diff -r d59bea55db9b -r c445c931472f examples/cplex/README --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/examples/cplex/README Mon Dec 06 13:09:21 2010 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +The program module in this subdirectory is a crude implementation of +CPLEX-like interface to GLPK API. It consists of two files: cplex.c and +cplex.h. + +NOTE that this module is NOT a clean room implementation of the CPLEX +callable library. It only implements a CPLEX-like interface to the GLPK +API routines, and its main purpose is to provide possibility to build +and run applications which normally use the CPLEX callable library. + +This module approximately corresponds to CPLEX 9.0. + +Currently this module can be used as a linear programming solver for +Concorde, the state-of-the-art computer code for solving the symmetric +traveling salesman problem (TSP) developed by David Applegate, Robert +Bixby, Vasek Chvatal, and William Cook. For details about Concorde see +its web page at http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/concorde.html. + +To build Concorde along with GLPK you need to do the following: + +1. Configure, build, and install GLPK. + +2. Download the Concorde tarball co031219.tgz (version Dec 19, 2003), + unpack and unarchive it. + +3. Copy files cplex.h and cplex.c to subdirectory concorde/LP/. + +4. Create file named lpglpk.c in subdirectory concorde/LP/. This file + must contain the following two lines: + + #include "cplex.c" + #include "lpcplex8.c" + +5. Configure Concorde in usual way (./configure) and then build it with + the following command: + + make CPPFLAGS=-I. LPSOLVER_INTERFACE=lpglpk.c LPSOLVER_LIB=-lglpk + + The Concorde executable can be found in subdirectory concorde/TSP/. + +Please note that currently this GLPK interface module does not support +some important features (namely, CPXgetijdiv, CPXmdleave, CPXpivotin, +CPXpivotout, and CPXstrongbranch), so large (more than 1000 nodes) TSP +instances cannot be solved in a reasonable time, and some instances may +cause abnormal termination of Concorde (if CPXgetijdiv is called).