README_Windows

NAME
    README_Windows -- A installation guide for OOQP under Microsoft Windows

SYNOPSYS
    OOQP was developed under an UNIX-like environment, but also may be
    installed and will run under Microsoft Windows. The C++ code itself is
    platform-independent. The only issue is the system for building the
    libraries and executables.

    The file INSTALL contains instructions for compiling OOQP in a UNIX-like
    environment, as well as general information about installing OOQP. The
    current file contains suplemental information for compiling under
    Windows. We are aware of two reasonable options. The first is to install
    and use Cygwin. The second is to compile under Microsoft Visual C++.

CYGWIN
    Cygwin is a UNIX-like environment that runs under Windows. It is freely
    available from <http://www.cygwin.com>, or may be purchased on machine
    readable media. If you choose to install Cygwin, you may simply follow
    the standard instructions in the INSTALL guide.

Visual C++
    OOQP is primarily developed under GNU Linux, and the files needed to
    compile OOQP under Microsoft Visual Studio are not part of the standard
    OOQP distribution. We are not aware of any technical impediment to
    compiling OOQP under Visual Studio -- please report any problem you may
    find.

    To compile OOQP with Visual Studio, you must accomplish the following
    tasks.

    1)  Obtain a means of compiling MA27, which is written in Fortran 77.
        F2C may work (see the INSTALL file for a discussion of F2C). There
        are also commercial packages that support for compiling Fortran with
        Visual Studio; we don't have experience with these.

    2)  Obtain BLAS and LAPACK libraries for Visual Studio. These may be
        compiled from source, but to do so you need a Fortran compiler (see
        INSTALL). Use the same Fortran compiler that you use to build MA27.

    3)  Either find a way to use the OOQP makefiles with the Visual Studio
        compilers (e.g. via Cygwin), or create a Visual Studio project
        building the necessary executables. The task of builing an
        appropriate project is tedious, but not technically difficult. The
        appropriate "main" routine for the sparse general solver is in
        src/QpGen/QpGenSparseGondzioDriver.C. It should be Ok to include all
        other the .C files under src/ the Visual Studio project that builds
        the sparse general solver, so long as these files do not provide an
        alternate definition of main (by convention the files that contain a
        main routine have "Driver" in the name).

    4)  Link against (build the excutables using) an appropriate Fortran
        system library.

    Additional support for compiling with Visual Studio may be available on
    the OOQP web site.