Compiling Minotaur on Linux

First install wget, g++, gfortran, pkg-config (pkgconf), make, cmake, and lapack (libatlas-dev) on your computer. These are readily available on Linux distributions. Then open a terminal and clone or update the source code. To clone the GitHub repository of Minotaur, do:

git clone https://github.com/coin-or/minotaur minotaur
cd minotaur
git pull

'minotaur' directory should have the LICENSE and README.md files. Once you are in this directory, run the following commands to compile all third-party libraries.

cd third-party
./build_third_party -j NCPUS

where NCPUS is the number of CPUs on your computer. If all libraries are compiled, change back to the Minotaur directory and run these commands to compile Minotaur:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DTHIRD_PARTY_PATH:PATH=../third-party/ ..
make install -j NCPUS

where NCPUS is the number of CPUs in your computer. It will build the solvers in the bin/ directory and libraries lib/ directory.

Compiling Minotaur on Windows

Minotaur can be compiled using MSYS2 . MSYS2 provides Linux-like tools for compiling and linking binaries.

1. Install MSYS2 on Windows.

2. Launch a MinGW 64-bit terminal from the start menu. Update the installed packages.

pacman -Syu

3. If packages were upgraded, close the shell, again open MinGW 64-bit terminal and run the above command again. Keep repeating this cycle until no more updates are installed.

4. Install additional packages for compiling C++ and Fortran as follows.

pacman -S git mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc-fortran mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake cmake pkg-config wget autoconf make perl mingw-w64-x86_64-make tar ca-certificates

5. Get Minotaur from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/coin-or/minotaur.git minotaur

6. Change the directory to third-party

cd minotaur/third-party

7. Compile third-party libraries that are required by Minotaur. This step takes a long time, as it compiles ASL, CLP, LAPACK, IPOPT, CPPUNIT, etc. The -j4 option tells the script to compile in parallel using 4 CPUs. Adjust this number to the number on your computer.

./build_third_party -s -f -b -w -j4

8. Check that there is now an include, a bin, and a lib folder inside the third-party directory. Finally, compile Minotaur in a new directory different from third-party.

cd ..
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DTHIRD_PARTY_PATH=${HOME}/minotaur/third-party/ -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF -DUSE_FILTERSQP:BOOL=OFF ..
make
make install

9. You should now see several binaries in the bin/ folder of the build directory. Each of them is a solver. Library files should be seen in the lib/ folder of the build directory. The above procedure installs Minotaur without FilterSQP and BQPD solvers.