These instructions are for UNIX-like systems (including Linux, Cygwin and MSys) only. If Microsoft Developer Studio projects are maintained for this package, you can find instructions at https://projects.coin-or.org/MSVisualStudio ********************************************************************** *** DOWNLOAD *** ********************************************************************** You can obtain the source code for the Vol package in two ways: 1. Obtain the source directly from the COIN-OR subversion repository (recommended). For this you needs the program 'svn' installed on your machine, and output of "svn --version" must contain "handles 'https' scheme". Assuming that you want to download the 'trunk' (where the development happens) version of the code into a subdirectory named "Vol", you type svn co https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Vol/trunk Vol To download stable/1.1 you'd type: svn co https://projects.coin-or.org/svn/Vol/stable/1.1 Vol etc. 2. Download the tarball from http://www.coin-or.org/download/source/Vol and extract it. For example, for the release 1.1.0 you type gunzip CoinUtils-1.1.0.tgz tar xvf CoinUtils-1.1.0.tar More detailed download instructions can be found at https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/user-download ********************************************************************** *** CONFIGURATION *** ********************************************************************** Go into the directory that you just downloaded or extracted (e.g., Vol or Vol-1.1.0). Then create a build directory and configure the package by typing mkdir build cd build ../configure Note that you might have to specify additional options, in case you don't want to use the default choices that configure makes (e.g., compilers). Please visit https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/user-configure and the Vol Trac page https://projects.coin-or.org/Vol for more information. If everything went fine, you will see at the end of the output "Main configuration of Vol successful" ********************************************************************** *** COMPILATION AND INSTALLATION *** ********************************************************************** In the directory where you ran the configure script: 1. Compile the code by typing make 2. To test if the code works, you can type make test 3. To install the code, you type make install After this, you will find the executables, libraries and header files in the "bin", "lib" and "include" subdirectory, respectively. More information on the compilation and installation can be found at https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/user-compile ********************************************************************** *** USING THE LIBRARIES *** ********************************************************************** Now you can link your own code with the installed libraries. You can find examples in the Vol/examples/ subdirectory, see also the information at https://projects.coin-or.org/BuildTools/wiki/user-examples