[SCIP] Installing SCIP on Windows with ZIMPL, SoPlex, Ipopt

[Simon QV]

Dear ZIB team,

I'd like to use the SCIP optimisation suite to solve MINLIP problems (and
probably some LPs), and would like it to be linked to the defaults SoPlex
and ZIMPL.

I'm using a win64 machine with Windows 10. I'm struggling to fully
understand how to best do the installation.

The binary that's available for download doesn't have ZIMPL integrated it
seems.

After a while I found Matthias' slide set
https://scip.zib.de/workshop2014/scip_install.pdf and thought maybe the
next easiest option would be to install it under cygwin (following the
slide set).

I understand I can select packages in the cygwin setup - is that where I'm
supposed to get zlib, gmp, readline, and pcre?

I also need Ipopt, which I downloaded as a tar-ball from the coin-or
website, and then tried to install under cygwin. However, for the
installtion to work I first need things like BLAS, ASL..

I'm not a computer scientist and I found this to be very confusing and time
consuming to read in various forums and collect bits and pieces of
information on how to put the software together. Given that I'm still far
from installing the optimisation suite, and don't know how many
dependencies I'm yet to encounter, I thought I'd pause and ask for your
advice.

1. Am I following the straightforward path to obtain the software
configuration I want?

2. Is there a more detailed description of how to install the defaults on
my operating system? Apologies if I missed it.

3. Could you please help me understand which packages/libraries I need for
what, and how to install them? Do I select them in cygwin, or download
source code (to which directory?), and run it from cygwin with "make
install"?

Thank you so much for your help!

All the best,
Simon
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