source: lemon-main/INSTALL @ 1144:760a5f690163

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.

-DLEMON_DOC_SOURCE_BROWSER=YES

  Include the browsable cross referenced LEMON source code into the
  doc. It makes the doc quite bloated, but may be useful for
  developing LEMON itself.

-DLEMON_DOC_USE_MATHJAX=YES

  Use MathJax (http://mathjax.org) for rendering the math formulae in
  the doc.  It of much higher quality compared to the default LaTeX
  generated static images and it allows copy&paste of the formulae to
  LaTeX, Open Office, MS Word etc. documents.

  On the other hand, it needs either Internet access or a locally
  installed version of MathJax to properly render the doc.

-DLEMON_DOC_MATHJAX_RELPATH=DIRECTORY
  
  The location of the MathJax library. It defaults to
  http://www.mathjax.org/mathjax, which necessitates Internet access
  for proper rendering. The easiest way to make it usable offline is
  to set this parameter to 'mathjax' and copy all files of the MathJax
  library into the 'doc/html/mathjax' subdirectory of the build
  location.

  See http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/installation.html for more details.

  
-DLEMON_ENABLE_GLPK=NO
-DLEMON_ENABLE_COIN=NO
-DLEMON_ENABLE_ILOG=NO

  Enable optional third party libraries. They are all enabled by default. 

-DLEMON_DEFAULT_LP=GLPK

  Sets the default LP solver backend. The supported values are
  CPLEX, CLP and GLPK. By default, it is set to the first one which
  is enabled and succesfully discovered.

-DLEMON_DEFAULT_MIP=GLPK

  Sets the default MIP solver backend. The supported values are
  CPLEX, CBC and GLPK. By default, it is set to the first one which
  is enabled and succesfully discovered.

-DGLPK_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY
-DCOIN_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY
-DILOG_ROOT_DIR=DIRECTORY

  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.