[Lemon-devel] Pre-built library for Windows (32 and 64 bit)

[Alpár Jüttner]

Hi,

> Does anyone have precompiled binaries for 32 and 64bit versions of
> windows (DLLs)?

Unfortunately there isn't. We investigated the question some years ago,
but it turned out that it is impossible the create compiler independent
DLLs from C++ code. In other words, we should provide different
precompiled binary for each possible architecture, compiler type and
compiler version, which we simply cannot do.

In fact, I don't think it would be really useful, either. Most of the
LEMON code is template, therefore they are in the .h files. Only a
handful of tools are precompiled (such as ArgParser and the LP/MIP
interface), and they are all optional. It is thus fairly easy to
integrate LEMON to your own code, either
      * by simply copying the lemon source codes to the project or
      * by using our CMAKE based project template (see
        https://lemon.cs.elte.hu/trac/lemon/wiki/ProjectTemplate ).

This latter option is really robust and it is a _huge_ help if you want
to make platform independent solution.

Regards,
Alpar