COIN-OR::LEMON - Graph Library

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1/**
2\page getstart How to start using LEMON
3
4In this page we detail how to start using LEMON, from downloading it to
5your computer, through the steps of installation, to showing a simple
6"Hello World" type program that already uses LEMON. We assume that you
7have a basic knowledge of your operating system and \c C++ programming
8language. The procedure is pretty straightforward, but if you have any
9difficulties don't hesitate to
10<a href="http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/mailinglists.html">ask</a>.
11
12\section requirementsLEMON Hardware and software requirements
13
14In LEMON we use C++ templates heavily, thus compilation takes a
15considerable amount of time and memory. So some decent box would be
16advantageous. But otherwise there are no special hardware requirements.
17
18You will need a recent C++ compiler. Our primary target is the GNU C++
19Compiler (g++), from version 3.3 upwards. We also checked the Intel C
20compiler (icc). Microsoft Visual C++ .NET version was also reported to
21work (but not the earlier versions). If you want to develop with LEMON
22under Windows you could consider using Cygwin.
23
24
25In this description we will suppose a linux environment and GNU C Compiler.
26
27\section downloadLEMON How to download LEMON
28
29You can download LEMON from the LEMON web site:
30http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/download.html.
31There you will find released versions in form of <tt>.tar.gz</tt> files.
32If you want a developer version (for example you want to contribute in
33developing the library LEMON) then you might want to use our Subversion
34repository. This case is not detailed here, so from now on we suppose that
35you downloaded a tar.gz file.
36
37
38
39\section installLEMON How to install LEMON
40
41In order to install LEMON you have to do the following steps.
42
43Download the tarball (named <tt>lemon-x.y.z.tar.gz</tt> where \c x,\c y
44and \c z are numbers indicating the version of the library: in our example
45we will have <tt>lemon-0.3.1.tar.gz</tt>) and issue the following
46commands:
47
48\verbatim
49tar xvzf lemon-0.3.1.tar.gz
50cd lemon-0.3.1
51./configure
52make
53make check   #(This is optional, but recommended. It runs a bunch of tests.)
54make install
55\endverbatim
56
57These commands install LEMON under \c /usr/local (you will
58need root privileges to be able to install to that
59directory). If you want to install it to some other place, then
60pass the \c --prefix=DIRECTORY flag to \c ./configure, for example:
61
62\verbatim
63./configure --prefix=/home/user1/lemon
64\endverbatim
65
66In what follows we will assume that you were able to install to directory
67\c /usr/local, otherwise some extra care is to be taken to use the
68library.
69
70We briefly explain these commands below.
71
72\verbatim
73tar xvzf lemon-0.3.1.tar.gz
74\endverbatim
75This command untars the <tt>tar.gz</tt> file into a directory named <tt>
76lemon-0.3.1</tt>.
77
78\verbatim
79cd lemon-0.3.1
80\endverbatim
81Enters the directory.
82
83\verbatim
84./configure
85\endverbatim
86Does some configuration (creates makefiles etc).
87\todo Explain the most important switches here (gui, doc, glpk, cplex).
88
89\verbatim
90make
91\endverbatim
92This command compiles the non-template part of LEMON into
93<b>libemon.a</b> file. It also compiles some benchmark and demo
94programs.
95
96\verbatim
97make check
98\endverbatim
99This is an optional step: it runs the test programs that we
100developed for LEMON to check whether the library works properly on
101your platform.
102
103\verbatim
104make install
105\endverbatim
106This will copy the directory structure to its final destination (e.g. to \c
107/usr/local) so that your system can access it. This command should
108be issued as "root", unless you provided a \c --prefix switch to
109the \c cofugure to install the library in non-default location.
110
111\section helloworld My first program using LEMON
112
113If you have installed LEMON on your system you can paste the
114following code segment into a file (you can find it as \c
115demo/hello_lemon.cc in the LEMON package) to have a first working
116program that uses library LEMON.
117
118\include hello_lemon.cc
119
120First let us briefly explain how this program works.
121
122ListGraph is one of LEMON's graph classes. It is based on linked lists,
123therefore iterating throuh its edges and nodes is fast.
124
125After some convenient typedefs we create a graph and add three nodes to it.
126Then we add edges to it to form a complete graph.
127
128Then we iterate through all nodes of the graph. We use a constructor of the
129node iterator to initialize it to the first node. The operator++ is used to
130step to the next node. Using operator++ on the iterator pointing to the last
131node invalidates the iterator i.e. sets its value to
132\ref lemon::INVALID "INVALID". This is what we exploit in the stop condition.
133
134We can also iterate through all edges of the graph very similarly. The
135\c target and
136\c source member functions can be used to access the endpoints of an edge.
137
138If your installation of LEMON into directory \c /usr/local was
139successful then it is very easy to compile this program with the
140following command (the argument <tt>-lemon</tt> tells the compiler
141that we are using the installed library LEMON):
142
143\verbatim
144g++ hello_lemon.cc -o hello_lemon -lemon
145\endverbatim
146
147As a result you will get the exacutable \c hello_lemon in
148this directory that you can run by the command
149\verbatim
150./hello_lemon
151\endverbatim
152
153
154If everything has gone well then the previous code fragment prints
155out the following:
156
157\verbatim
158Nodes: 2 1 0
159
160Edges: (0,2) (1,2) (0,1) (2,1) (1,0) (2,0)
161\endverbatim
162
163Congratulations!
164
165If you want to see more features, go to the
166\ref quicktour "Quick Tour to LEMON",
167if you want to see see some demo programs then go to our
168\ref demoprograms "Demo Programs" page!
169
170
171*/
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