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 have a
7basic knowledge of your operating system and \c C++ or \c C
8programming language.
9
10\section requirementsLEMON Hardware and software requirements
11
12Hardware requirements ...
13
14You will also need a C++ compiler. We mostly used the Gnu C++ Compiler (g++),
15from version 3.0 upwards. We also checked the Intel C compiler
16(icc). Unfortunately, Visual C++ compiler knows not enough to compile the
17library, so if you are using Microsoft Windows, then try to compile under
18Cygwin.
19
20Ide kell írni:
21 
22-Hol fordul (Windows-os fordító nem fordítja, unix/linux alatt gcc hanyas verziója kell)
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/dowload.html
31. There you will find the issued distributions
32in form of <tt> .tar.gz </tt> files. If you want a developer version  (for example you want to contribute in developing the library LEMON) then you might want to use our Subversion repository. This case is not detailed here, so from now on we suppose that you downloaded a tar.gz file.
33
34
35
36\section installLEMON How to install LEMON
37
38In order to install LEMON you have to do the following
39
40Download the tarball (named <tt>lemon-x.y.z.tar.gz</tt> where \c x,\c y and \c z are
41numbers indicating the version of the library: in our example we will have lemon-0.3.1) and issue the following commands:
42
43\code
44tar xvzf lemon-0.3.1.tar.gz
45cd lemon-0.3.1
46./configure
47make
48make check (This is optional, but recomended. It runs a bunch of tests.)
49make install
50\endcode
51
52These commands install LEMON under \c /usr/local (you will probably need \c root
53privileges to be able to install to that directory). If you want to install it
54to some other place, then pass the \c --prefix=DIR flag to \c ./configure. In
55what follows we will assume that you were able to install to directory \c
56/usr/local, otherwise some extra care is to be taken to use the library.
57
58We briefly explain these commands below.
59
60\code
61tar xvzf lemon-0.3.1.tar.gz
62\endcode
63This command untars the <tt>tar.gz</tt> file into a directory named <tt> lemon-0.3.1</tt>.
64
65\code
66cd lemon-0.3.1
67\endcode
68Enters the directory.
69
70\code
71./configure
72\endcode
73Does some configuration (creates makefiles etc).
74
75\code
76make
77\endcode
78This command compiles the <tt> .cc</tt> files of the library package (the
79implementation of non-template functions and classes and some test and demo
80programs) and creates the very important <b> libemon.la </b> file. When
81linking your program that uses LEMON it needs to access this file.
82
83\code
84make check (This is optional, but recomended. It runs a bunch of tests.)
85\endcode
86This is an optional step: it runs the test programs that we developed for
87LEMON to check
88whether the library works properly on your platform.
89
90\code
91make install
92\endcode
93This will copy the directory structure to its final destination (e.g. to \c
94/usr/local) so that your system can access it.
95
96\section helloworld My first program using LEMON
97
98If you have installed LEMON on your system you
99can paste the following code
100segment into a file to have a first working program that uses library LEMON.
101
102\code
103#include <iostream>
104#include <lemon/list_graph.h>
105
106using namespace lemon;
107
108int main()
109{
110  typedef ListGraph Graph;
111  typedef Graph::EdgeIt EdgeIt;
112  typedef Graph::NodeIt NodeIt;
113
114  Graph g;
115 
116  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
117    g.addNode();
118 
119  for (NodeIt i(g); i!=INVALID; ++i)
120    for (NodeIt j(g); j!=INVALID; ++j)
121      if (i != j) g.addEdge(i, j);
122
123  std::cout << "Nodes:";
124  for (NodeIt i(g); i!=INVALID; ++i)
125    std::cout << " " << g.id(i);
126  std::cout << std::endl;
127
128  std::cout << "Edges:";
129  for (EdgeIt i(g); i!=INVALID; ++i)
130    std::cout << " (" << g.id(g.source(i)) << "," << g.id(g.target(i)) << ")";
131  std::cout << std::endl;
132
133\endcode
134
135First let us briefly explain how this program works.
136
137ListGraph is one of LEMON's graph classes. It is based on linked lists,
138therefore iterating throuh its edges and nodes is fast.
139
140After some convenient typedefs we create a graph and add three nodes to it.
141Then we add edges to it to form a complete graph.
142
143Then we iterate through all nodes of the graph. We use a constructor of the
144node iterator to initialize it to the first node. The operator++ is used to
145step to the next node. Using operator++ on the iterator pointing to the last
146node invalidates the iterator i.e. sets its value to
147\ref lemon::INVALID "INVALID". This is what we exploit in the stop condition.
148
149We can also iterate through all edges of the graph very similarly. The
150\c target and
151\c source member functions can be used to access the endpoints of an edge.
152
153If you have saved the preceding code into a file named, say,  \c hemon.cc and your installation of LEMON into directory \c /usr/local was
154successful then it is very easy to compile this program with the following
155command (the argument <tt>-lemon</tt> tells the compiler that we are using the
156installed library LEMON):
157\code
158g++ hemon.cc -o hemon -lemon
159\endcode
160
161As a result you will get the exacutable \c hemon in
162this directory that you can run by the command
163\code
164./hemon
165\endcode
166
167
168If everything has gone well then the previous code fragment prints out the following:
169
170\code
171Nodes: 2 1 0
172
173Edges: (0,2) (1,2) (0,1) (2,1) (1,0) (2,0)
174\endcode
175
176Congratulations!
177
178If you want to see more features, go to the \ref quicktour "Quick Tour to
179LEMON", if you want to see see some demo programs then go to our
180\ref demoprograms "Demo Programs" page!
181
182
183*/
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