with the {\tt CXXLIBS} variable (see also
  Appendix~\ref{ExpertInstall}).
\item Install \Ipopt \\
  {\tt \$ make install}\\
  This installs
  \begin{itemize}
  \item the \Ipopt\ AMPL solver executable (if ASL source was
    downloaded) in \texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/build/bin},
  \item the \Ipopt\ library (\texttt{libipopt.so}, \texttt{libipopt.a}
    or similar) in \texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/build/lib},
  \item text files {\tt ipopt\_addlibs\_cpp.txt} and {\tt
      ipopt\_addlibs\_f.txt} in \texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/build/share/doc/coin/Ipopt} that contain a
    line each with additional linking flags that are required for
    linking code with the \Ipopt\ library, for C++ and Fortran main
    programs, respectively. (This is only for convenience if you want
    to find out what additional flags are required, for example, to
    include the Fortran runtime libraries with a C++ compiler.)
  \item the necessary header files in
    \texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/build/include/coin}.
  \end{itemize}
  You can change the default installation directory (here
  \texttt{\$IPOPTDIR}) to something else (such as \texttt{/usr/local})
  by using the \verb|--prefix| switch for \texttt{configure}.
\item (Optional) Install \Ipopt\ for use with {\tt CUTEr}\\
  If you have {\tt CUTEr} already installed on your system and you
  want to use \Ipopt\ as a solver for problems modeled in {\tt SIF},
  type\\
  {\tt \$ make cuter}\\
  This assumes that you have the environment variable {\tt MYCUTER}
  defined according to the {\tt CUTEr} instructions.  After this, you
  can use the script {\tt sdipo} as the {\tt CUTEr} script to solve a
  {\tt SIF} model.
\end{enumerate}

Note: The above procedures show how to compile the code in directories
separate from the source files.  This comes in handy when you want to
compile the code with different compilers, compiler options, or
different operating system that share a common file system.  To use
this feature, change into the directory where you want to compile the
code, and then type {\tt \$IPOPTDIR/configure} with all the options.
For this, the directories with the \Ipopt\ source must not have any
configuration and compiled code.

\subsection{Installation on Windows}\label{WindowsInstall}

There are several ways to install \Ipopt\ on Windows systems.  The
first two option, described in Sections~\ref{CygwinInstall} and
\ref{CygwinInstallNative}, is to use Cygwin (see
\texttt{www.cygwin.com}), which offers a comprehensive UNIX-like
environment on Windows and in which the installation procedure
described earlier in this section can be used.  If you want to use the
(free) GNU compilers, follow the instructions in
Section~\ref{CygwinInstall}.  If you have the Microsoft C++ compiler
and possibly a ``native'' Fortran compiler (e.g., the Intel Fortran
compiler) and want to use those to compile \Ipopt, please see
Section~\ref{CygwinInstallNative}.  If you use MSYS/MinGW (a
light-weight UNIX-like environment for Windows), please consider the
notes in Section~\ref{MinGWInstall}.
%
The \Ipopt\ distribution also includes projects files for the
Microsoft Visual Studio (see Section~\ref{VisualStudioInstall}).

\textbf{NEW:} Some binaries for \Ipopt\ are available on the COIN website at

\texttt{http://www.coin-or.org/download/binary/Ipopt/}

\noindent
There are also precompiled versions of Ipopt as DLLs (generated from
the MSVC solution in \Ipopt's subdirecotry
\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/Ipopt/MSVisualStudio/v8-ifort}.  Look at the
\texttt{README} files for details.  An example how to use these DLLs
from your own MSVC project is in\\
\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/Ipopt/MSVisualStudio/BinaryDLL-Link-Example}.


\subsubsection{Installation with Cygwin using GNU compilers}\label{CygwinInstall}

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows; if you don't know what
it is you might want to have a look at the Cygwin homepage,
\texttt{www.cygwin.com}.

It is possible to build the \Ipopt\ AMPL solver executable in Cygwin
for general use in Windows.  You can also hook up \Ipopt\ to your own
program if you compile it in the Cygwin environment\footnote{It is
  also possible to build an \Ipopt\ DLL that can be used from
  non-cygwin compilers, but this is not (yet?) supported.}.

If you want to compile \Ipopt\ under Cygwin, you first have to install
Cygwin on your Windows system.  This is pretty straight forward; you
simply download the ``setup'' program from
\texttt{www.cygwin.com} and start it.

Then you do the following steps (assuming here that you don't have any
complications with firewall settings etc - in that case you might have
to choose some connection settings differently):

\begin{enumerate}
\item Click next
\item Select ``install from the internet'' (default) and click next
\item Select a directory where Cygwin is to be installed (you can
  leave the default) and choose all other things to your liking, then
  click next
\item Select a temp dir for Cygwin setup to store some files (if you
  put it on your desktop you will later remember to delete it)
\item Select ``direct connection'' (default) and click next
\item Select some mirror site that seems close by to you and click next
\item OK, now comes the complicated part:\\
  You need to select the packages that you want to have installed.  By
  default, there are already selections, but the compilers are usually
  not pre-chosen.  You need to make sure that you select the GNU
  compilers (for Fortran, C, and C++ --- together with the MinGW
  options), the GNU Make, and Subversion.  For this, click on the "Devel"
  branch (which opens a subtree) and select:
  \begin{itemize}
  \item gcc
  \item gcc-core
  \item gcc-g77
  \item gcc-g++
  \item gcc-mingw
  \item gcc-mingw-core
  \item gcc-mingw-g77
  \item gcc-mingw-g++
  \item make
  \item subversion
  \end{itemize}

  Then, in the ``Web'' branch, please select ``wget'' (which will make
  the installation of third party dependencies for \Ipopt\ easier)

  This will automatically also select some other packages.
\item\label{it:cyg_done} Then you click on next, and Cygwin will be
  installed (follow the rest of the instructions and choose everything
  else to your liking).  At a later point you can easily add/remove
  packages with the setup program.

\item Now that you have Cygwin, you can open a Cygwin window, which is
  like a UNIX shell window.

\item\label{it:cyg_inst} Now you just follow the instructions in the
  beginning of Sections~\ref{Installing}: You download the \Ipopt\
  code into your Cygwin home directory (from the Windows explorer that
  is usually something like
  \texttt{C:$\backslash$Cygwin$\backslash$home$\backslash$your\_user\_name}).
  After that you obtain the third party code (like on Linux/UNIX),
  type

  \texttt{./configure}

  and

  \texttt{make install}

  in the correct directories, and hopefully that will work.  The
  \Ipopt\ AMPL solver executable will be in the subdirectory
  \texttt{bin} (called ``\texttt{ipopt.exe}'').  If you want to set
  the installation, type

  \texttt{make test}

  \textbf{NOTE:} By default, the compiled binaries (library and
  executables) will be ``Cygwin-native'', i.e., in order to run
  executables using this, the {\tt Cygwin1.dll} has to be present
  (e.g., in a Cygwin window).  If you want to compile things in a way
  that allow your executables to run outside of Cygwin, e.g., in a
  regular DOS prompt, you need to specify the option ``{\tt
    --enable-doscompile}'' when you run {\tt configure}.
\end{enumerate}

\subsubsection{Installation with Cygwin using the MSCV++ compiler}
\label{CygwinInstallNative}

This section describes how you can compile \Ipopt\ with the Microsoft
Visual C++ compiler under Cygwin.  Here you have two options for
compiling the Fortran code in the third party dependencies:

\begin{itemize}
\item Using a Windows Fortran compiler, e.g. the Intel Fortran
  compiler, which is also able to compile Fortran 90 code.  This would
  allow you to compile the MUMPS linear solver if you desire to do so.
\item Using the {\tt f2c} Fortran to C compiler, available for free at
  Netlib (see {\tt http://www.netlib.org/f2c}).  This can only compile
  Fortran 77 code (i.e., you won't be able to compile MUMPS).  Before
  doing the following installation steps, you need to follow the
  instructions in\\ {\tt\$IPOPTDIR/BuildTools/compile\_f2c/INSTALL}.
\end{itemize}

\noindent
Once you have settled on this, do the following:

\begin{enumerate}
\item Follow the instructions in Section~\ref{CygwinInstall} until
  Step~\ref{it:cyg_inst} and stop after your downloaded the third
  party code.

\item\label{it:setupmsvcpath} Now you need to make sure that Cygwin
  knows about the native compilers.  For this you need to edit the
  file {\tt cygwin.bat} in the Cygwin base directory (usually {\tt
    C:$\backslash$cygwin}).  Here you need to add a line like the
  following:

  \texttt{call "C:$\backslash$Program Files$\backslash$Microsoft Visual
    Studio 8$\backslash$VC$\backslash$vcvarsall.bat"}

  On my computer, this set the environment variables to that I can use
  the MSVC++ compiler.

  If you want to use also a native Fortran compiler, you need to
  include something like this

  \texttt{call "C:$\backslash$Program
    Files$\backslash$Intel$\backslash$Fortran$\backslash$compiler80$\backslash$IA32$\backslash$BIN$\backslash$ifortvars.bat"}

  You might have to search around a bit.  The important thing is that,
  after your change, you can type ``{\tt cl}'' in a newly opened
  Cygwin windows, and it finds the Microsoft C++ compiler (and if you
  want to use it, the Fortran compiler, such as the Intel's {\tt
    ifort}).

\item Run the configuration script, and tell it that you want to use
  the native compilers:

  \texttt{./configure --enable-doscompile=msvc}

  Make sure the last message is

  \texttt{Main Ipopt configuration successful}

\item\label{it:ASLcompile} If want to compile the AMPL solver
  executable, you need to compile the ASL library from a script.  For
  this you need to change into the ASL compilation directory, execute
  the script \texttt{compile\_MS\_ASL}, and go back to the directory
  where you were:

  \texttt{cd ThirdParty/ASL}

  \texttt{./compile\_MS\_ASL}

  \texttt{cd -}

\item Now you can compile the code with

  \texttt{make},

  test the installation with

  \texttt{make test},

  and install everything with

  \texttt{make install}
\end{enumerate}

\subsubsection{Installation with MSYS/MinGW}\label{MinGWInstall}

You can compile \Ipopt\ also under MSYS/MinGW, which is another, more
light-weight UNIX-like environment for Windows.  It can be obtained
from \texttt{http://www.mingw.org/}.

If you want to use MSYS/MinGW to compiler \Ipopt\ with native Windows
compilers (see Section~\ref{CygwinInstallNative}), all you need to
install is the basic version\footnote{which used to come as a
  convenient Windows install program, but as I'm writing this, I can't
  find it on the web\ldots}.  If you also want to use the GNU
compilers, you need to install those as well, of course.

A compilation with the GNU compilers works just like with any other
UNIX system, as described in Section~\ref{sec.comp_and_inst}.  If you
want to use the native MSVC++ compiler (with {\tt f2c} or a native
Fortran compiler), you essentially follow the steps outlined in
Section~\ref{CygwinInstallNative}.  In the latter case, you again need
to make sure that the environment variables are set for the compilers
(see step~\ref{it:setupmsvcpath}), this time adding the line to the
{\tt msys.bat} file.  Also, you need to run the
\texttt{compile\_MS\_ASL} script in the \texttt{ThirdParty/ASL}
immediately after you run the configuration script.

\subsubsection{Using Microsoft Visual Studio}\label{VisualStudioInstall}

\textbf{NEW:} Some binaries for \Ipopt\ are available on the COIN website at

\texttt{http://www.coin-or.org/download/binary/Ipopt/}

\noindent
There are also precompiled versions of Ipopt as DLLs (generated from
the MSVC solution in \Ipopt's subdirecotry
\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/Ipopt/MSVisualStudio/v8-ifort}.  Look at the
\texttt{README} files for details.  An example how to use these DLLs
from your own MSVC project is in\\
\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/Ipopt/MSVisualStudio/BinaryDLL-Link-Example}.

The \Ipopt\ distribution includes project files that can be used to
compile the \Ipopt\ library, the AMPL solver executable, and a C++
example within the Microsoft Visual Studio.  The project files have
been created with Microsoft Visual 8 Express.  Fortran files in the
third party dependencies need to be converted to C code using the {\tt
  f2c} Fortran to C compiler\footnote{Projects files for a previous
  version of \Ipopt\ that used the Intel Fortran compiler are in
  {\$IPOPTDIR$\backslash$Ipopt$\backslash$NoLongerMaintainedWindows},
  but they are probably outdated, and you will have to correct them.}.

In order to use those project files, download the \Ipopt\ source code,
as well as the required third party code (put it into the {\tt
  ThirdParty$\backslash$Blas}, {\tt ThirdParty$\backslash$Lapack},
{\tt ThirdParty$\backslash$HSL}, {\tt  ThirdParty$\backslash$ASL}
directories.  Detailed step-by-step instructions on how to install
{\tt f2c}, translate the Fortran code to C files, and further details
are described in the file

\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR$\backslash$Ipopt$\backslash$MSVisualStudio$\backslash$v8$\backslash$README.TXT}

After that, you can open the solution file

\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR$\backslash$Ipopt$\backslash$MSVisualStudio$\backslash$v8$\backslash$Ipopt.sln}

If you are compiling \Ipopt\ with different linear solvers, you need
to edit the configuration header file
\texttt{Ipopt$\backslash$src$\backslash$Common$\backslash$IpoptConfig.h},
in the section after
\begin{verbatim}
/***************************************************************************/
/*             HERE DEFINE THE CONFIGURATION SPECIFIC MACROS               */
/***************************************************************************/
\end{verbatim}
and include the corresponding source files in
\texttt{Ipopt$\backslash$src$\backslash$Algorithm$\backslash$LinearSolvers}
and add the corresponding libraries to your project.

\section{Interfacing your NLP to \Ipopt: A tutorial example.}
\label{sec:tutorial-example}

\Ipopt\ has been designed to be flexible for a wide variety of
applications, and there are a number of ways to interface with \Ipopt\
that allow specific data structures and linear solver
techniques. Nevertheless, the authors have included a standard
representation that should meet the needs of most users.

This tutorial will discuss four interfaces to \Ipopt, namely the AMPL
modeling language\cite{FouGayKer:AMPLbook} interface, and the C++, C,
and Fortran code interfaces.  AMPL is a 3rd party modeling language
tool that allows users to write their optimization problem in a syntax
that resembles the way the problem would be written mathematically.
Once the problem has been formulated in AMPL, the problem can be
easily solved using the (already compiled) \Ipopt\ AMPL solver
executable, {\tt ipopt}. Interfacing your problem by directly linking
code requires more effort to write, but can be far more efficient for
large problems.

We will illustrate how to use each of the four interfaces using an
example problem, number 71 from the Hock-Schittkowsky test suite \cite{HS},
%\begin{subequations}\label{HS71}
  \begin{eqnarray}
    \min_{x \in \Re^4} &&x_1 x_4 (x_1 + x_2 + x_3)  +  x_3 \label{eq:ex_obj} \\
    \mbox{s.t.}  &&x_1 x_2 x_3 x_4 \ge 25 \label{eq:ex_ineq} \\
    &&x_1^2 + x_2^2 + x_3^2 + x_4^2  =  40 \label{eq:ex_equ} \\
    &&1 \leq x_1, x_2, x_3, x_4 \leq 5, \label{eq:ex_bounds}
  \end{eqnarray}
%\end{subequations}
with the starting point
\begin{equation}
x_0 = (1, 5, 5, 1) \label{eq:ex_startpt}
\end{equation}
and the optimal solution
\[
x_* = (1.00000000, 4.74299963, 3.82114998, 1.37940829). \nonumber
\]

You can find further, less documented examples for using \Ipopt\ from
your own source code in the {\tt Ipopt/examples} subdirectory.

\subsection{Using \Ipopt\ through AMPL}
Using the AMPL solver executable is by far the easiest way to
solve a problem with \Ipopt. The user must simply formulate the problem
in AMPL syntax, and solve the problem through the AMPL environment.
There are drawbacks, however. AMPL is a 3rd party package and, as
such, must be appropriately licensed (a free student version for
limited problem size is available from the AMPL website,
\texttt{www.ampl.com}). Furthermore, the AMPL environment may be prohibitive
for very large problems. Nevertheless, formulating the problem in AMPL
is straightforward and even for large problems, it is often used as a
prototyping tool before using one of the code interfaces.

This tutorial is not intended as a guide to formulating models in
AMPL. If you are not already familiar with AMPL, please consult
\cite{FouGayKer:AMPLbook}.

The problem presented in equations
(\ref{eq:ex_obj})--(\ref{eq:ex_startpt}) can be solved with \Ipopt\ with
the AMPL model file given in Figure~\ref{fig:HS71}.

\begin{figure}
  \centering
\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
# tell ampl to use the ipopt executable as a solver
# make sure ipopt is in the path!
option solver ipopt;

# declare the variables and their bounds, 
# set notation could be used, but this is straightforward
var x1 >= 1, <= 5; 
var x2 >= 1, <= 5; 
var x3 >= 1, <= 5; 
var x4 >= 1, <= 5;

# specify the objective function
minimize obj:
                x1 * x4 * (x1 + x2 + x3) + x3;
        
# specify the constraints
s.t.
        inequality:
                x1 * x2 * x3 * x4 >= 25;
                
        equality:
                x1^2 + x2^2 + x3^2 +x4^2 = 40;

# specify the starting point            
let x1 := 1;
let x2 := 5;
let x3 := 5;
let x4 := 1;

# solve the problem
solve;

# print the solution
display x1;
display x2;
display x3;
display x4;
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}
  
  \caption{AMPL model file hs071\_ampl.mod}
  \label{fig:HS71}
\end{figure}

The line, ``{\tt option solver ipopt;}'' tells AMPL to use \Ipopt\ as
the solver. The \Ipopt\ executable (installed in
Section~\ref{sec.comp_and_inst}) must be in the {\tt PATH} for AMPL to
find it. The remaining lines specify the problem in AMPL format. The
problem can now be solved by starting AMPL and loading the mod file:
\begin{verbatim}
$ ampl
> model hs071_ampl.mod;
.
.
.
\end{verbatim}
%$
The problem will be solved using \Ipopt\ and the solution will be
displayed.

At this point, AMPL users may wish to skip the sections about
interfacing with code, but should read Section \ref{sec:options}
concerning \Ipopt\ options, and Section \ref{sec:output} which
explains the output displayed by \Ipopt.

\subsubsection{Using Ipopt from the command line}

It is possible to solve AMPL problems with {\tt Ipopt} directly from
the command line. However, this requires a file in format {\tt .nl}
produced by {\tt ampl}.  If you have a model and data loaded in {\tt
  Ampl}, you can create the corresponding {\tt .nl} file with name,
say, {\tt myprob.nl} by using the {\tt Ampl} command:

{\tt write gmyprob}

There is a small {\tt .nl} file available in the {\tt Ipopt} distribution. It is
located at {\tt Ipopt/test/mytoy.nl}. 
We use this file in the remainder of this section. We assume that the file
{\tt mytoy.nl} is in the current directory and that the command 
{\tt ipopt} is a shortcut for running the {\tt ipopt} binary available
in the {\tt bin} directory of the installation of {\tt Ipopt}. 

We list below commands to perform basic tasks from the Linux prompt.

\begin{itemize}
\item To solve {\tt mytoy.nl} from the Linux prompt, use:

{\tt ipopt mytoy}

\item To see all command line options for {\tt Ipopt}, use:

{\tt ipopt -=}

\item To see more detailed information on all options for {\tt Ipopt}:

{\tt ipopt mytoy 'print\_options\_documentation yes'}

\item To run {\tt ipopt}, setting the maximum number of iterations to 2 and 
print level to 4:

{\tt ipopt mytoy 'max\_iter 2 print\_level 4'}
\end{itemize}

If many options are to be set, they can be collected in a file {\tt
  ipopt.opt} that is automatically read by {\tt Ipopt} if present in
the current directory, see Section \ref{sec:options}.


\subsection{Interfacing with \Ipopt\ through code}
In order to solve a problem, \Ipopt\ needs more information than just
the problem definition (for example, the derivative information). If
you are using a modeling language like AMPL, the extra information is
provided by the modeling tool and the \Ipopt\ interface. When
interfacing with \Ipopt\ through your own code, however, you must
provide this additional information.

\begin{figure}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Problem dimensions \label{it.prob_dim}
  \begin{itemize}
  \item number of variables
  \item number of constraints
  \end{itemize}
\item Problem bounds
  \begin{itemize}
  \item variable bounds
  \item constraint bounds
  \end{itemize}
\item Initial starting point
  \begin{itemize}
  \item Initial values for the primal $x$ variables
  \item Initial values for the multipliers (only
    required for a warm start option)
  \end{itemize}
\item Problem Structure \label{it.prob_struct}
  \begin{itemize}
  \item number of nonzeros in the Jacobian of the constraints
  \item number of nonzeros in the Hessian of the Lagrangian function
  \item sparsity structure of the Jacobian of the constraints
  \item sparsity structure of the Hessian of the Lagrangian function
  \end{itemize}
\item Evaluation of Problem Functions \label{it.prob_eval} \\
  Information evaluated using a given point ($x,
  \lambda, \sigma_f$ coming from \Ipopt)
  \begin{itemize}
  \item Objective function, $f(x)$
  \item Gradient of the objective $\nabla f(x)$
  \item Constraint function values, $g(x)$
  \item Jacobian of the constraints, $\nabla g(x)^T$
  \item Hessian of the Lagrangian function, 
    $\sigma_f \nabla^2 f(x) + \sum_{i=1}^m\lambda_i\nabla^2
    g_i(x)$ \\
    (this is not required if a quasi-Newton options is chosen to
    approximate the second derivatives)
  \end{itemize}
\end{enumerate}
\caption{Information required by \Ipopt}
\label{fig.required_info}
\end{figure}
%\vspace{0.1in}
The information required by \Ipopt\ is shown in Figure
\ref{fig.required_info}. The problem dimensions and bounds are
straightforward and come solely from the problem definition. The
initial starting point is used by the algorithm when it begins
iterating to solve the problem. If \Ipopt\ has difficulty converging, or
if it converges to a locally infeasible point, adjusting the starting
point may help.  Depending on the starting point, \Ipopt\ may also
converge to different local solutions.

Providing the sparsity structure of derivative matrices is a bit more
involved. \Ipopt\ is a nonlinear programming solver that is designed
for solving large-scale, sparse problems. While \Ipopt\ can be
customized for a variety of matrix formats, the triplet format is used
for the standard interfaces in this tutorial. For an overview of the
triplet format for sparse matrices, see Appendix~\ref{app.triplet}.
Before solving the problem, \Ipopt\ needs to know the number of
nonzero elements and the sparsity structure (row and column indices of
each of the nonzero entries) of the constraint Jacobian and the
Lagrangian function Hessian. Once defined, this nonzero structure MUST
remain constant for the entire optimization procedure. This means that
the structure needs to include entries for any element that could ever
be nonzero, not only those that are nonzero at the starting point.

As \Ipopt\ iterates, it will need the values for
Item~\ref{it.prob_eval}. in Figure~\ref{fig.required_info} evaluated at
particular points. Before we can begin coding the interface, however,
we need to work out the details of these equations symbolically for
example problem (\ref{eq:ex_obj})-(\ref{eq:ex_bounds}).

The gradient of the objective $f(x)$ is given by
\[%\begin{equation}
\left[
\begin{array}{c}
x_1 x_4 + x_4 (x_1 + x_2 + x_3) \\
x_1 x_4 \\
x_1 x_4 + 1 \\
x_1 (x_1 + x_2 + x_3)
\end{array}
\right],
\]%\end{equation}
and the Jacobian of the constraints $g(x)$ is
\[%\begin{equation}
\left[
\begin{array}{cccc}
x_2 x_3 x_4     & x_1 x_3 x_4   & x_1 x_2 x_4   & x_1 x_2 x_3   \\
2 x_1           & 2 x_2         & 2 x_3         & 2 x_4
\end{array}
\right].
\]%\end{equation}

We also need to determine the Hessian of the Lagrangian\footnote{If a
  quasi-Newton option is chosen to approximate the second derivatives,
  this is not required.  However, if second derivatives can be
  computed, it is often worthwhile to let \Ipopt\ use them, since the
  algorithm is then usually more robust and converges faster.  More on
  the quasi-Newton approximation in Section~\ref{sec:quasiNewton}.}.
The Lagrangian function for the NLP
(\ref{eq:ex_obj})-(\ref{eq:ex_bounds}) is defined as $f(x) + g(x)^T
\lambda$ and the Hessian of the Lagrangian function is, technically, $
\nabla^2 f(x_k) + \sum_{i=1}^m\lambda_i\nabla^2 g_i(x_k)$.  However,
so that \Ipopt\ can ask for the Hessian of the objective or the
constraints independently if required, we introduce a factor
($\sigma_f$) in front of the objective term.
%
For \Ipopt\ then, the symbolic form of the Hessian of the
Lagrangian is
\begin{equation}\label{eq:IpoptLAG}
\sigma_f \nabla^2 f(x_k) + \sum_{i=1}^m\lambda_i\nabla^2 g_i(x_k)
\end{equation}
(with the $\sigma_f$ parameter), and for the example problem this becomes
%\begin{eqnarray}
%{\cal L}(x,\lambda) &{=}& f(x) + c(x)^T \lambda \nonumber \\
%&{=}& \left(x_1 x_4 (x_1 + x_2 + x_3)  +  x_3\right) 
%+ \left(x_1 x_2 x_3 x_4\right) \lambda_1 \nonumber \\
%&& \;\;\;\;\;+ \left(x_1^2 + x_2^2 + x_3^2 + x_4^2\right) \lambda_2 
%- \displaystyle \sum_{i \in 1..4} z^L_i + \sum_{i \in 1..4} z^U_i
%\end{eqnarray}
\[%\begin{equation}
\sigma_f \left[
\begin{array}{cccc}
2 x_4           & x_4           & x_4           & 2 x_1 + x_2 + x_3     \\
x_4             & 0             & 0             & x_1                   \\
x_4             & 0             & 0             & x_1                   \\
2 x_1+x_2+x_3   & x_1           & x_1           & 0
\end{array}
\right]
+
\lambda_1
\left[
\begin{array}{cccc}
0               & x_3 x_4       & x_2 x_4       & x_2 x_3       \\
x_3 x_4         & 0             & x_1 x_4       & x_1 x_3       \\
x_2 x_4         & x_1 x_4       & 0             & x_1 x_2       \\
x_2 x_3         & x_1 x_3       & x_1 x_2       & 0 
\end{array}
\right]
+
\lambda_2
\left[
\begin{array}{cccc}
2       & 0     & 0     & 0     \\
0       & 2     & 0     & 0     \\
0       & 0     & 2     & 0     \\
0       & 0     & 0     & 2
\end{array}
\right]
\]%\end{equation}
where the first term comes from the Hessian of the objective function,
and the second and third term from the Hessian of the constraints
(\ref{eq:ex_ineq}) and (\ref{eq:ex_equ}), respectively. Therefore, the
dual variables $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_2$ are then the multipliers
for constraints (\ref{eq:ex_ineq}) and (\ref{eq:ex_equ}), respectively.

%C =============================================================================
%C
%C     This is an example for the usage of IPOPT.
%C     It implements problem 71 from the Hock-Schittkowsky test suite:
%C
%C     min   x1*x4*(x1 + x2 + x3)  +  x3
%C     s.t.  x1*x2*x3*x4                   >=  25
%C           x1**2 + x2**2 + x3**2 + x4**2  =  40
%C           1 <=  x1,x2,x3,x4  <= 5
%C
%C     Starting point:
%C        x = (1, 5, 5, 1)
%C
%C     Optimal solution:
%C        x = (1.00000000, 4.74299963, 3.82114998, 1.37940829)
%C
%C =============================================================================
\vspace{\baselineskip}

The remaining sections of the tutorial will lead you through
the coding required to solve example problem
(\ref{eq:ex_obj})--(\ref{eq:ex_bounds}) using, first C++, then C, and finally
Fortran. Completed versions of these examples can be found in {\tt
\$IPOPTDIR/Ipopt/examples} under {\tt hs071\_cpp}, {\tt hs071\_c}, {\tt
hs071\_f}.

As a user, you are responsible for coding two sections of the program
that solves a problem using \Ipopt: the main executable (e.g., {\tt
  main}) and the problem representation.  Typically, you will write an
executable that prepares the problem, and then passes control over to
\Ipopt\ through an {\tt Optimize} or {\tt Solve} call. In this call,
you will give \Ipopt\ everything that it requires to call back to your
code whenever it needs functions evaluated (like the objective
function, the Jacobian of the constraints, etc.).  In each of the
three sections that follow (C++, C, and Fortran), we will first
discuss how to code the problem representation, and then how to code
the executable.

\subsection{The C++ Interface}
This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the C++ programming
language, however, we will lead you through each step of the
implementation. For the problem representation, we will create a class
that inherits off of the pure virtual base class, {\tt TNLP} ({\tt
  IpTNLP.hpp}). For the executable (the {\tt main} function) we will
make the call to \Ipopt\ through the {\tt IpoptApplication} class
({\tt IpIpoptApplication.hpp}). In addition, we will also be using the
{\tt SmartPtr} class ({\tt IpSmartPtr.hpp}) which implements a reference
counting pointer that takes care of memory management (object
deletion) for you (for details, see Appendix~\ref{app.smart_ptr}).

After ``\texttt{make install}'' (see Section~\ref{sec.comp_and_inst}),
the header files are installed in \texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/include/coin}
(or in \texttt{\$PREFIX/include/coin} if the switch
\verb|--prefix=$PREFIX| was used for {\tt configure}).

\subsubsection{Coding the Problem Representation}\label{sec.cpp_problem}
We provide the information required in Figure \ref{fig.required_info}
by coding the {\tt HS071\_NLP} class, a specific implementation of the
{\tt TNLP} base class. In the executable, we will create an instance
of the {\tt HS071\_NLP} class and give this class to \Ipopt\ so it can
evaluate the problem functions through the {\tt TNLP} interface. If
you have any difficulty as the implementation proceeds, have a look at
the completed example in the {\tt Ipopt/examples/hs071\_cpp} directory.

Start by creating a new directory under {\tt examples}, called {\tt
  MyExample} and create the files {\tt hs071\_nlp.hpp} and {\tt
  hs071\_nlp.cpp}. In {\tt hs071\_nlp.hpp}, include {\tt IpTNLP.hpp}
(the base class), tell the compiler that we are using the \Ipopt\
namespace, and create the declaration of the {\tt HS071\_NLP} class,
inheriting off of {\tt TNLP}. Have a look at the {\tt TNLP} class in
{\tt IpTNLP.hpp}; you will see eight pure virtual methods that we must
implement. Declare these methods in the header file.  Implement each
of the methods in {\tt HS071\_NLP.cpp} using the descriptions given
below. In {\tt hs071\_nlp.cpp}, first include the header file for your
class and tell the compiler that you are using the \Ipopt\ namespace.
A full version of these files can be found in the {\tt
  Ipopt/examples/hs071\_cpp} directory.

It is very easy to make mistakes in the implementation of the function
evaluation methods, in particular regarding the derivatives.  \Ipopt\
has a feature that can help you to debug the derivative code, using
finite differences, see Section~\ref{sec:deriv-checker}.

Note that the return value of any {\tt bool}-valued function should be
{\tt true}, unless an error occurred, for example, because the value of
a problem function could not be evaluated at the required point.

\paragraph{Method {\texttt{get\_nlp\_info}}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool get_nlp_info(Index& n, Index& m, Index& nnz_jac_g,
                          Index& nnz_h_lag, IndexStyleEnum& index_style)
\end{verbatim}
Give \Ipopt\ the information about the size of the problem (and hence,
the size of the arrays that it needs to allocate). 
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (out), the number of variables in the problem (dimension of $x$).
\item {\tt m}: (out), the number of constraints in the problem (dimension of $g(x)$).
\item {\tt nnz\_jac\_g}: (out), the number of nonzero entries in the Jacobian.
\item {\tt nnz\_h\_lag}: (out), the number of nonzero entries in the Hessian.
\item {\tt index\_style}: (out), the numbering style used for row/col entries in the sparse matrix
format ({\tt C\_STYLE}: 0-based, {\tt FORTRAN\_STYLE}: 1-based; see
also Appendix~\ref{app.triplet}).
\end{itemize}
\Ipopt\ uses this information when allocating the arrays that
it will later ask you to fill with values. Be careful in this method
since incorrect values will cause memory bugs which may be very
difficult to find.

Our example problem has 4 variables (n), and 2 constraints (m). The
constraint Jacobian for this small problem is actually dense and has 8
nonzeros (we still need to represent this Jacobian using the sparse
matrix triplet format). The Hessian of the Lagrangian has 10
``symmetric'' nonzeros (i.e., nonzeros in the lower left triangular
part.).  Keep in mind that the number of nonzeros is the total number
of elements that may \emph{ever} be nonzero, not just those that are
nonzero at the starting point. This information is set once for the
entire problem.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
bool HS071_NLP::get_nlp_info(Index& n, Index& m, Index& nnz_jac_g, 
                             Index& nnz_h_lag, IndexStyleEnum& index_style)
{
  // The problem described in HS071_NLP.hpp has 4 variables, x[0] through x[3]
  n = 4;

  // one equality constraint and one inequality constraint
  m = 2;

  // in this example the Jacobian is dense and contains 8 nonzeros
  nnz_jac_g = 8;

  // the Hessian is also dense and has 16 total nonzeros, but we
  // only need the lower left corner (since it is symmetric)
  nnz_h_lag = 10;

  // use the C style indexing (0-based)
  index_style = TNLP::C_STYLE;

  return true;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

\paragraph{Method {\texttt{get\_bounds\_info}}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool get_bounds_info(Index n, Number* x_l, Number* x_u,
                             Index m, Number* g_l, Number* g_u)
\end{verbatim}
Give \Ipopt\ the value of the bounds on the variables and constraints.
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (in), the number of variables in the problem (dimension of $x$). 
\item {\tt x\_l}: (out) the lower bounds $x^L$ for $x$. 
\item {\tt x\_u}: (out) the upper bounds $x^U$ for $x$.
\item {\tt m}: (in), the number of constraints in the problem (dimension of $g(x)$).
\item {\tt g\_l}: (out) the lower bounds $g^L$ for $g(x)$. 
\item {\tt g\_u}: (out) the upper bounds $g^U$ for $g(x)$.
\end{itemize}
The values of {\tt n} and {\tt m} that you specified in {\tt
  get\_nlp\_info} are passed to you for debug checking.  Setting a
lower bound to a value less than or equal to the value of the option
{\tt nlp\_lower\_bound\_inf} will cause \Ipopt\ to assume no lower
bound. Likewise, specifying the upper bound above or equal to the
value of the option {\tt nlp\_upper\_bound\_inf} will cause \Ipopt\ to
assume no upper bound.  These options, {\tt nlp\_lower\_bound\_inf}
and {\tt nlp\_upper\_bound\_inf}, are set to $-10^{19}$ and $10^{19}$,
respectively, by default, but may be modified by changing the options
(see Section \ref{sec:options}).

In our example, the first constraint has a lower bound of $25$ and no upper
bound, so we set the lower bound of constraint {\tt [0]} to $25$ and
the upper bound to some number greater than $10^{19}$. The second
constraint is an equality constraint and we set both bounds to
$40$. \Ipopt\ recognizes this as an equality constraint and does not
treat it as two inequalities.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
bool HS071_NLP::get_bounds_info(Index n, Number* x_l, Number* x_u,
                                Index m, Number* g_l, Number* g_u)
{
  // here, the n and m we gave IPOPT in get_nlp_info are passed back to us.
  // If desired, we could assert to make sure they are what we think they are.
  assert(n == 4);
  assert(m == 2);

  // the variables have lower bounds of 1
  for (Index i=0; i<4; i++) {
    x_l[i] = 1.0;
  }

  // the variables have upper bounds of 5
  for (Index i=0; i<4; i++) {
    x_u[i] = 5.0;
  }

  // the first constraint g1 has a lower bound of 25
  g_l[0] = 25;
  // the first constraint g1 has NO upper bound, here we set it to 2e19.
  // Ipopt interprets any number greater than nlp_upper_bound_inf as 
  // infinity. The default value of nlp_upper_bound_inf and nlp_lower_bound_inf
  // is 1e19 and can be changed through ipopt options.
  g_u[0] = 2e19;

  // the second constraint g2 is an equality constraint, so we set the 
  // upper and lower bound to the same value
  g_l[1] = g_u[1] = 40.0;

  return true;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

\paragraph{Method {\texttt{get\_starting\_point}}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool get_starting_point(Index n, bool init_x, Number* x,
                                bool init_z, Number* z_L, Number* z_U,
                                Index m, bool init_lambda, Number* lambda)
\end{verbatim}
Give \Ipopt\ the starting point before it begins iterating.
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (in), the number of variables in the problem (dimension of $x$). 
\item {\tt init\_x}: (in), if true, this method must provide an initial value for $x$.
\item {\tt x}: (out), the initial values for the primal variables, $x$.
\item {\tt init\_z}: (in), if true, this method must provide an initial value 
        for the bound multipliers $z^L$ and $z^U$.
\item {\tt z\_L}: (out), the initial values for the bound multipliers, $z^L$.
\item {\tt z\_U}: (out), the initial values for the bound multipliers, $z^U$.
\item {\tt m}: (in), the number of constraints in the problem (dimension of $g(x)$).
\item {\tt init\_lambda}: (in), if true, this method must provide an initial value 
        for the constraint multipliers, $\lambda$.
\item {\tt lambda}: (out), the initial values for the constraint multipliers, $\lambda$.
\end{itemize}

The variables {\tt n} and {\tt m} are passed in for your convenience.
These variables will have the same values you specified in {\tt
  get\_nlp\_info}.

Depending on the options that have been set, \Ipopt\ may or may not
require bounds for the primal variables $x$, the bound multipliers
$z^L$ and $z^U$, and the constraint multipliers $\lambda$. The boolean
flags {\tt init\_x}, {\tt init\_z}, and {\tt init\_lambda} tell you
whether or not you should provide initial values for $x$, $z^L$, $z^U$, or
$\lambda$ respectively. The default options only require an initial
value for the primal variables $x$.  Note, the initial values for
bound multiplier components for ``infinity'' bounds
($x_L^{(i)}=-\infty$ or $x_U^{(i)}=\infty$) are ignored.

In our example, we provide initial values for $x$ as specified in the
example problem. We do not provide any initial values for the dual
variables, but use an assert to immediately let us know if we are ever
asked for them.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
bool HS071_NLP::get_starting_point(Index n, bool init_x, Number* x,
                                   bool init_z, Number* z_L, Number* z_U,
                                   Index m, bool init_lambda,
                                   Number* lambda)
{
  // Here, we assume we only have starting values for x, if you code
  // your own NLP, you can provide starting values for the dual variables
  // if you wish to use a warmstart option
  assert(init_x == true);
  assert(init_z == false);
  assert(init_lambda == false);

  // initialize to the given starting point
  x[0] = 1.0;
  x[1] = 5.0;
  x[2] = 5.0;
  x[3] = 1.0;

  return true;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

\paragraph{Method {\texttt{eval\_f}}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool eval_f(Index n, const Number* x, 
                    bool new_x, Number& obj_value)
\end{verbatim}
Return the value of the objective function at the point $x$.
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (in), the number of variables in the problem (dimension
  of $x$).
\item {\tt x}: (in), the values for the primal variables, $x$, at which
  $f(x)$ is to be evaluated.
\item {\tt new\_x}: (in), false if any evaluation method was
  previously called with the same values in {\tt x}, true otherwise.
\item {\tt obj\_value}: (out) the value of the objective function
  ($f(x)$).
\end{itemize}

The boolean variable {\tt new\_x} will be false if the last call to
any of the evaluation methods ({\tt eval\_*}) used the same $x$
values. This can be helpful when users have efficient implementations
that calculate multiple outputs at once. \Ipopt\ internally caches
results from the {\tt TNLP} and generally, this flag can be ignored.

The variable {\tt n} is passed in for your convenience. This variable
will have the same value you specified in {\tt get\_nlp\_info}.

For our example, we ignore the {\tt new\_x} flag and calculate the objective.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
bool HS071_NLP::eval_f(Index n, const Number* x, bool new_x, Number& obj_value)
{
  assert(n == 4);

  obj_value = x[0] * x[3] * (x[0] + x[1] + x[2]) + x[2];

  return true;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

\paragraph{Method {\texttt{eval\_grad\_f}}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool eval_grad_f(Index n, const Number* x, bool new_x, 
                         Number* grad_f)
\end{verbatim}
Return the gradient of the objective function at the point $x$.
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (in), the number of variables in the problem (dimension of $x$). 
\item {\tt x}: (in), the values for the primal variables, $x$, at which
  $\nabla f(x)$ is to be evaluated.
\item {\tt new\_x}: (in), false if any evaluation method was previously called 
        with the same values in {\tt x}, true otherwise.
\item {\tt grad\_f}: (out) the array of values for the gradient of the 
        objective function ($\nabla f(x)$).
\end{itemize}

The gradient array is in the same order as the $x$ variables (i.e., the
gradient of the objective with respect to {\tt x[2]} should be put in
{\tt grad\_f[2]}).

The boolean variable {\tt new\_x} will be false if the last call to
any of the evaluation methods ({\tt eval\_*}) used the same $x$
values. This can be helpful when users have efficient implementations
that calculate multiple outputs at once. \Ipopt\ internally caches
results from the {\tt TNLP} and generally, this flag can be ignored.

The variable {\tt n} is passed in for your convenience. This
variable will have the same value you specified in {\tt
get\_nlp\_info}.

In our example, we ignore the {\tt new\_x} flag and calculate the
values for the gradient of the objective.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
bool HS071_NLP::eval_grad_f(Index n, const Number* x, bool new_x, Number* grad_f)
{
  assert(n == 4);

  grad_f[0] = x[0] * x[3] + x[3] * (x[0] + x[1] + x[2]);
  grad_f[1] = x[0] * x[3];
  grad_f[2] = x[0] * x[3] + 1;
  grad_f[3] = x[0] * (x[0] + x[1] + x[2]);

  return true;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

\paragraph{Method {\texttt{eval\_g}}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool eval_g(Index n, const Number* x, 
                    bool new_x, Index m, Number* g)
\end{verbatim}
Return the value of the constraint function at the point $x$.
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (in), the number of variables in the problem (dimension of $x$). 
\item {\tt x}: (in), the values for the primal variables, $x$, at
  which the constraint functions,
  $g(x)$, are to be evaluated.
\item {\tt new\_x}: (in), false if any evaluation method was previously called 
        with the same values in {\tt x}, true otherwise.
\item {\tt m}: (in), the number of constraints in the problem (dimension of $g(x)$).
\item {\tt g}: (out) the array of constraint function values, $g(x)$.
\end{itemize}

The values returned in {\tt g} should be only the $g(x)$ values, 
do not add or subtract the bound values $g^L$ or $g^U$.

The boolean variable {\tt new\_x} will be false if the last call to
any of the evaluation methods ({\tt eval\_*}) used the same $x$
values. This can be helpful when users have efficient implementations
that calculate multiple outputs at once. \Ipopt\ internally caches
results from the {\tt TNLP} and generally, this flag can be ignored.

The variables {\tt n} and {\tt m} are passed in for your convenience.
These variables will have the same values you specified in {\tt
  get\_nlp\_info}.

In our example, we ignore the {\tt new\_x} flag and calculate the
values of constraint functions.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
bool HS071_NLP::eval_g(Index n, const Number* x, bool new_x, Index m, Number* g)
{
  assert(n == 4);
  assert(m == 2);

  g[0] = x[0] * x[1] * x[2] * x[3];
  g[1] = x[0]*x[0] + x[1]*x[1] + x[2]*x[2] + x[3]*x[3];

  return true;
} 
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

\paragraph{Method {\texttt{eval\_jac\_g}}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool eval_jac_g(Index n, const Number* x, bool new_x,
                        Index m, Index nele_jac, Index* iRow, 
                        Index *jCol, Number* values)
\end{verbatim}
Return either the sparsity structure of the Jacobian of the
constraints, or the values for the Jacobian of the constraints at the
point $x$.
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (in), the number of variables in the problem (dimension of $x$). 
\item {\tt x}: (in), the values for the primal variables, $x$, at which
  the constraint Jacobian, $\nabla g(x)^T$, is to be evaluated.
\item {\tt new\_x}: (in), false if any evaluation method was previously called 
        with the same values in {\tt x}, true otherwise.
\item {\tt m}: (in), the number of constraints in the problem (dimension of $g(x)$).
\item {\tt n\_ele\_jac}: (in), the number of nonzero elements in the 
        Jacobian (dimension of {\tt iRow}, {\tt jCol}, and {\tt values}).
\item {\tt iRow}: (out), the row indices of entries in the Jacobian of the constraints.
\item {\tt jCol}: (out), the column indices of entries in the Jacobian of the constraints.
\item {\tt values}: (out), the values of the entries in the Jacobian of the constraints.
\end{itemize}

The Jacobian is the matrix of derivatives where the derivative of
constraint $g^{(i)}$ with respect to variable $x^{(j)}$ is placed in
row $i$ and column $j$. See Appendix \ref{app.triplet} for a
discussion of the sparse matrix format used in this method.

If the {\tt iRow} and {\tt jCol} arguments are not {\tt NULL}, then
\Ipopt\ wants you to fill in the sparsity structure of the Jacobian
(the row and column indices only). At this time, the {\tt x} argument
and the {\tt values} argument will be {\tt NULL}.

If the {\tt x} argument and the {\tt values} argument are not {\tt
  NULL}, then \Ipopt\ wants you to fill in the values of the Jacobian
as calculated from the array {\tt x} (using the same order as you used
when specifying the sparsity structure). At this time, the {\tt iRow}
and {\tt jCol} arguments will be {\tt NULL};

The boolean variable {\tt new\_x} will be false if the last call to
any of the evaluation methods ({\tt eval\_*}) used the same $x$
values. This can be helpful when users have efficient implementations
that calculate multiple outputs at once. \Ipopt\ internally caches
results from the {\tt TNLP} and generally, this flag can be ignored.

The variables {\tt n}, {\tt m}, and {\tt nele\_jac} are passed in for
your convenience. These arguments will have the same values you
specified in {\tt get\_nlp\_info}.

In our example, the Jacobian is actually dense, but we still
specify it using the sparse format.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
bool HS071_NLP::eval_jac_g(Index n, const Number* x, bool new_x,
                           Index m, Index nele_jac, Index* iRow, Index *jCol,
                           Number* values)
{
  if (values == NULL) {
    // return the structure of the Jacobian

    // this particular Jacobian is dense
    iRow[0] = 0; jCol[0] = 0;
    iRow[1] = 0; jCol[1] = 1;
    iRow[2] = 0; jCol[2] = 2;
    iRow[3] = 0; jCol[3] = 3;
    iRow[4] = 1; jCol[4] = 0;
    iRow[5] = 1; jCol[5] = 1;
    iRow[6] = 1; jCol[6] = 2;
    iRow[7] = 1; jCol[7] = 3;
  }
  else {
    // return the values of the Jacobian of the constraints
    
    values[0] = x[1]*x[2]*x[3]; // 0,0
    values[1] = x[0]*x[2]*x[3]; // 0,1
    values[2] = x[0]*x[1]*x[3]; // 0,2
    values[3] = x[0]*x[1]*x[2]; // 0,3

    values[4] = 2*x[0]; // 1,0
    values[5] = 2*x[1]; // 1,1
    values[6] = 2*x[2]; // 1,2
    values[7] = 2*x[3]; // 1,3
  }

  return true;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

\paragraph{Method {\texttt{eval\_h}}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool eval_h(Index n, const Number* x, bool new_x,
                    Number obj_factor, Index m, const Number* lambda,
                    bool new_lambda, Index nele_hess, Index* iRow,
                    Index* jCol, Number* values)
\end{verbatim}
Return either the sparsity structure of the Hessian of the Lagrangian, or the values of the 
Hessian of the Lagrangian (\ref{eq:IpoptLAG}) for the given values for $x$,
$\sigma_f$, and $\lambda$.
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (in), the number of variables in the problem (dimension
  of $x$).
\item {\tt x}: (in), the values for the primal variables, $x$, at which
  the Hessian is to be evaluated.
\item {\tt new\_x}: (in), false if any evaluation method was previously called 
        with the same values in {\tt x}, true otherwise.
\item {\tt obj\_factor}: (in), factor in front of the objective term
  in the Hessian, $sigma_f$.
\item {\tt m}: (in), the number of constraints in the problem (dimension of $g(x)$).
\item {\tt lambda}: (in), the values for the constraint multipliers,
  $\lambda$, at which the Hessian is to be evaluated.
\item {\tt new\_lambda}: (in), false if any evaluation method was
  previously called with the same values in {\tt lambda}, true
  otherwise.
\item {\tt nele\_hess}: (in), the number of nonzero elements in the
  Hessian (dimension of {\tt iRow}, {\tt jCol}, and {\tt values}).
\item {\tt iRow}: (out), the row indices of entries in the Hessian.
\item {\tt jCol}: (out), the column indices of entries in the Hessian.
\item {\tt values}: (out), the values of the entries in the Hessian.
\end{itemize}

The Hessian matrix that \Ipopt\ uses is defined in
Eq.~\ref{eq:IpoptLAG}.  See Appendix \ref{app.triplet} for a
discussion of the sparse symmetric matrix format used in this method.

If the {\tt iRow} and {\tt jCol} arguments are not {\tt NULL}, then
\Ipopt\ wants you to fill in the sparsity structure of the Hessian
(the row and column indices for the lower or upper triangular part
only). In this case, the {\tt x}, {\tt lambda}, and {\tt values}
arrays will be {\tt NULL}.

If the {\tt x}, {\tt lambda}, and {\tt values} arrays are not {\tt
  NULL}, then \Ipopt\ wants you to fill in the values of the Hessian
as calculated using {\tt x} and {\tt lambda} (using the same order as
you used when specifying the sparsity structure). In this case, the
{\tt iRow} and {\tt jCol} arguments will be {\tt NULL}.

The boolean variables {\tt new\_x} and {\tt new\_lambda} will both be
false if the last call to any of the evaluation methods ({\tt
  eval\_*}) used the same values. This can be helpful when users have
efficient implementations that calculate multiple outputs at once.
\Ipopt\ internally caches results from the {\tt TNLP} and generally,
this flag can be ignored.

The variables {\tt n}, {\tt m}, and {\tt nele\_hess} are passed in for
your convenience. These arguments will have the same values you
specified in {\tt get\_nlp\_info}.

In our example, the Hessian is dense, but we still specify it using the
sparse matrix format. Because the Hessian is symmetric, we only need to 
specify the lower left corner.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
bool HS071_NLP::eval_h(Index n, const Number* x, bool new_x,
                       Number obj_factor, Index m, const Number* lambda,
                       bool new_lambda, Index nele_hess, Index* iRow,
                       Index* jCol, Number* values)
{
  if (values == NULL) {
    // return the structure. This is a symmetric matrix, fill the lower left
    // triangle only.

    // the Hessian for this problem is actually dense
    Index idx=0;
    for (Index row = 0; row < 4; row++) {
      for (Index col = 0; col <= row; col++) {
        iRow[idx] = row; 
        jCol[idx] = col;
        idx++;
      }
    }
    
    assert(idx == nele_hess);
  }
  else {
    // return the values. This is a symmetric matrix, fill the lower left
    // triangle only

    // fill the objective portion
    values[0] = obj_factor * (2*x[3]); // 0,0

    values[1] = obj_factor * (x[3]);   // 1,0
    values[2] = 0;                     // 1,1

    values[3] = obj_factor * (x[3]);   // 2,0
    values[4] = 0;                     // 2,1
    values[5] = 0;                     // 2,2

    values[6] = obj_factor * (2*x[0] + x[1] + x[2]); // 3,0
    values[7] = obj_factor * (x[0]);                 // 3,1
    values[8] = obj_factor * (x[0]);                 // 3,2
    values[9] = 0;                                   // 3,3


    // add the portion for the first constraint
    values[1] += lambda[0] * (x[2] * x[3]); // 1,0
    
    values[3] += lambda[0] * (x[1] * x[3]); // 2,0
    values[4] += lambda[0] * (x[0] * x[3]); // 2,1

    values[6] += lambda[0] * (x[1] * x[2]); // 3,0
    values[7] += lambda[0] * (x[0] * x[2]); // 3,1
    values[8] += lambda[0] * (x[0] * x[1]); // 3,2

    // add the portion for the second constraint
    values[0] += lambda[1] * 2; // 0,0

    values[2] += lambda[1] * 2; // 1,1

    values[5] += lambda[1] * 2; // 2,2

    values[9] += lambda[1] * 2; // 3,3
  }

  return true;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

\paragraph{Method \texttt{finalize\_solution}} with prototype

\begin{verbatim}
virtual void finalize_solution(SolverReturn status, Index n,
                               const Number* x, const Number* z_L,
                               const Number* z_U, Index m, const Number* g,
                               const Number* lambda, Number obj_value,
                               const IpoptData* ip_data,
                               IpoptCalculatedQuantities* ip_cq)
\end{verbatim}
This is the only method that is not mentioned in Figure
\ref{fig.required_info}. This method is called by \Ipopt\ after the
algorithm has finished (successfully or even with most errors).
\begin{itemize}
\item {\tt status}: (in), gives the status of the algorithm as
  specified in {\tt IpAlgTypes.hpp},
  \begin{itemize}
  \item {\tt SUCCESS}: Algorithm terminated successfully at a locally
    optimal point, satisfying the convergence tolerances (can be
    specified by options).
  \item {\tt MAXITER\_EXCEEDED}: Maximum number of iterations exceeded
    (can be specified by an option).
  \item {\tt STOP\_AT\_TINY\_STEP}: Algorithm proceeds with very
    little progress.
  \item {\tt STOP\_AT\_ACCEPTABLE\_POINT}: Algorithm stopped at a
    point that was converged, not to ``desired'' tolerances, but to
    ``acceptable'' tolerances (see the {\tt acceptable-...} options).
  \item {\tt LOCAL\_INFEASIBILITY}: Algorithm converged to a point of
    local infeasibility. Problem may be infeasible.
  \item {\tt USER\_REQUESTED\_STOP}: The user call-back function {\tt
      intermediate\_callback} (see Section~\ref{sec:add_meth})
    returned {\tt false}, i.e., the user code requested a premature
    termination of the optimization.
  \item {\tt DIVERGING\_ITERATES}: It seems that the iterates diverge.
  \item {\tt RESTORATION\_FAILURE}: Restoration phase failed,
    algorithm doesn't know how to proceed.
  \item {\tt ERROR\_IN\_STEP\_COMPUTATION}: An unrecoverable error
    occurred while \Ipopt\ tried to compute the search direction.
  \item {\tt INVALID\_NUMBER\_DETECTED}:  Algorithm received an
    invalid number (such as {\tt NaN} or {\tt Inf}) from the NLP; see
    also option {\tt check\_derivatives\_for\_naninf}.
  \item {\tt
      INTERNAL\_ERROR}: An unknown internal error occurred.  Please
    contact the \Ipopt\ authors through the mailing list.
  \end{itemize}
\item {\tt n}: (in), the number of variables in the problem (dimension
  of $x$).
\item {\tt x}: (in), the final values for the primal variables, $x_*$.
\item {\tt z\_L}: (in), the final values for the lower bound
  multipliers, $z^L_*$.
\item {\tt z\_U}: (in), the final values for the upper bound
  multipliers, $z^U_*$.
\item {\tt m}: (in), the number of constraints in the problem
  (dimension of $g(x)$).
\item {\tt g}: (in), the final value of the constraint function
  values, $g(x_*)$.
\item {\tt lambda}: (in), the final values of the constraint
  multipliers, $\lambda_*$.
\item {\tt obj\_value}: (in), the final value of the objective,
  $f(x_*)$.
\item {\tt ip\_data} and {\tt ip\_cq} are provided for expert users.
\end{itemize}

This method gives you the return status of the algorithm
(SolverReturn), and the values of the variables, 
the objective and constraint function values when the algorithm exited.

In our example, we will print the values of some of the variables to 
the screen.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
void HS071_NLP::finalize_solution(SolverReturn status,
                                  Index n, const Number* x, const Number* z_L,
                                  const Number* z_U, Index m, const Number* g,
                                  const Number* lambda, Number obj_value)
{
  // here is where we would store the solution to variables, or write to a file, etc
  // so we could use the solution. 

  // For this example, we write the solution to the console
  printf("\n\nSolution of the primal variables, x\n");
  for (Index i=0; i<n; i++) {
    printf("x[%d] = %e\n", i, x[i]); 
  }

  printf("\n\nSolution of the bound multipliers, z_L and z_U\n");
  for (Index i=0; i<n; i++) {
    printf("z_L[%d] = %e\n", i, z_L[i]); 
  }
  for (Index i=0; i<n; i++) {
    printf("z_U[%d] = %e\n", i, z_U[i]); 
  }

  printf("\n\nObjective value\n");
  printf("f(x*) = %e\n", obj_value); 
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

This is all that is required for our {\tt HS071\_NLP} class and 
the coding of the problem representation.
 
\subsubsection{Coding the Executable (\texttt{main})}
Now that we have a problem representation, the {\tt HS071\_NLP} class,
we need to code the main function that will call \Ipopt\ and ask \Ipopt\
to find a solution.

Here, we must create an instance of our problem ({\tt HS071\_NLP}),
create an instance of the \Ipopt\ solver (\texttt{IpoptApplication}),
initialize it, and ask the solver to find a solution. We always use
the \texttt{SmartPtr} template class instead of raw C++ pointers when
creating and passing \Ipopt\ objects. To find out more information
about smart pointers and the {\tt SmartPtr} implementation used in
\Ipopt, see Appendix \ref{app.smart_ptr}.

Create the file {\tt MyExample.cpp} in the MyExample directory.
Include {\tt HS071\_NLP.hpp} and {\tt IpIpoptApplication.hpp}, tell
the compiler to use the {\tt Ipopt} namespace, and implement the {\tt
  main} function.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
#include "IpIpoptApplication.hpp"
#include "hs071_nlp.hpp"

using namespace Ipopt;

int main(int argv, char* argc[])
{
  // Create a new instance of your nlp 
  //  (use a SmartPtr, not raw)
  SmartPtr<TNLP> mynlp = new HS071_NLP();

  // Create a new instance of IpoptApplication
  //  (use a SmartPtr, not raw)
  // We are using the factory, since this allows us to compile this
  // example with an Ipopt Windows DLL
  SmartPtr<IpoptApplication> app = IpoptApplicationFactory();

  // Change some options
  // Note: The following choices are only examples, they might not be
  //       suitable for your optimization problem.
  app->Options()->SetNumericValue("tol", 1e-9);
  app->Options()->SetStringValue("mu_strategy", "adaptive");
  app->Options()->SetStringValue("output_file", "ipopt.out");

  // Intialize the IpoptApplication and process the options
  ApplicationReturnStatus status;
  status = app->Initialize();
  if (status != Solve_Succeeded) {
    printf("\n\n*** Error during initialization!\n");
    return (int) status;
  }

  // Ask Ipopt to solve the problem
  status = app->OptimizeTNLP(mynlp);

  if (status == Solve_Succeeded) {
    printf("\n\n*** The problem solved!\n");
  }
  else {
    printf("\n\n*** The problem FAILED!\n");
  }

  // As the SmartPtrs go out of scope, the reference count
  // will be decremented and the objects will automatically 
  // be deleted.

  return (int) status;
}
\end{verbatim} 
\end{footnotesize}

The first line of code in {\tt main} creates an instance of {\tt
  HS071\_NLP}. We then create an instance of the \Ipopt\ solver, {\tt
  IpoptApplication}. You could use \texttt{new} to create a new
application object, but if you want to make sure that your code would
also work with a Windows DLL, you need to use the factory, as done in
the example above. The call to {\tt app->Initialize(...)} will
initialize that object, process this options (particularly the output
related options), and the call to {\tt app->OptimizeTNLP(...)}  will
run \Ipopt\ and try to solve the problem. By default, \Ipopt\ will
write to its progress to the console, and return the {\tt
  SolverReturn} status.

\subsubsection{Compiling and Testing the Example}
Our next task is to compile and test the code. If you are familiar
with the compiler and linker used on your system, you can build the
code, telling the linker about the \Ipopt\ library {\tt libipopt.so}
(or {\tt libipopt.a}), as well as other necessary libraries, as listed
in the {\tt ipopt\_addlibs\_cpp.txt} and {\tt ipopt\_addlibs\_f.txt}
files.  If you are using Linux/UNIX, then a sample makefile exists
already that was created by configure.  Copy {\tt
  Ipopt/examples/hs071\_cpp/Makefile} into your {\tt MyExample}
directory.  This makefile was created for the {\tt hs071\_cpp} code,
but it can be easily modified for your example problem. Edit the file,
making the following changes,

\begin{itemize}
\item change the {\tt EXE} variable \\
{\tt EXE = my\_example}
\item change the {\tt OBJS} variable \\
{\tt OBJS = HS071\_NLP.o MyExample.o}
\end{itemize}
and the problem should compile easily with, \\
{\tt \$ make} \\
Now run the executable,\\ 
{\tt \$ ./my\_example} \\
and you should see output resembling the following,

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
******************************************************************************
This program contains Ipopt, a library for large-scale nonlinear optimization.
 Ipopt is released as open source code under the Eclipse Public License (EPL).
         For more information visit http://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt
******************************************************************************

Number of nonzeros in equality constraint Jacobian...:        4
Number of nonzeros in inequality constraint Jacobian.:        4
Number of nonzeros in Lagrangian Hessian.............:       10

Total number of variables............................:        4
                     variables with only lower bounds:        0
                variables with lower and upper bounds:        4
                     variables with only upper bounds:        0
Total number of equality constraints.................:        1
Total number of inequality constraints...............:        1
        inequality constraints with only lower bounds:        1
   inequality constraints with lower and upper bounds:        0
        inequality constraints with only upper bounds:        0

iter    objective    inf_pr   inf_du lg(mu)  ||d||  lg(rg) alpha_du alpha_pr  ls
   0  1.6109693e+01 1.12e+01 5.28e-01   0.0 0.00e+00    -  0.00e+00 0.00e+00   0
   1  1.7410406e+01 8.38e-01 2.25e+01  -0.3 7.97e-01    -  3.19e-01 1.00e+00f  1
   2  1.8001613e+01 1.06e-02 4.96e+00  -0.3 5.60e-02   2.0 9.97e-01 1.00e+00h  1
   3  1.7199482e+01 9.04e-02 4.24e-01  -1.0 9.91e-01    -  9.98e-01 1.00e+00f  1
   4  1.6940955e+01 2.09e-01 4.58e-02  -1.4 2.88e-01    -  9.66e-01 1.00e+00h  1
   5  1.7003411e+01 2.29e-02 8.42e-03  -2.9 7.03e-02    -  9.68e-01 1.00e+00h  1
   6  1.7013974e+01 2.59e-04 8.65e-05  -4.5 6.22e-03    -  1.00e+00 1.00e+00h  1
   7  1.7014017e+01 2.26e-07 5.71e-08  -8.0 1.43e-04    -  1.00e-00 1.00e+00h  1
   8  1.7014017e+01 4.62e-14 9.09e-14  -8.0 6.95e-08    -  1.00e+00 1.00e+00h  1

Number of Iterations....: 8

Number of objective function evaluations             = 9
Number of objective gradient evaluations             = 9
Number of equality constraint evaluations            = 9
Number of inequality constraint evaluations          = 9
Number of equality constraint Jacobian evaluations   = 9
Number of inequality constraint Jacobian evaluations = 9
Number of Lagrangian Hessian evaluations             = 8
Total CPU secs in IPOPT (w/o function evaluations)   =      0.220
Total CPU secs in NLP function evaluations           =      0.000

EXIT: Optimal Solution Found.


Solution of the primal variables, x
x[0] = 1.000000e+00
x[1] = 4.743000e+00
x[2] = 3.821150e+00
x[3] = 1.379408e+00


Solution of the bound multipliers, z_L and z_U
z_L[0] = 1.087871e+00
z_L[1] = 2.428776e-09
z_L[2] = 3.222413e-09
z_L[3] = 2.396076e-08
z_U[0] = 2.272727e-09
z_U[1] = 3.537314e-08
z_U[2] = 7.711676e-09
z_U[3] = 2.510890e-09


Objective value
f(x*) = 1.701402e+01


*** The problem solved!
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

This completes the basic C++ tutorial, but see Section
\ref{sec:output} which explains the standard console output of \Ipopt
and Section \ref{sec:options} for information about the use of options
to customize the behavior of \Ipopt.

The {\tt Ipopt/examples/ScalableProblems} directory contains other NLP
problems coded in C++.

\subsubsection{Additional methods in {\tt TNLP}}\label{sec:add_meth}

The following methods are available to additional features that are
not explained in the example.  Default implementations for those
methods are provided, so that a user can safely ignore them, unless
she wants to make use of those features.  These features is not yet(?)
available from C or Fortran.

\paragraph{Method \texttt{intermediate\_callback}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool intermediate_callback(AlgorithmMode mode,
                                   Index iter, Number obj_value,
                                   Number inf_pr, Number inf_du,
                                   Number mu, Number d_norm,
                                   Number regularization_size,
                                   Number alpha_du, Number alpha_pr,
                                   Index ls_trials,
                                   const IpoptData* ip_data,
                                   IpoptCalculatedQuantities* ip_cq)
\end{verbatim}
It is not required to implement (overload) this method.  This method
is called once per iteration (during the convergence check), and can
be used to obtain information about the optimization status while
\Ipopt\ solves the problem, and also to requires a premature
termination.

The information provided by the entities in the argument list
corresponds to what \Ipopt\ prints in the iteration summary (see also
Section~\ref{sec:output}).  Further information can be obtained from
the {\tt ip\_data} and {\tt ip\_cq} objects (for experts only :).

You you let this method return {\tt false}, \Ipopt\ will terminate
with the {\tt User\_Requested\_Stop} status.  If you do not implement
this method (as we do in this example), the default implementation
always returns {\tt true}.

\paragraph{Method \texttt{get\_scaling\_parameters}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool get_scaling_parameters(Number& obj_scaling,
                                    bool& use_x_scaling, Index n,
                                    Number* x_scaling,
                                    bool& use_g_scaling, Index m,
                                    Number* g_scaling)
\end{verbatim}

This method is called if the {\tt nlp\_scaling\_method} is chosen as
{\tt user-scaling}.  Then the user is to provide scaling factors for
the objective function, as well as for the optimization variables
and/or constraints.  The return value should be true, unless an error
occurred, and the program is to be aborted.

The value returned in {\tt obj\_scaling} determines, how \Ipopt\
should internally scale the objective function.  For example, if this
number is chosen to be 10, then \Ipopt\ solves internally an
optimization problem that has 10 times the value of the original
objective function provided by the {\tt TNLP}.  In particular, if this
value is negative, then \Ipopt\ will maximize the objective function
instead of minimizing it.

The scaling factors for the variables can be returned in {\tt
  x\_scaling}, which has the same length as {\tt x} in the other {\tt
  TNLP} methods, and the factors are ordered like {\tt x}.  You need
to set {\tt use\_x\_scaling} to {\tt true}, if you want \Ipopt\ so scale
the variables.  If it is {\tt false}, no internal scaling of the
variables is done.  Similarly, the scaling factors for the constraints
can be returned in {\tt g\_scaling}, and this scaling is activated by
setting {\tt use\_g\_scaling} to {\tt true}.

As a guideline, we suggest to scale the optimization problem (either
directly in the original formulation, or after using scaling factors)
so that all sensitivities, i.e., all non-zero first partial
derivatives, are typically of the order $0.1-10$.

\paragraph{Method \texttt{get\_number\_of\_nonlinear\_variables}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual Index get_number_of_nonlinear_variables()
\end{verbatim}

This method is only important if the limited-memory quasi-Newton
options is used, see Section~\ref{sec:quasiNewton}.  It is to be used
to return the number of variables that appear nonlinearly in the
objective function or in at least one constraint function.  If a
negative number is returned, \Ipopt\ assumes that all variables are
nonlinear.

If the user doesn't overload this method in her implementation of the
class derived from {\tt TNLP}, the default implementation returns -1,
i.e., then all variables are assumed to be nonlinear.

\paragraph{Method \texttt{get\_list\_of\_nonlinear\_variables}} with prototype
\begin{verbatim}
virtual bool get_list_of_nonlinear_variables(Index num_nonlin_vars,
                                             Index* pos_nonlin_vars)
\end{verbatim}

This method is called by \Ipopt\ only if the limited-memory
quasi-Newton options is used, and if the {\tt
  get\_number\_of\_nonlinear\_variables} method returns a positive
number; this number is then identical with {\tt num\_nonlin\_vars} and
the length of the array {\tt pos\_nonlin\_vars}.  In this call, you
need to list the indices of all nonlinear variables in {\tt
  pos\_nonlin\_vars}, where the numbering starts with 0 order 1,
depending on the numbering style determined in {\tt get\_nlp\_info}.


\subsection{The C Interface}\label{sec.cinterface}
The C interface for \Ipopt\ is declared in the header file {\tt
  IpStdCInterface.h}, which is found in\\
\texttt{\$IPOPTDIR/include/coin} (or in
\texttt{\$PREFIX/include/coin} if the switch
\verb|--prefix=$PREFIX| was used for {\tt configure}); while
reading this section, it will be helpful to have a look at this file.

In order to solve an optimization problem with the C interface, one
has to create an {\tt IpoptProblem}\footnote{{\tt IpoptProblem} is a
  pointer to a C structure; you should not access this structure
  directly, only through the functions provided in the C interface.}
with the function {\tt CreateIpoptProblem}, which later has to be
passed to the {\tt IpoptSolve} function.

The {\tt IpoptProblem} created by {\tt CreateIpoptProblem} contains
the problem dimensions, the variable and constraint bounds, and the
function pointers for callbacks that will be used to evaluate the NLP
problem functions and their derivatives (see also the discussion of
the C++ methods {\tt get\_nlp\_info} and {\tt get\_bounds\_info} in
Section~\ref{sec.cpp_problem} for information about the arguments of
{\tt CreateIpoptProblem}).

The prototypes for the callback functions, {\tt Eval\_F\_CB}, {\tt
  Eval\_Grad\_F\_CB}, etc., are defined in the header file {\tt
  IpStdCInterface.h}.  Their arguments correspond one-to-one to the
arguments for the C++ methods discussed in
Section~\ref{sec.cpp_problem}; for example, for the meaning of $\tt
n$, $\tt x$, $\tt new\_x$, $\tt obj\_value$ in the declaration of {\tt
  Eval\_F\_CB} see the discussion of ``{\tt eval\_f}''.  The callback
functions should return {\tt TRUE}, unless there was a problem doing
the requested function/derivative evaluation at the given point {\tt
  x} (then it should return {\tt FALSE}).

Note the additional argument of type {\tt UserDataPtr} in the callback
functions.  This pointer argument is available for you to communicate
information between the main program that calls {\tt IpoptSolve} and
any of the callback functions.  This pointer is simply passed
unmodified by \Ipopt\ among those functions.  For example, you can
use this to pass constants that define the optimization problem and
are computed before the optimization in the main C program to the
callback functions.

After an {\tt IpoptProblem} has been created, you can set algorithmic
options for \Ipopt\ (see Section~\ref{sec:options}) using the {\tt
  AddIpopt...Option} functions.  Finally, the \Ipopt\ algorithm is
called with {\tt IpoptSolve}, giving \Ipopt\ the {\tt IpoptProblem},
the starting point, and arrays to store the solution values (primal
and dual variables), if desired.  Finally, after everything is done,
you should call {\tt FreeIpoptProblem} to release internal memory that
is still allocated inside \Ipopt.

In the remainder of this section we discuss how the example problem
(\ref{eq:ex_obj})--(\ref{eq:ex_bounds}) can be solved using the C
interface.  A completed version of this example can be found in {\tt
  Ipopt/examples/hs071\_c}.

% We first create the necessary callback
% functions for evaluating the NLP. As just discussed, the \Ipopt\ C
% interface required callbacks to evaluate the objective value,
% constraints, gradient of the objective, Jacobian of the constraints,
% and the Hessian of the Lagrangian.  These callbacks are implemented
% using function pointers.  Have a look at the C++ implementation for
% {\tt eval\_f}, {\tt eval\_g}, {\tt eval\_grad\_f}, {\tt eval\_jac\_g},
% and {\tt eval\_h} in Section \ref{sec.cpp_problem}. The C
% implementations have somewhat different prototypes, but are
% implemented almost identically to the C++ code.

\vspace{\baselineskip}

In order to implement the example problem on your own, create a new
directory {\tt MyCExample} and create a new file, {\tt
  hs071\_c.c}.  Here, include the interface header file {\tt
  IpStdCInterface.h}, along with other necessary header files, such as
{\tt stdlib.h} and {\tt assert.h}.  Add the prototypes and
implementations for the five callback functions.  Have a look at the
C++ implementation for {\tt eval\_f}, {\tt eval\_g}, {\tt
  eval\_grad\_f}, {\tt eval\_jac\_g}, and {\tt eval\_h} in Section
\ref{sec.cpp_problem}. The C implementations have somewhat different
prototypes, but are implemented almost identically to the C++ code.
See the completed example in {\tt Ipopt/examples/hs071\_c/hs071\_c.c} if you
are not sure how to do this.

We now need to implement the {\tt main} function, create the {\tt
  IpoptProblem}, set options, and call {\tt IpoptSolve}. The {\tt
  CreateIpoptProblem} function requires the problem dimensions, the
variable and constraint bounds, and the function pointers to the
callback routines. The {\tt IpoptSolve} function requires the {\tt
  IpoptProblem}, the starting point, and allocated arrays for the
solution.  The {\tt main} function from the example is shown next, and
discussed below.

%in Figure~\ref{fig:cexample-main}.
%\begin{figure}
%  \centering
\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
int main()
{
  Index n=-1;                          /* number of variables */
  Index m=-1;                          /* number of constraints */
  Number* x_L = NULL;                  /* lower bounds on x */
  Number* x_U = NULL;                  /* upper bounds on x */
  Number* g_L = NULL;                  /* lower bounds on g */
  Number* g_U = NULL;                  /* upper bounds on g */
  IpoptProblem nlp = NULL;             /* IpoptProblem */
  enum ApplicationReturnStatus status; /* Solve return code */
  Number* x = NULL;                    /* starting point and solution vector */
  Number* mult_x_L = NULL;             /* lower bound multipliers 
					  at the solution */
  Number* mult_x_U = NULL;             /* upper bound multipliers 
					  at the solution */
  Number obj;                          /* objective value */
  Index i;                             /* generic counter */
  
  /* set the number of variables and allocate space for the bounds */
  n=4;
  x_L = (Number*)malloc(sizeof(Number)*n);
  x_U = (Number*)malloc(sizeof(Number)*n);
  /* set the values for the variable bounds */
  for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
    x_L[i] = 1.0;
    x_U[i] = 5.0;
  }

  /* set the number of constraints and allocate space for the bounds */
  m=2;
  g_L = (Number*)malloc(sizeof(Number)*m);
  g_U = (Number*)malloc(sizeof(Number)*m);
  /* set the values of the constraint bounds */
  g_L[0] = 25; g_U[0] = 2e19;
  g_L[1] = 40; g_U[1] = 40;

  /* create the IpoptProblem */
  nlp = CreateIpoptProblem(n, x_L, x_U, m, g_L, g_U, 8, 10, 0, 
			   &eval_f, &eval_g, &eval_grad_f, 
			   &eval_jac_g, &eval_h);
  
  /* We can free the memory now - the values for the bounds have been
     copied internally in CreateIpoptProblem */
  free(x_L);
  free(x_U);
  free(g_L);
  free(g_U);

  /* set some options */
  AddIpoptNumOption(nlp, "tol", 1e-9);
  AddIpoptStrOption(nlp, "mu_strategy", "adaptive");

  /* allocate space for the initial point and set the values */
  x = (Number*)malloc(sizeof(Number)*n);
  x[0] = 1.0;
  x[1] = 5.0;
  x[2] = 5.0;
  x[3] = 1.0;

  /* allocate space to store the bound multipliers at the solution */
  mult_x_L = (Number*)malloc(sizeof(Number)*n);
  mult_x_U = (Number*)malloc(sizeof(Number)*n);

  /* solve the problem */
  status = IpoptSolve(nlp, x, NULL, &obj, NULL, mult_x_L, mult_x_U, NULL);

  if (status == Solve_Succeeded) {
    printf("\n\nSolution of the primal variables, x\n");
    for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
      printf("x[%d] = %e\n", i, x[i]); 
    }

    printf("\n\nSolution of the bound multipliers, z_L and z_U\n");
    for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
      printf("z_L[%d] = %e\n", i, mult_x_L[i]); 
    }
    for (i=0; i<n; i++) {
      printf("z_U[%d] = %e\n", i, mult_x_U[i]); 
    }

    printf("\n\nObjective value\n");
    printf("f(x*) = %e\n", obj); 
  }
 
  /* free allocated memory */
  FreeIpoptProblem(nlp);
  free(x);
  free(mult_x_L);
  free(mult_x_U);

  return 0;
}
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}
%  \caption{{\tt main} function for C example}
%  \label{fig:cexample-main}
%\end{figure}

Here, we declare all the necessary variables and set the dimensions of
the problem.  The problem has 4 variables, so we set {\tt n} and
allocate space for the variable bounds (don't forget to call {\tt
  free} for each of your {\tt malloc} calls before the end of the
program). We then set the values for the variable bounds.

The problem has 2 constraints, so we set {\tt m} and allocate space
for the constraint bounds. The first constraint has a lower bound of
$25$ and no upper bound.  Here we set the upper bound to
\texttt{2e19}. \Ipopt\ interprets any number greater than or equal to
\texttt{nlp\_upper\_bound\_inf} as infinity. The default value of
\texttt{nlp\_lower\_bound\_inf} and \texttt{nlp\_upper\_bound\_inf} is
\texttt{-1e19} and \texttt{1e19}, respectively, and can be changed
through \Ipopt\ options.  The second constraint is an equality with
right hand side 40, so we set both the upper and the lower bound to
40.

We next create an instance of the {\tt IpoptProblem} by calling {\tt
CreateIpoptProblem}, giving it the problem dimensions and the variable
and constraint bounds. The arguments {\tt nele\_jac} and {\tt
nele\_hess} are the number of elements in Jacobian and the Hessian,
respectively. See Appendix~\ref{app.triplet} for a description of the
sparse matrix format. The {\tt index\_style} argument specifies whether
we want to use C style indexing for the row and column indices of the
matrices or Fortran style indexing. Here, we set it to {\tt 0} to
indicate C style.  We also include the references to each of our
callback functions. \Ipopt\ uses these function pointers to ask for
evaluation of the NLP when required.

After freeing the bound arrays that are no longer required, the next
two lines illustrate how you can change the value of options through
the interface.  \Ipopt\ options can also be changed by creating a {\tt
ipopt.opt} file (see Section~\ref{sec:options}). We next allocate
space for the initial point and set the values as given in the problem
definition.

The call to {\tt IpoptSolve} can provide us with information about the
solution, but most of this is optional. Here, we want values for the
bound multipliers at the solution and we allocate space for these.

We can now make the call to {\tt IpoptSolve} and find the solution of
the problem. We pass in the {\tt IpoptProblem}, the starting point
{\tt x} (\Ipopt\ will use this array to return the solution or final
point as well).  The next 5 arguments are pointers so \Ipopt\ can fill
in values at the solution.  If these pointers are set to {\tt NULL},
\Ipopt\ will ignore that entry.  For example, here, we do not want the
constraint function values at the solution or the constraint
multipliers, so we set those entries to {\tt NULL}. We do want the
value of the objective, and the multipliers for the variable bounds.
The last argument is a {\tt void*} for user data. Any pointer you give
here will also be passed to you in the callback functions.

The return code is an {\tt ApplicationReturnStatus} enumeration, see
the header file {\tt ReturnCodes\_inc.h} which is installed along {\tt
  IpStdCInterface.h} in the \Ipopt\ include directory.

After the optimizer terminates, we check the status and print the
solution if successful. Finally, we free the {\tt IpoptProblem} and
the remaining memory, and return from {\tt main}.

\subsection{The Fortran Interface}

The Fortran interface is essentially a wrapper of the C interface
discussed in Section~\ref{sec.cinterface}.  The way to hook up \Ipopt\
in a Fortran program is very similar to how it is done for the C
interface, and the functions of the Fortran interface correspond
one-to-one to the those of the C and C++ interface, including their
arguments.  You can find an implementation of the example problem
(\ref{eq:ex_obj})--(\ref{eq:ex_bounds}) in {\tt
  \$IPOPTDIR/Ipopt/examples/hs071\_f}.

The only special things to consider are:
\begin{itemize}
\item The return value of the function {\tt IPCREATE} is of an {\tt
    INTEGER} type that must be large enough to capture a pointer
  on the particular machine.  This means, that you have to declare
  the ``handle'' for the IpoptProblem as {\tt INTEGER*8} if your
  program is compiled in 64-bit mode.  All other {\tt INTEGER}-type
  variables must be of the regular type.
\item For the call of {\tt IPSOLVE} (which is the function that is to
  be called to run \Ipopt), all arrays, including those for the dual
  variables, must be given (in contrast to the C interface).  The
  return value {\tt IERR} of this function indicates the outcome of
  the optimization (see the include file {\tt IpReturnCodes.inc} in
  the \Ipopt\ include directory).
\item The return {\tt IERR} value of the remaining functions has to be
  set to zero, unless there was a problem during execution of the
  function call.
\item The callback functions ({\tt EV\_*} in the example) include the
  arguments {\tt IDAT} and {\tt DAT}, which are {\tt INTEGER} and {\tt
    DOUBLE PRECISION} arrays that are passed unmodified between the
  main program calling {\tt IPSOLVE} and the evaluation subroutines
  {\tt EV\_*} (similarly to {\tt UserDataPtr} arguments in the C
  interface).  These arrays can be used to pass ``private'' data
  between the main program and the user-provided Fortran subroutines.

  The last argument of the {\tt EV\_*} subroutines, {\tt IERR}, is to
  be set to 0 by the user on return, unless there was a problem
  during the evaluation of the optimization problem
  function/derivative for the given point {\tt X} (then it should
  return a non-zero value).
\end{itemize}

\section{Special Features}
\subsection{Derivative Checker}\label{sec:deriv-checker}
When writing code for the evaluation of derivatives it is very easy to
make mistakes (much easier than writing it correctly the first time
:).  As a convenient feature, \Ipopt\ provides the option to run a
simple derivative checker, based on finite differences, before the
optimization is started.

To use the derivative checker, you need to use the option {\tt
  derivative\_test}.  By default, this option is set to {\tt none},
i.e., no finite difference test is performed,  It is set to {\tt
  first-order}, then the first derivatives of the objective function
and the constraints are verified, and for the setting {\tt
  second-order}, the second derivatives are tested as well.

The verification is done by a simple finite differences approximation,
where each component of the user-provided starting point is perturbed
one of the other.  The relative size of the perturbation is determined
by the option {\tt derivative\_test\_perturbation}.  The default value
($10^{-8}$, about the square root of the machine precision) is
probably fine in most cases, but if you believe that you see wrong
warnings, you might want to play with this parameter.  When the test is
performed, \Ipopt\ prints out a line for every partial derivative, for
which the user-provided derivative value deviates too much from the
finite difference approximation.  The relative tolerance for deciding
when a warning should be issued, is determined by the option {\tt
  derivative\_test\_tol}.  If you want to see the user-provided and
estimated derivative values with the relative deviation for each
single partial derivative, you can switch the {\tt
  derivative\_test\_print\_all} option to {\tt yes}.

A typical output is:

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
Starting derivative checker.

* grad_f[          2] = -6.5159999999999991e+02    ~ -6.5559997134793468e+02  [ 6.101e-03]
* jac_g [    4,    4] =  0.0000000000000000e+00    ~  2.2160643690464592e-02  [ 2.216e-02]
* jac_g [    4,    5] =  1.3798494268463347e+01 v  ~  1.3776333629422766e+01  [ 1.609e-03]
* jac_g [    6,    7] =  1.4776333636790881e+01 v  ~  1.3776333629422766e+01  [ 7.259e-02]

Derivative checker detected 4 error(s).
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

The start (``\verb|*|'') in the first column indicates that this line
corresponds to some partial derivative for which the error tolerance
was exceeded.  Next, we see which partial derivative is concerned in
this output line.  For example, in the first line, it is the second
component of the objective function gradient (or the third, if the
{\tt C\_STYLE} numbering is used, i.e., when counting of indices
starts with 0 instead of 1).  The first floating point number is the
value given by the user code, and the second number (after
``\verb|~|'') is the finite differences estimation.  Finally, the
number in square brackets is the relative difference between those two
numbers.

For constraints, the first index after {\tt jac\_g} is the number of
the constraint, and the second one corresponds to the variable number
(again, the choice of the numbering style matters).

Since also the sparsity structure of the constraint Jacobian has to be
provided by the user, it can be faulty as well.  For this, the ``{\tt
  v}'' after a user-provided derivative value indicates that this
component of the Jacobian is part of the user provided sparsity
structure.  If there is no ``{\tt v}'', it means that the user did not
include this partial derivative in the list of non-zero elements.  In
the above output, the partial derivative ``{\tt jac\_g[4,4]}'' is
non-zero (based on the finite difference approximation), but it is not
included in the list of non-zero elements (missing ``{\tt v}''), so
that the user probably made a mistake in the sparsity structure.  The
other two Jacobian entries are provided in the non-zero structure but
their values seem to be off.

For second derivatives, the output lines look like:

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{verbatim}
*             obj_hess[    1,    1] =  1.8810000000000000e+03 v  ~  1.8820000036612328e+03  [ 5.314e-04]
*     3-th constr_hess[    2,    4] =  1.0000000000000000e+00 v  ~  0.0000000000000000e+00  [ 1.000e+00]
\end{verbatim}
\end{footnotesize}

There, the first line shows the deviation of the user-provided partial
second derivative in the Hessian for the objective function, and the
second line show an error in a partial derivative for the Hessian of
the third constraint (again, the numbering style matters).

Since the second derivatives are approximates by finite differences of
the first derivatives, you should first correct errors for the first
derivatives.  Also, since the finite difference approximations are
quite expensive, you should try to debug a small instance of your
problem if you can.  

Another useful option is \texttt{derivative\_test\_first\_index} which
allows your to start the derivative test with variables with a larger
index.
%
Finally, it is of course always a good idea to run your code through
some memory checker, such as {\tt valgrind} on Linux.

\subsection{Quasi-Newton Approximation of Second Derivatives}
\label{sec:quasiNewton}

\Ipopt\ has an option to approximate the Hessian of the Lagrangian by
a limited-memory quasi-Newton method (L-BFGS).  You can use this
feature using the {\tt hessian\_approximation=limited-memory} option.  In this case, it is not necessary to
implement the Hessian computation method {\tt eval\_h} in {\tt TNLP}.
If you are using the C or Fortran interface, you still need to
implement these functions, but they should return {\tt false} or {\tt
  IERR=1}, respectively, and don't need to do anything else.

In general, when second derivatives can be computed with reasonable
computational effort, it is usually a good idea to use them, since
then \Ipopt\ normally converges in fewer iterations and is more
robust.  An exception here might be the case, where your optimization
problem has a dense Hessian or a large percentage of non-zero entries
in the Hessian, and then using the quasi-Newton approximation might be
better, even if it the number of iterations increases, since the
computation time per iteration might be significantly higher due to
the very large number of non-zero elements in the linear systems that
\Ipopt\ solves in order to compute the search direction, if exact
second derivatives are used.

Since the Hessian of the Lagrangian is zero for all variables that
appear only linearly in the objective and constraint functions, the
Hessian approximation should only take place in the space of all
nonlinear variables.  By default, it is assumed that all variables are
nonlinear, but you can tell \Ipopt\ explicitly which variables are
nonlinear, using the {\tt get\_number\_of\_nonlinear\_variables} and
{\tt get\_list\_of\_nonlinear\_variables} method of the {\tt TNLP}
class, see Section~\ref{sec:add_meth}.  (Those methods have been
implemented for the AMPL interface, so you would automatically only
approximate the Hessian in the space of the nonlinear variables, if
you are using the quasi-Newton option for AMPL models.)  Currently,
those two methods are not available through the C or Fortran
interface.

\section{\Ipopt\ Options}\label{sec:options}
Ipopt has many (maybe too many) options that can be adjusted for the
algorithm.  Options are all identified by a string name, and their
values can be of one of three types: Number (real), Integer, or
String. Number options are used for things like tolerances, integer
options are used for things like maximum number of iterations, and
string options are used for setting algorithm details, like the NLP
scaling method. Options can be set through code, through the AMPL
interface if you are using AMPL, or by creating a {\tt ipopt.opt}
file in the directory you are executing \Ipopt.

The {\tt ipopt.opt} file is read line by line and each line should
contain the option name, followed by whitespace, and then the
value. Comments can be included with the {\tt \#} symbol. Don't forget
to ensure you have a newline at the end of the file. For example,
\begin{verbatim}
# This is a comment

# Turn off the NLP scaling
nlp_scaling_method none

# Change the initial barrier parameter
mu_init 1e-2

# Set the max number of iterations
max_iter 500
\end{verbatim}
is a valid {\tt ipopt.opt} file.

Options can also be set in code. Have a look at the examples to see
how this is done. 

A subset of \Ipopt\ options are available through AMPL. To set options
through AMPL, use the internal AMPL command {\tt options}.  For
example, \\
{\tt options ipopt\_options "nlp\_scaling\_method=none mu\_init=1e-2
  max\_iter=500"} \\
is a valid options command in AMPL. The most important options are
referenced in Appendix~\ref{app.options_ref}. To see which options are
available through AMPL, you can run the AMPL solver executable with
the ``{\tt -=}'' flag from the command prompt.  To specify other
options when using AMPL, you can always create {\tt ipopt.opt}.  Note,
the {\tt ipopt.opt} file is given preference when setting options.
This way, you can easily override any options set in a particular
executable or AMPL model by specifying new values in {\tt ipopt.opt}.

For a list of the most important valid options, see the Appendix
\ref{app.options_ref}. You can print the documentation for all \Ipopt\
options by using the option \\

{\tt print\_options\_documentation yes} \\

and running \Ipopt\ (like the AMPL solver executable, for
instance). This will output all of the options documentation to the
console.

\section{\Ipopt\ Output}\label{sec:output}
This section describes the standard \Ipopt\ console output with the
default setting for {\tt print\_level}. The output is designed to
provide a quick summary of each iteration as \Ipopt\ solves the problem.

Before \Ipopt\ starts to solve the problem, it displays the problem
statistics (number of nonzero-elements in the matrices, number of
variables, etc.). Note that if you have fixed variables (both upper
and lower bounds are equal), \Ipopt\ may remove these variables from
the problem internally and not include them in the problem statistics.

Following the problem statistics, \Ipopt\ will begin to solve the
problem and you will see output resembling the following,
\begin{verbatim}
iter    objective    inf_pr   inf_du lg(mu)  ||d||  lg(rg) alpha_du alpha_pr  ls
   0  1.6109693e+01 1.12e+01 5.28e-01   0.0 0.00e+00    -  0.00e+00 0.00e+00   0
   1  1.8029749e+01 9.90e-01 6.62e+01   0.1 2.05e+00    -  2.14e-01 1.00e+00f  1
   2  1.8719906e+01 1.25e-02 9.04e+00  -2.2 5.94e-02   2.0 8.04e-01 1.00e+00h  1
\end{verbatim}
and the columns of output are defined as,
\begin{description}
\item[{\tt iter}:] The current iteration count. This includes regular
  iterations and iterations while in restoration phase. If the
  algorithm is in the restoration phase, the letter {\tt r'} will be
  appended to the iteration number.
\item[{\tt objective}:] The unscaled objective value at the current
  point. During the restoration phase, this value remains the unscaled
  objective value for the original problem.
\item[{\tt inf\_pr}:] The scaled primal infeasibility at the current
  point. During the restoration phase, this value is the primal
  infeasibility of the original problem at the current point.
\item[{\tt inf\_du}:] The scaled dual infeasibility at the current
  point. During the restoration phase, this is the value of the dual
  infeasibility for the restoration phase problem.
\item[{\tt lg(mu)}:] $\log_{10}$ of the value of the barrier parameter mu.
\item[{\tt ||d||}:] The infinity norm (max) of the primal step (for
  the original variables $x$ and the internal slack variables $s$).
  During the restoration phase, this value includes the values of
  additional variables, $p$ and $n$ (see Eq.~(30) in
  \cite{WaecBieg06:mp}).
\item[{\tt lg(rg)}:] $\log_{10}$ of the value of the regularization
  term for the Hessian of the Lagrangian in the augmented system.
\item[{\tt alpha\_du}:] The stepsize for the dual variables.
\item[{\tt alpha\_pr}:] The stepsize for the primal variables.
\item[{\tt ls}:] The number of backtracking line search steps.
\end{description}

When the algorithm terminates, \Ipopt\ will output a message to the
screen based on the return status of the call to {\tt Optimize}. The following
is a list of the possible return codes, their corresponding output message
to the console, and a brief description.
\begin{description}
\item[{\tt Solve\_Succeeded}:] $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Optimal Solution Found.} \\
  This message indicates that \Ipopt\ found a (locally) optimal point
  within the desired tolerances.
\item[{\tt Solved\_To\_Acceptable\_Level}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Solved To Acceptable Level.} \\
  This indicates that the algorithm did not converge to the
  ``desired'' tolerances, but that it was able to obtain a point
  satisfying the ``acceptable'' tolerance level as specified by {\tt
    acceptable-*} options. This may happen if the desired tolerances
  are too small for the current problem.
\item[{\tt Feasible\_Point\_Found}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Feasible point for square problem found.} \\
  This message is printed if the problem is ``square'' (i.e., it has
  as many equality constraints as free variables) and \Ipopt\ found a
  feasible point.
\item[{\tt Infeasible\_Problem\_Detected}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Converged to a point of
    local infeasibility. Problem may be infeasible.} \\
  The restoration phase converged to a point that is a minimizer for
  the constraint violation (in the $\ell_1$-norm), but is not feasible
  for the original problem. This indicates that the problem may be
  infeasible (or at least that the algorithm is stuck at a locally
  infeasible point).  The returned point (the minimizer of the
  constraint violation) might help you to find which constraint is
  causing the problem.  If you believe that the NLP is feasible,
  it might help to start the optimization from a different point.
\item[{\tt Search\_Direction\_Becomes\_Too\_Small}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Search Direction is becoming Too Small.} \\
  This indicates that \Ipopt\ is calculating very small step sizes and
  making very little progress.  This could happen if the problem has
  been solved to the best numerical accuracy possible given the
  current scaling.
\item[{\tt Diverging\_Iterates}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Iterates divering; problem might be
    unbounded.} \\
  This message is printed if the max-norm of the iterates becomes
  larger than the value of the option {\tt diverging\_iterates\_tol}.
  This can happen if the problem is unbounded below and the iterates
  are diverging.
\item[{\tt User\_Requested\_Stop}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Stopping optimization at current point
    as requested by user.} \\
  This message is printed if the user call-back method {\tt
    intermediate\_callback} returned {\tt false} (see
  Section~\ref{sec:add_meth}).
\item[{\tt Maximum\_Iterations\_Exceeded}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Maximum Number of Iterations Exceeded.} \\
  This indicates that \Ipopt\ has exceeded the maximum number of
  iterations as specified by the option {\tt max\_iter}.
\item[{\tt Restoration\_Failed}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Restoration Failed!} \\
  This indicates that the restoration phase failed to find a feasible
  point that was acceptable to the filter line search for the original
  problem. This could happen if the problem is highly degenerate, does
  not satisfy the constraint qualification, or if your NLP code
  provides incorrect derivative information.
\item[{\tt Error\_In\_Step\_Computation}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Error in step computation (regularization becomes too large?)!} \\
  This messages is printed if \Ipopt\ is unable to compute a search
  direction, despite several attempts to modify the iteration matrix.
  Usually, the value of the regularization parameter then becomes too
  large.  One situation where this can happen is when values in the
  Hessian are invalid ({\tt NaN} or {\tt Inf}).  You can check whether this
  is true by using the {\tt check\_derivatives\_for\_naninf} option.
\item[{\tt Invalid\_Option}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: (details about the particular error
  will be output to the console) \\
  This indicates that there was some problem specifying the options.
  See the specific message for details.
\item[{\tt Not\_Enough\_Degrees\_Of\_Freedom}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Problem has too few degrees of freedom.} \\
  This indicates that your problem, as specified, has too few degrees
  of freedom. This can happen if you have too many equality
  constraints, or if you fix too many variables (\Ipopt\ removes fixed
  variables).
\item[{\tt Invalid\_Problem\_Definition}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: (no console message, this is a return code for the
  C and Fortran interfaces only.) \\
  This indicates that there was an exception of some sort when
  building the {\tt IpoptProblem} structure in the C or Fortran
  interface. Likely there is an error in your model or the {\tt main}
  routine.
\item[{\tt Unrecoverable\_Exception}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: (details about the particular error
  will be output to the console) \\
  This indicates that \Ipopt\ has thrown an exception that does not
  have an internal return code. See the specific message for details.
\item[{\tt NonIpopt\_Exception\_Thrown}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt Unknown Exception caught in Ipopt} \\
  An unknown exception was caught in \Ipopt. This exception could have
  originated from your model or any linked in third party code.
\item[{\tt Insufficient\_Memory}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: Not enough memory.} \\
  An error occurred while trying to allocate memory. The problem may
  be too large for your current memory and swap configuration.
\item[{\tt Internal\_Error}:]  $\;$ \\
  Console Message: {\tt EXIT: INTERNAL ERROR: Unknown SolverReturn
    value - Notify IPOPT Authors.} \\
  An unknown internal error has occurred. Please notify the authors of
  \Ipopt\ via the mailing list.

\end{description}

\appendix
\newpage
\section{Triplet Format for Sparse Matrices}\label{app.triplet}
\Ipopt\ was designed for optimizing large sparse nonlinear programs.
Because of problem sparsity, the required matrices (like the
constraints Jacobian or Lagrangian Hessian) are not stored as dense
matrices, but rather in a sparse matrix format. For the tutorials in
this document, we use the triplet format.  Consider the matrix
\begin{equation}
\label{eqn.ex_matrix}
\left[
\begin{array}{ccccccc}
1.1     & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0.5 \\
0       & 1.9   & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0.5 \\
0       & 0             & 2.6   & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0.5 \\
0       & 0             & 7.8   & 0.6   & 0             & 0             & 0    \\
0       & 0             & 0             & 1.5   & 2.7   & 0             & 0     \\
1.6     & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0.4   & 0             & 0     \\
0       & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0             & 0.9   & 1.7 \\
\end{array}
\right]
\end{equation}

A standard dense matrix representation would need to store $7 \cdot
7{=} 49$ floating point numbers, where many entries would be zero. In
triplet format, however, only the nonzero entries are stored. The
triplet format records the row number, the column number, and the
value of all nonzero entries in the matrix. For the matrix above, this
means storing $14$ integers for the rows, $14$ integers for the
columns, and $14$ floating point numbers for the values. While this
does not seem like a huge space savings over the $49$ floating point
numbers stored in the dense representation, for larger matrices, the
space savings are very dramatic\footnote{For an $n \times n$ matrix,
the dense representation grows with the the square of $n$, while the
sparse representation grows linearly in the number of nonzeros.}.

The option {\tt index\_style} in {\tt get\_nlp\_info} tells \Ipopt\ if
you prefer to use C style indexing (0-based, i.e., starting the
counting at 0) for the row and column indices or Fortran style
(1-based). Tables \ref{tab.fortran_triplet} and \ref{tab.c_triplet}
below show the triplet format for both indexing styles, using the
example matrix (\ref{eqn.ex_matrix}).

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{table}[ht]%[!h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{c c c}
row     		&       col     	&       value 			    \\
\hline
{\tt iRow[0] = 1}       &       {\tt jCol[0] = 1}       & {\tt values[0] = 1.1}     \\
{\tt iRow[1] = 1}       &       {\tt jCol[1] = 7}       & {\tt values[1] = 0.5}     \\
{\tt iRow[2] = 2}       &       {\tt jCol[2] = 2}       & {\tt values[2] = 1.9}     \\
{\tt iRow[3] = 2}       &       {\tt jCol[3] = 7}       & {\tt values[3] = 0.5}     \\
{\tt iRow[4] = 3}       &       {\tt jCol[4] = 3}       & {\tt values[4] = 2.6}     \\
{\tt iRow[5] = 3}       &       {\tt jCol[5] = 7}       & {\tt values[5] = 0.5}     \\
{\tt iRow[6] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[6] = 3}       & {\tt values[6] = 7.8}     \\
{\tt iRow[7] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[7] = 4}       & {\tt values[7] = 0.6}     \\
{\tt iRow[8] = 5}       &       {\tt jCol[8] = 4}       & {\tt values[8] = 1.5}     \\
{\tt iRow[9] = 5}       &       {\tt jCol[9] = 5}       & {\tt values[9] = 2.7}     \\
{\tt iRow[10] = 6}      &       {\tt jCol[10] = 1}      & {\tt values[10] = 1.6}     \\
{\tt iRow[11] = 6}      &       {\tt jCol[11] = 5}      & {\tt values[11] = 0.4}     \\
{\tt iRow[12] = 7}      &       {\tt jCol[12] = 6}      & {\tt values[12] = 0.9}     \\
{\tt iRow[13] = 7}      &       {\tt jCol[13] = 7}      & {\tt values[13] = 1.7}
\end{tabular}
\caption{Triplet Format of Matrix (\ref{eqn.ex_matrix}) 
with {\tt index\_style=FORTRAN\_STYLE}}
\label{tab.fortran_triplet}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\begin{table}[ht]%[!h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{c c c}
row     		&       col     	&       value 			    \\
\hline
{\tt iRow[0] = 0}       &       {\tt jCol[0] = 0}       & {\tt values[0] = 1.1}     \\
{\tt iRow[1] = 0}       &       {\tt jCol[1] = 6}       & {\tt values[1] = 0.5}     \\
{\tt iRow[2] = 1}       &       {\tt jCol[2] = 1}       & {\tt values[2] = 1.9}     \\
{\tt iRow[3] = 1}       &       {\tt jCol[3] = 6}       & {\tt values[3] = 0.5}     \\
{\tt iRow[4] = 2}       &       {\tt jCol[4] = 2}       & {\tt values[4] = 2.6}     \\
{\tt iRow[5] = 2}       &       {\tt jCol[5] = 6}       & {\tt values[5] = 0.5}     \\
{\tt iRow[6] = 3}       &       {\tt jCol[6] = 2}       & {\tt values[6] = 7.8}     \\
{\tt iRow[7] = 3}       &       {\tt jCol[7] = 3}       & {\tt values[7] = 0.6}     \\
{\tt iRow[8] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[8] = 3}       & {\tt values[8] = 1.5}     \\
{\tt iRow[9] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[9] = 4}       & {\tt values[9] = 2.7}     \\
{\tt iRow[10] = 5}      &       {\tt jCol[10] = 0}      & {\tt values[10] = 1.6}     \\
{\tt iRow[11] = 5}      &       {\tt jCol[11] = 4}      & {\tt values[11] = 0.4}     \\
{\tt iRow[12] = 6}      &       {\tt jCol[12] = 5}      & {\tt values[12] = 0.9}     \\
{\tt iRow[13] = 6}      &       {\tt jCol[13] = 6}      & {\tt values[13] = 1.7}
\end{tabular}
\caption{Triplet Format of Matrix (\ref{eqn.ex_matrix}) 
with {\tt index\_style=C\_STYLE}}
\label{tab.c_triplet}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{footnotesize}
The individual elements of the matrix can be listed in any order, and
if there are multiple items for the same nonzero position, the values
provided for those positions are added.

The Hessian of the Lagrangian is a symmetric matrix. In the case of a
symmetric matrix, you only need to specify the lower left triangular
part (or, alternatively, the upper right triangular part). For
example, given the matrix,
\begin{equation}
\label{eqn.ex_sym_matrix}
\left[
\begin{array}{ccccccc}
1.0	& 0	& 3.0	& 0	& 2.0 	\\
0	& 1.1	& 0	& 0	& 5.0	\\
3.0	& 0	& 1.2	& 6.0	& 0	\\
0	& 0	& 6.0	& 1.3	& 9.0	\\
2.0	& 5.0	& 0	& 9.0	& 1.4
\end{array}
\right]
\end{equation}
the triplet format is shown in Tables \ref{tab.sym_fortran_triplet}
and \ref{tab.sym_c_triplet}.

\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{table}[ht]%[!h]
\begin{center}
\caption{Triplet Format of Matrix (\ref{eqn.ex_matrix}) 
with {\tt index\_style=FORTRAN\_STYLE}}
\label{tab.sym_fortran_triplet}
\begin{tabular}{c c c}
row     		&       col     	&       value 			    \\
\hline
{\tt iRow[0] = 1}       &       {\tt jCol[0] = 1}       & {\tt values[0] = 1.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[1] = 2}       &       {\tt jCol[1] = 1}       & {\tt values[1] = 1.1}     \\
{\tt iRow[2] = 3}       &       {\tt jCol[2] = 1}       & {\tt values[2] = 3.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[3] = 3}       &       {\tt jCol[3] = 3}       & {\tt values[3] = 1.2}     \\
{\tt iRow[4] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[4] = 3}       & {\tt values[4] = 6.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[5] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[5] = 4}       & {\tt values[5] = 1.3}     \\
{\tt iRow[6] = 5}       &       {\tt jCol[6] = 1}       & {\tt values[6] = 2.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[7] = 5}       &       {\tt jCol[7] = 2}       & {\tt values[7] = 5.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[8] = 5}       &       {\tt jCol[8] = 4}       & {\tt values[8] = 9.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[9] = 5}       &       {\tt jCol[9] = 5}       & {\tt values[9] = 1.4}
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\begin{table}[ht]%[!h]
\begin{center}
\caption{Triplet Format of Matrix (\ref{eqn.ex_matrix}) 
with {\tt index\_style=C\_STYLE}}
\label{tab.sym_c_triplet}
\begin{tabular}{c c c}
row     		&       col     	&       value 			    \\
\hline
{\tt iRow[0] = 0}       &       {\tt jCol[0] = 0}       & {\tt values[0] = 1.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[1] = 1}       &       {\tt jCol[1] = 0}       & {\tt values[1] = 1.1}     \\
{\tt iRow[2] = 2}       &       {\tt jCol[2] = 0}       & {\tt values[2] = 3.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[3] = 2}       &       {\tt jCol[3] = 2}       & {\tt values[3] = 1.2}     \\
{\tt iRow[4] = 3}       &       {\tt jCol[4] = 2}       & {\tt values[4] = 6.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[5] = 3}       &       {\tt jCol[5] = 3}       & {\tt values[5] = 1.3}     \\
{\tt iRow[6] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[6] = 0}       & {\tt values[6] = 2.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[7] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[7] = 1}       & {\tt values[7] = 5.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[8] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[8] = 3}       & {\tt values[8] = 9.0}     \\
{\tt iRow[9] = 4}       &       {\tt jCol[9] = 4}       & {\tt values[9] = 1.4}
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\end{table}
\end{footnotesize}
\newpage
\section{The Smart Pointer Implementation: {\tt SmartPtr<T>}} \label{app.smart_ptr}

The {\tt SmartPtr} class is described in {\tt IpSmartPtr.hpp}. It is a
template class that takes care of deleting objects for us so we need
not be concerned about memory leaks. Instead of pointing to an object
with a raw C++ pointer (e.g. {\tt HS071\_NLP*}), we use a {\tt
  SmartPtr}.  Every time a {\tt SmartPtr} is set to reference an
object, it increments a counter in that object (see the {\tt
  ReferencedObject} base class if you are interested). If a {\tt
  SmartPtr} is done with the object, either by leaving scope or being
set to point to another object, the counter is decremented. When the
count of the object goes to zero, the object is automatically deleted.
{\tt SmartPtr}'s are very simple, just use them as you would a
standard pointer.

It is very important to use {\tt SmartPtr}'s instead of raw pointers
when passing objects to \Ipopt. Internally, \Ipopt\ uses smart
pointers for referencing objects. If you use a raw pointer in your
executable, the object's counter will NOT get incremented. Then, when
\Ipopt\ uses smart pointers inside its own code, the counter will get
incremented. However, before \Ipopt\ returns control to your code, it
will decrement as many times as it incremented earlier, and the
counter will return to zero. Therefore, \Ipopt\ will delete the
object. When control returns to you, you now have a raw pointer that
points to a deleted object.

This might sound difficult to anyone not familiar with the use of
smart pointers, but just follow one simple rule; always use a SmartPtr
when creating or passing an \Ipopt\ object.

\newpage
\section{Options Reference} \label{app.options_ref}

Options can be set using {\tt ipopt.opt}, through your own code, or
through the AMPL {\tt ipopt\_options} command. See Section
\ref{sec:options} for an explanation of how to use these commands.
Shown here is a list of the most important options for Ipopt. To view
the full list of options, you can set the option 
\begin{verbatim}
print_options_documentation yes
\end{verbatim}
or simply run the \Ipopt\ AMPL solver executable as
\begin{verbatim}
ipopt --print-options
\end{verbatim}


The most common options are:

\input{options.tex}

\newpage
\section{Detailed Installation Information}\label{ExpertInstall}

The configuration script and Makefiles in the \Ipopt\ distribution
have been created using GNU's {\tt autoconf} and {\tt automake}.  They
attempt to automatically adapt the compiler settings etc.\ to the
system they are running on.  We tested the provided scripts for a
number of different machines, operating systems and compilers, but you
might run into a situation where the default setting does not work, or
where you need to change the settings to fit your particular
environment.

In general, you can see the list of options and variables that can be
set for the {\tt configure} script by typing \verb/configure --help/.
Also, the generic COIN-OR Help pages are a valuable resource of
information:

\centerline{\tt https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinHelp}

Below a few particular options are discussed:

\begin{itemize}
\item The {\tt configure} script tries to determine automatically, if
  you have BLAS and/or LAPACK already installed on your system (trying
  a few default libraries), and if it does not find them, it makes
  sure that you put the source code in the required place.

  However, you can specify a BLAS library (such as your local ATLAS
  library\footnote{see {\tt http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/}})
  explicitly, using the \verb/--with-blas/ flag for {\tt configure}.
  For example,

  \verb|./configure --with-blas="-L$HOME/lib -lf77blas -lcblas -latlas"|

  To tell the configure script to compile and use the downloaded BLAS
  source files even if a BLAS library is found on your system, specify
  \verb|--with-blas=BUILD|.

  Similarly, you can use the \verb/--with-lapack/ switch to specify
  the location of your LAPACK library, or use the keyword {\tt BUILD}
  to force the \Ipopt\ makefiles to compile LAPACK together with
  \Ipopt.

\item Similarly, if you have a precompiled library containing the
  Harwell Subroutines, you can specify the link flags with the
  \verb|--with-hsl| flag.  And the \emph{location of the directory}
  with the AMPL solver library {\tt amplsolver.a} and the ASL header
  files can be specified with \verb|--with-asldir|.

\item If you want to compile \Ipopt\ with the linear solver Pardiso
  (see Section~\ref{sec:Pardiso}), you need to specify the link flags
  for the library with the \verb|--with-pardiso| flag, including
  required additional libraries and flags.  For example, if you want
  to compile \Ipopt\ with the parallel version of Pardiso (located in
  {\tt \$HOME/lib}) on an AIX system in 64bit mode, you should add the
  flag

  \verb|--with-pardiso="-qsmp=omp $HOME/lib/libpardiso_P4AIX51_64_P.so"|

  If you are using the parallel version of Pardiso, you need to
  specify the number of processors it should run on with the
  environment variable \verb|OMP_NUM_THREADS|, as described in the
  Pardiso manual.

\item If you want to compile \Ipopt\ with the linear solver WSMP (see
  Section~\ref{sec:WSMP}), you need to specify the link flags for the
  library with the \verb|--with-wsmp| flag, including required
  additional libraries and flags.  For example, if you want to compile
  \Ipopt\ with WSMP (located in {\tt \$HOME/lib}) on an Intel IA32
  Linux system, you should add the flag

  \verb|--with-wsmp="$HOME/lib/wsmp/wsmp-Linux/lib/IA32/libwsmp.a -lpthread"|

\item If you want to compile \Ipopt\ with a precompiled MUMPS library
  (see Section~\ref{sec:MUMPS}), you need to specify the directory containing
  the MUMPS header files with the \verb|--with-mumps-incdir| flag,
  e.g.,

  \verb|--with-mumps-incdir="$HOME/MUMPS/include"|

  and you also need to provide the link flags for MUMPS with the
  \verb|--with-mumps-lib| flag.

\item If you want to specify that you want to use particular
  compilers, you can do so by adding the variables definitions for
  {\tt CXX}, {\tt CC}, and {\tt F77} to the {\tt ./configure} command
  line, to specify the C++, C, and Fortran compiler, respectively.
  For example,

  {\tt ./configure CXX=g++-4.2.0 CC=gcc-4.2.0 F77=gfortran-4.2.0}

  In order to set the compiler flags, you should use the variables
  {\tt CXXFLAGS}, {\tt CFLAGS}, {\tt FFLAGS}.  Note, that the \Ipopt\
  code uses ``{\tt dynamic\_cast}''.  Therefore it is necessary that
  the C++ code is compiled including RTTI (Run-Time Type Information).
  Some compilers need to be given special flags to do that (e.g.,
  ``{\tt -qrtti=dyna}'' for the AIX {\tt xlC} compiler).

  Please also check the generic COIN-OR help page at

  \centerline{\tt https://projects.coin-or.org/CoinHelp/wiki/user-configure\#GivingOptions}

  for the description of more variables that can be set for {\tt
    configure}.

\item By default, the \Ipopt\ library is compiled as a shared library,
  on systems where this is supported.  If you want to generate a
  static library, you need to specify the {\tt --disable-shared}
  flag.  If you want to compile both shared and static libraries, you
  should specify the {\tt --enable-static} flag.

\item If you want to link the \Ipopt\ library with a main program
  written in C or Fortran, the C and Fortran compiler doing the
  linking of the executable needs to be told about the C++ runtime
  libraries.  Unfortunately, the current version of {\tt autoconf}
  does not provide the automatic detection of those libraries.  We
  have hard-coded some default values for some systems and compilers,
  but this might not work all the time.

  If you have problems linking your Fortran or C code with the \Ipopt\
  library {\tt libipopt.a} and the linker complains about missing
  symbols from C++ (e.g., the standard template library), you should
  specify the C++ libraries with the {\tt CXXLIBS} variable.  To find out
  what those libraries are, it is probably helpful to link a  simple C++
  program with verbose compiler output.

  For example, for the Intel compilers on a Linux system, you
  might need to specify something like

  {\tt ./configure CC=icc F77=ifort CXX=icpc $\backslash$\\ \hspace*{14ex} CXXLIBS='-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.2.3 -lstdc++'}

\item Compilation in 64bit mode sometimes requires some special
  consideration.  For example, for compilation of 64bit code on AIX,
  we recommend the following configuration

  {\tt ./configure AR='ar -X64' NM='nm -X64' $\backslash$\\
    \hspace*{14ex} CC='xlc -q64' F77='xlf -q64' CXX='xlC
    -q64'$\backslash$\\ \hspace*{14ex} CFLAGS='-O3
    -bmaxdata:0x3f0000000'
    $\backslash$\\ \hspace*{14ex} FFLAGS='-O3 -bmaxdata:0x3f0000000' $\backslash$\\
    \hspace*{14ex} CXXFLAGS='-qrtti=dyna -O3 -bmaxdata:0x3f0000000'}

  (Alternatively, a simpler solution for AIX is to set the environment variable {\tt OBJECT\_MODE} to 64.)

% \item To build library/archive files (with the ending {\tt .a})
%   including C++ code in some environments, it is necessary to use the
%   C++ compiler instead of {\tt ar} to build the archive.  This is for
%   example the case for some older compilers on SGI and SUN.  For this,
%   the {\tt configure} variables {\tt AR}, {\tt ARFLAGS}, and {\tt
%     AR\_X} are provided.  Here, {\tt AR} specifies the command for the
%   archiver for creating an archive, and {\tt ARFLAGS} specifies
%   additional flags.  {\tt AR\_X} contains the command for extracting
%   all files from an archive.  For example, the default setting for SUN
%   compilers for our configure script is

%   {\tt AR='CC -xar' ARFLAGS='-o' AR\_X='ar x'}

\item It is possible to compile the \Ipopt\ library in a debug
  configuration, by specifying \verb|--enable-debug|.  Then the
  compilers will use the debug flags (unless the compilation flag
  variables are overwritten in the {\tt configure} command line)

  Also, you can tell \Ipopt\ to do some additional runtime sanity
  checks, by specifying the flag {\tt --with-ipopt-checklevel=1}.

  This usually leads to a significant slowdown of the code, but might
  be helpful when debugging something.

\item It is not necessary to produce the binary files in the
  directories where the source files are.  If you want to compile the
  code on different systems or with different compilers/options on a
  shared file system, you can keep one single copy of the source files
  in one directory, and the binary files for each configuration in
  separate directories.  For this, simply run the configure script in
  the directory where you want the base directory for the \Ipopt\
  binary files.  For example:

  {\tt \$ mkdir \$HOME/Ipopt-objects}\\
  {\tt \$ cd \$HOME/Ipopt-objects}\\
  {\tt \$ \$HOME/CoinIpopt/configure}

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