Welcome to CoinHelp

CoinHelp tries to help users and project managers to find information about COIN-OR. Below are information for users of COIN-OR projects. Detailed information for project managers can be found here.

Information For Users

The COIN projects that these pages currently apply to are:

• Cops (Alps, BiCePS, Blis), Bonmin, Cbc, Cgl, Clp, CoinUtils, Dylp, FlopC++, Ipopt, Osi, Smi, SYMPHONY, Vol

For other projects, please go to the project page available from the ​COIN-OR projects page for more information.

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Precompiled Libraries and Executables

If you want to obtain precompiled binaries (executables and libraries), please go to the ​COIN binaries site. Only some of the packages are available in this way and only for some (common) platforms.

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Quick Download and Installation Guide

The quick download and installation guide? works in most cases if you don't have particular requirements.

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Detailed Information For Users

1. Understanding the Directory Structure
   1. Nomenclature
   2. Directory Structure For A COIN-OR Package
2. Downloading the Source Code
   1. Obtaining the Code Via Archive Files
   2. Obtaining the Code Using Subversion
      1. Getting Subversion
      2. Determining Version Number
      3. Downloading the Code
   3. Third Party Code
3. Preparing the Compilation
   1. Running the configure script
   2. Giving Options to the configure Script
      1. Command Line Arguments for configure
      2. Variable Arguments for configure
   3. Specifying Options in a config.site File
   4. Performing a VPATH Compilation
4. Compiling and Installing the Package
   1. Compiling the Code
   2. Testing the Compilation
   3. Installing the Executables, Libraries and Header Files
   4. Further Makefile Targets
5. 1. Doxygen Documentation
   2. Additional Help
6. Linking your Code with COIN-OR Libraries
7. Troubleshooting
   1. Problems During Downloading
      1. Using the correct version of subversion
   2. Problems During Configuration
      1. How to read the config.log file
      2. Be aware of environment variables
      3. Disabling the use of pkg-config
   3. Problems During Compilation
      1. Output of make
8. User Comments

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Additional Help

• Build and compilation problems: Troubleshooting page
• Frequently Asked Questions: ​FAQ page.
• All COIN-OR projects have a page available from the ​COIN-OR projects page.
• Mailing lists:
  • Project specific question: Most projects have their own ​mailing list. If available, use it for project specific issues.
  • General question: ​COIN-OR mailing list.
• Reporting bugs:
  • For download and installation: Go to the BuildTools Trac page and post a new ticket. Follow these ​instructions.
  • For a particular project: Go to the project Trac page (available from the ​COIN-OR projects page) and post a new ticket. Follow these ​instructions.
• Information for project managers.

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