Installation for Use With Microsoft Visual C++

Download and unpack the archive SYMPHONY-releases.5.7.1-XXX.zip in an appropriate installation directory, such as C: $\bgroup\color{brown}$ \backslash$\egroup$ Program Files (x86) $\bgroup\color{brown}$ \backslash$\egroup$ SYMPHONY.

Test the executable by opening Windows Explorer and double-click on symphony.exe in the bin directory in the folder in which the distribution was unpacked. This should open a Window in which the interactive solver will appear. Type help or ? to see a list of available commands or see Chapter 3 for instructions on using the interactive solver.

To test the callable library, the distribution includes sample codes along with associated project files in the examples directory.

milp.c: This sample code is an implementation of a basic MILP solver using SYMPHONY's C callable functions with user defined input (see Section 3.3). To build and test the code, open the SYMPHONY MSVC++ solution file and build the project milp, as described below in the next section.