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Installation Instructions
=========================

This file contains instructions for building and installing LEMON from
source on Linux. The process on Windows is similar.

Note that it is not necessary to install LEMON in order to use
it. Instead, you can easily integrate it with your own code
directly. For instructions, see
https://lemon.cs.elte.hu/trac/lemon/wiki/HowToCompile


In order to install LEMON from the extracted source tarball you have to
issue the following commands:

   1. Step into the root of the source directory.

      $ cd lemon-x.y.z

   2. Create a build subdirectory and step into it.

      $ mkdir build
      $ cd build

   3. Perform system checks and create the makefiles.

      $ cmake ..

   4. Build LEMON.

      $ make 

      This command compiles the non-template part of LEMON into
      libemon.a file. It also compiles the programs in the 'tools' and
      'demo' subdirectories.

   5. [Optional] Compile and run the self-tests.

      $ make check

   5. [Optional] Generate the user documentation.

      $ make html

      The release tarballs already include the documentation.

      Note that for this step you need to have the following tools
      installed: Python, Doxygen, Graphviz, Ghostscript, LaTeX.

   6. [Optional] Install LEMON

      $ make install

      This command installs LEMON under /usr/local (you will need root
      privileges to be able to do that). If you want to install it to
      some other location, then pass the
      -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=DIRECTORY flag to cmake in Step 3.
      For example:
      
      $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/username/lemon'

Configure Options and Variables
===============================

In Step 3, you can customize the build process by passing options to CMAKE.

$ cmake [OPTIONS] ..

You find a list of the most useful options below.

-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=PREFIX

  Set the installation prefix to PREFIX. By default it is /usr/local.

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=[Release|Debug|Maintainer|...]

  This sets the compiler options. The choices are the following

  'Release': A strong optimization is turned on (-O3 with gcc). This
    is the default setting and we strongly recommend using this for
    the final compilation.

  'Debug': Optimization is turned off and debug info is added (-O0
    -ggdb with gcc). If is recommended during the development.

  'Maintainer': The same as 'Debug' but the compiler warnings are
    converted to errors (-Werror with gcc). In addition, 'make' will
    also automatically compile and execute the test codes. It is the
    best way of ensuring that LEMON codebase is clean and safe.

  'RelWithDebInfo': Optimized build with debug info.

  'MinSizeRel': Size optimized build (-Os with gcc)

-DTEST_WITH_VALGRIND=YES

  Using this, the test codes will be executed using valgrind. It is a
  very effective way of identifying indexing problems and memory leaks.

-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=path-to-compiler

  Change the compiler to be used.

-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=TRUE

  Build shared library instead of static one. Think twice if you
  really want to use this option.

-DGLPK_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY
-DCOIN_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY
-DCPLEX_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY

  Install root directory prefixes of optional third party libraries.

Makefile Variables
==================

make VERBOSE=1

   This results in a more verbose output by showing the full
   compiler and linker commands.