Prerequisites for installation: - at the moment on (*)nix platforms you must use g++ 2.95.2 or higher. - must use gnu make - to make the documentation doxygen must be installed Targets are put in subdirectories, whose name is derived from the platform name (as returned by `uname`) and the optimization level (e.g., Linux-g). To build Osi library and unitTest - read and edit the top of Makefile to select - whether shared or static library should be built - optimization level - where the compiled library should be installed - which solvers you want to compile in. If you want to use the Volume Algorithm as a solver then first you must build and install libvol. See Vol/INSTALL in the COIN root directory. - 'make' to build and install the library. - 'make unitTest' to create the unitTest program. It will be placed in the target subdirectory. - 'make doc' to create the html documentation of the classes in the library and place them in doc/html. To run Osi unitTest - ./TARGET_SUBDIRECTORY/unitTest where TARGET_SUBDIRECTORY is the name of the subdirectory containing the unitTest executable.