INSTALL
author Alpar Juttner <alpar@cs.elte.hu>
Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:09:01 +0200
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Add file export funcionality to LpBase (#457)
     1 Installation Instructions
     2 =========================
     3 
     4 This file contains instructions for building and installing LEMON from
     5 source on Linux. The process on Windows is similar.
     6 
     7 Note that it is not necessary to install LEMON in order to use
     8 it. Instead, you can easily integrate it with your own code
     9 directly. For instructions, see
    10 https://lemon.cs.elte.hu/trac/lemon/wiki/HowToCompile
    11 
    12 
    13 In order to install LEMON from the extracted source tarball you have to
    14 issue the following commands:
    15 
    16    1. Step into the root of the source directory.
    17 
    18       $ cd lemon-x.y.z
    19 
    20    2. Create a build subdirectory and step into it.
    21 
    22       $ mkdir build
    23       $ cd build
    24 
    25    3. Perform system checks and create the makefiles.
    26 
    27       $ cmake ..
    28 
    29    4. Build LEMON.
    30 
    31       $ make 
    32 
    33       This command compiles the non-template part of LEMON into
    34       libemon.a file. It also compiles the programs in the 'tools' and
    35       'demo' subdirectories.
    36 
    37    5. [Optional] Compile and run the self-tests.
    38 
    39       $ make check
    40 
    41    5. [Optional] Generate the user documentation.
    42 
    43       $ make html
    44 
    45       The release tarballs already include the documentation.
    46 
    47       Note that for this step you need to have the following tools
    48       installed: Python, Doxygen, Graphviz, Ghostscript, LaTeX.
    49 
    50    6. [Optional] Install LEMON
    51 
    52       $ make install
    53 
    54       This command installs LEMON under /usr/local (you will need root
    55       privileges to be able to do that). If you want to install it to
    56       some other location, then pass the
    57       -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=DIRECTORY flag to cmake in Step 3.
    58       For example:
    59       
    60       $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/username/lemon'
    61 
    62 Configure Options and Variables
    63 ===============================
    64 
    65 In Step 3, you can customize the build process by passing options to CMAKE.
    66 
    67 $ cmake [OPTIONS] ..
    68 
    69 You find a list of the most useful options below.
    70 
    71 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=PREFIX
    72 
    73   Set the installation prefix to PREFIX. By default it is /usr/local.
    74 
    75 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=[Release|Debug|Maintainer|...]
    76 
    77   This sets the compiler options. The choices are the following
    78 
    79   'Release': A strong optimization is turned on (-O3 with gcc). This
    80     is the default setting and we strongly recommend using this for
    81     the final compilation.
    82 
    83   'Debug': Optimization is turned off and debug info is added (-O0
    84     -ggdb with gcc). If is recommended during the development.
    85 
    86   'Maintainer': The same as 'Debug' but the compiler warnings are
    87     converted to errors (-Werror with gcc). In addition, 'make' will
    88     also automatically compile and execute the test codes. It is the
    89     best way of ensuring that LEMON codebase is clean and safe.
    90 
    91   'RelWithDebInfo': Optimized build with debug info.
    92 
    93   'MinSizeRel': Size optimized build (-Os with gcc)
    94 
    95 -DTEST_WITH_VALGRIND=YES
    96 
    97   Using this, the test codes will be executed using valgrind. It is a
    98   very effective way of identifying indexing problems and memory leaks.
    99 
   100 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=path-to-compiler
   101 
   102   Change the compiler to be used.
   103 
   104 -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=TRUE
   105 
   106   Build shared library instead of static one. Think twice if you
   107   really want to use this option.
   108 
   109 -DGLPK_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY
   110 -DCOIN_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY
   111 -DILOG_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY
   112 
   113   Install root directory prefixes of optional third party libraries.
   114 
   115 Makefile Variables
   116 ==================
   117 
   118 make VERBOSE=1
   119 
   120    This results in a more verbose output by showing the full
   121    compiler and linker commands.