/* -*- C++ -*-

 *

 * This file is a part of LEMON, a generic C++ optimization library

 *

 * Copyright (C) 2003-2007

 * Egervary Jeno Kombinatorikus Optimalizalasi Kutatocsoport

 * (Egervary Research Group on Combinatorial Optimization, EGRES).

 *

 * Permission to use, modify and distribute this software is granted

 * provided that this copyright notice appears in all copies. For

 * precise terms see the accompanying LICENSE file.

 *

 * This software is provided "AS IS" with no warranty of any kind,

 * express or implied, and with no claim as to its suitability for any

 * purpose.

 *

 */

/**

\page getstart How to start using LEMON

In this page we detail how to start using LEMON, from downloading it to

your computer, through the steps of installation, to showing a simple

"Hello World" type program that already uses LEMON. We assume that you

have a basic knowledge of your operating system and \c C++ programming

language. The procedure is pretty straightforward, but if you have any

difficulties don't hesitate to 

<a href="mailto:lemon-user@lemon.cs.elte.hu">ask</a>.

\section requirementsLEMON Hardware and software requirements

In LEMON we use C++ templates heavily, thus compilation takes a

considerable amount of time and memory. So some decent box would be

advantageous. But otherwise there are no special hardware requirements.

You will need a recent C++ compiler. Our primary target is the GNU C++

Compiler (g++), from version 3.3 upwards. We also checked the Intel C++

Compiler (icc). Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 was also reported to

work (but not the earlier versions). If you want to develop with LEMON

under Windows you could consider using Cygwin.

In this description we will suppose a Linux environment and GNU C++ Compiler.

\subsection requirementsLP LP solver requirements

The LEMON LP solver interface can use the GLPK (GNU Linear Programming

Kit) ,CPLEX (was tested with CPLEX 7.5) and SoPlex solver. If you want

to use it you will need at least one of these. See \ref configureFlags

how to enable these at compile time.

\section downloadLEMON How to download LEMON

You can download LEMON from the LEMON web site:

<a href="https://lemon.cs.elte.hu/site/products/">

https://lemon.cs.elte.hu/site/products/</a> .

There you will find released versions in 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 detailed later, so from now on we suppose that

you downloaded a <tt>.tar.gz</tt> file.

\section installLEMON How to install LEMON

In order to install LEMON you have to do the following steps.

Download the tarball (named <tt>lemon-x.y.z.tar.gz</tt> where \c x,\c y

and \c z are numbers indicating the version of the library: in our example

we will have <tt>lemon-0.3.1.tar.gz</tt>) and issue the following

commands:

\verbatim

tar xvzf lemon-0.3.1.tar.gz

cd lemon-0.3.1

./configure

make

make check   #(This is optional, but recommended. It runs a bunch of tests.)

make install

\endverbatim

These commands install LEMON under \c /usr/local (you will

need root privileges to be able to install to that

directory). If you want to install it to some other place, then

pass the \c --prefix=DIRECTORY flag to <tt>./configure</tt>, for example:

\verbatim

./configure --prefix=/home/username/lemon

\endverbatim

In what follows we will assume that you were able to install to directory

\c /usr/local, otherwise some extra care is to be taken to use the

library.

We briefly explain these commands below.

\verbatim

tar xvzf lemon-0.3.1.tar.gz

\endverbatim

This command untars the <tt>tar.gz</tt> file into a directory named <tt>

lemon-0.3.1</tt>.

\verbatim

cd lemon-0.3.1

\endverbatim

Enters the directory.

\verbatim

./configure

\endverbatim

Does some configuration (creates makefiles etc).

\verbatim

make

\endverbatim

This command compiles the non-template part of LEMON into

<b>libemon.a</b> file. It also compiles some benchmark and demo

programs.

\verbatim

make check

\endverbatim

This is an optional step: it runs the test programs that we

developed for LEMON to check whether the library works properly on

your platform.

\verbatim

make install

\endverbatim

This will copy the directory structure to its final destination (e.g. to \c

/usr/local) so that your system can access it. This command should

be issued as "root", unless you provided a \c --prefix switch to

the \c configure to install the library in non-default location.

\subsection configureFlags Configure flags

You can pass the following flags to <tt>./configure</tt> (see <tt>./configure</tt> --help

for more):

\verbatim

--with-glpk[=PREFIX]

\endverbatim

Enable GLPK support (default). You should specify the prefix too if you

installed it to some non-standard location (e.g. your home directory). If

GLPK is not found, then GLPK support will be disabled.

\verbatim

--with-glpk-includedir=DIR

\endverbatim

The directory where the GLPK header files are located. This is only useful when

the GLPK headers and libraries are not under the same prefix (which is

unlikely).

\verbatim

--with-glpk-libdir=DIR

\endverbatim

The directory where the GLPK libraries are located. This is only useful when

the GLPK headers and libraries are not under the same prefix (which is

unlikely).

\verbatim

--without-glpk

\endverbatim

Disable GLPK support.

\verbatim

--with-cplex[=PREFIX]

\endverbatim

Enable CPLEX support (default). You should specify the prefix too if you

installed it to some non-standard location (e.g. \c /opt/ilog/cplex75). If

CPLEX is not found, then CPLEX support will be disabled.

\verbatim

--with-cplex-includedir=DIR

\endverbatim

The directory where the CPLEX header files are located. This is only useful

when the CPLEX headers and libraries are not under the same prefix.

\verbatim

--with-cplex-libdir=DIR

\endverbatim

The directory where the CPLEX libraries are located. This is only useful when

the CPLEX headers and libraries are not under the same prefix.

\verbatim

--without-cplex

\endverbatim

Disable CPLEX support.

\verbatim 

--with-soplex[=PREFIX] 

\endverbatim 

Enable SoPlex support (default). You should specify the prefix too if

you installed it to some non-standard location. If SoPlex is not

found, then SoPlex support will be disabled.

\verbatim

--with-soplex-includedir=DIR

\endverbatim

The directory where the SoPlex header files are located. This is only useful

when the SoPlex headers and libraries are not under the same prefix.

\verbatim

--with-soplex-libdir=DIR

\endverbatim

The directory where the SoPlex libraries are located. This is only useful when

the SoPlex headers and libraries are not under the same prefix.

\verbatim

--without-soplex

\endverbatim

Disable SoPlex support.

\section svnCheckout How to checkout LEMON form our Subversion repository

You can obtain the latest version of LEMON from our Subversion repository. To

do this issue the following command:

\verbatim

svn co https://lemon.cs.elte.hu/svn/lemon/trunk lemon-src

\endverbatim

Use "lemon" as username, the password is empty.

\section svnCompile How to compile the source from the repository

You can compile the code from the repository similarly to the packaged

version, but you will need to run \c autoreconf \c -vi or 

<tt>./bootstrap</tt> in some older environment before <tt>./configure</tt>. See \c

./configure \c --help for options. For bootstrapping you will need the

following tools:

 - <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/">automake</a> (1.7 or newer)

 - <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/">autoconf</a> (2.59 or newer)

 - <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/">libtool</a>

 - <a href="http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/">pkgconfig</a>

To generate the documentation, run \c make \c doc. You will need

<a href="http://www.doxygen.org/">Doxygen</a> for this.

You can pass the \c --enable-doc=full flag to <tt>./configure</tt> to generate the

internal documentation too.

If you pass the \c --disable-doc flag to <tt>./configure</tt> then the documentation

won't be installed, when you run \c make \c install (this speeds things up a

bit).

\section helloworld My first program using LEMON

If you have installed LEMON on your system you can paste the

following code segment into a file (you can find it as \c

demo/hello_lemon.cc in the LEMON package) to have a first working

program that uses library LEMON.

\dontinclude hello_lemon.cc

\skip include

\until }

First let us briefly explain how this program works.

ListGraph is one of LEMON's graph classes. It is based on linked lists,

therefore iterating throuh its edges and nodes is fast.

After some convenience typedefs we create a graph and add three nodes to it.

Then we add edges to it to form a complete graph.

Then we iterate through all nodes of the graph. We use a constructor of the

node iterator to initialize it to the first node. The operator++ is used to

step to the next node. Using operator++ on the iterator pointing to the last

node invalidates the iterator i.e. sets its value to

\ref lemon::INVALID "INVALID". This is what we exploit in the stop condition.

We can also iterate through all edges of the graph very similarly. The 

\c target and

\c source member functions can be used to access the endpoints of an edge.

If your installation of LEMON into directory \c /usr/local was

successful, then it is very easy to compile this program with the

following command (the argument <tt>-lemon</tt> tells the compiler

that we are using the installed library LEMON):

\verbatim

g++ hello_lemon.cc -o hello_lemon -lemon

\endverbatim

As a result you will get the exacutable \c hello_lemon in

this directory that you can run by the command 

\verbatim

./hello_lemon

\endverbatim

If everything has gone well then the previous code fragment prints

out the following:

\verbatim

Nodes: 2 1 0

Edges: (0,2) (1,2) (0,1) (2,1) (1,0) (2,0)

\endverbatim

Congratulations!

If you want to see more features, go to the

\ref quicktour "Quick Tour to LEMON",

if you want to see some demo programs then go to our 

\ref demoprograms "Demo Programs" page! 

*/