[SCIP] Support with setting up SCIP on Windows 7

[Benjamin Müller]

Dear Nils,

we are sorry for the late answer.

SCIPOptSuite-6.0.0-win64-VS15.exe should contain everything that you 
need for solving MINLPs in the interactive shell (where did you read 
that it is not sufficient?). Yes, ZIMPL is not included in the 
installer. Compiling ZIMPL with Visual Studio is quite stressful because 
it requires that you compile other packages, like MPIR and PCRE, on your 
own. It should be more comfortable with MinGW and msys, but we don't 
give official support for that.

I would suggest that we continue with private e-mails and afterward 
report to the mailing list the solution to your problems.

Best,
Benny

On 12/6/18 4:22 PM, Tuschik, Nils wrote:
> Dear ZIB team,
> 
> In order to use SCIP at my institute, I have to install it on a Windows 
> 7 x64 machine. I have read that for solving MINLP’s in general, 
> downloading and installing SCIPOptSuite-6.0.0-win64-VS15.exe is not 
> sufficient. I have also read that ZIMPL is also not included here. 
> Please correct me if I’m wrong.
> 
> With my current install of SCIPOptSuite-6.0.0-win64-VS15.exe I can’t 
> even do the tutorial for the interactive shell 
> (https://scip.zib.de/doc/html/SHELL.php), because downloading the 
> instance stein27 from the MIPLIB 3.0 homepage gives an error 404.
> 
> So, I think I have to download the SCIP Optimization Suite archive and 
> compile it myself. In order to do that, I have tried to find help in the 
> official documentation. As recommenced, I installed CMake (Windows 
> win64-x64 Installer). Now the documentation is full of commands, but 
> CMake as I installed on my system does have a GUI.
> Nevertheless, I tried to build the binaries with it, but packages are 
> missing and I really don’t know how to exactly add them. So, I also 
> tried to do it with mingw and msys which seemed promising, since online 
> tutorials helped me out.  But I got stuck here, too.
> I also took a look into the INSTALL file. In the archive of this mailing 
> list, I found two requests regarding Windows so far, neither of which 
> answered my questions. Same for the FAQ.
> 
> Long story short, I'm struggling to understand how I can do the 
> installation. There seem to be many ways of doing it, so that I feel 
> kind of lost and don’t really know, where to start. I am obviously not 
> an expert.
> 
> I understand, here you can’t really give in-depth instructions on how to 
> setup my individual system, but maybe someone does have a step by step 
> guide, as https://scip.zib.de/workshop2014/scip_install.pdf is also 
> outdated, according to a previous reply by Matthias.
> 
> Or maybe there is even a seminary planned, or someone of your team could 
> spend some time to help me set it up in person?
> 
> If not, I would also appreciate it, if you could send me more helpful 
> weblinks, that I maybe have not found yet.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance, kind regards,
> 
> Nils Tuschik
> 
> 
> 
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