Architecture

A GLPK for Java application will consist of the following

  • the GLPK library
  • the GLPK for Java JNI library
  • the GLPK for Java class library
  • the application code.

as shown in the chart:

Application Layers

GLPK library

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is a solver for solving linear programming and mixed integer programming problems. It is maintained by Andrew Makhorin. The homepage of GLPK is http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/. The source distribution of GLPK contains the documentation for all provided functions and constants in file doc/glpk.pdf.

Source

The source code to compile the GLPK library is provided at ftp://gnu.ftp.org/gnu/glpk/.

Linux

The GLPK library can be compiled from source code. Follow the instructions in file INSTALL provided in the source distribution. Precompiled packages are available in many Linux distributions.

The usual installation path for the library is /usr/local/lib/libglpk.so.

Windows

The GLPK library can be compiled from source code. The build and make files are in directory w32 for 32 bit Windows and in w64 for 64 bit Windows. The name of the created library is glpk_4_65.dll for revision 4.65.

A precompiled version of GLPK is provided at http://sourceforge.net/projects/winglpk/.

The library has to be in the search path for binaries. Either copy the library to a directory that is already in the path (e.g. C:\windows\system32) or update the path in the system settings of Windows.

GLPK for Java JNI library

Source

The source code to compile the GLPK for Java JNI library is provided at http://sourceforge.net/projects/glpk-java/.

Linux

The GLPK for Java JNI library can be compiled from source code. Follow the instructions in file INSTALL provided in the source distribution.

The usual installation path for the library is /usr/local/lib/libglpk-java.so.

Windows

The GLPK for Java JNI library can be compiled from source code. The build and make files are in directory w32 for 32 bit Windows and in w64 for 64 bit Windows. The name of the created library is glpk_4_65_java.dll for revision 4.65.

A precompiled version of GLPK for Java is provided at http://sourceforge.net/projects/winglpk/.

The JNI library has to be in the search path for binaries. Either copy the library to a directory that is already in the path (e.g. C:\windows\system32) or update the path in the system settings of Windows.

GLPK for Java class library

The source code to compile the GLPK for Java class library is provided at http://sourceforge.net/projects/glpk-java/.

Linux

The GLPK for Java class library can be compiled from source code. Follow the instructions in file INSTALL provided in the source distribution.

The usual installation path for the library is /usr/local/share/java/glpk-java.jar.

For Debian and Ubuntu the following packages are needed for compilation:

  • libtool
  • swig
  • openjdk-6-jdk (or a higher version)

Windows

The GLPK for Java class library can be compiled from source code. The build and make files are in directory w32 for 32 bit Windows and in w64 for 64 bit Windows. The name of the created library is glpk-java.jar.

A precompiled version of GLPK including GLPK-Java is provided at http://sourceforge.net/projects/winglpk/.

Classpath

The JNI library has to be in the classpath. The classpath can be either specified by an enverionment variable CLASSPATH or upon invocation of the application, e.g.

java -classpath ./glpk-java.jar;. MyApplication

In Windows environment variables can be set interactively with the command SET, e.g.

set CLASSPATH=.\glpk-java.jar;.

or in the system settings: open the control panel, select the entry "System", press the "Advanced System Settings" link, press the button "Environment Variables".

In Linux environment variables can be set interactively with the export statement, e.g.

in the system settings of Windows or via an export statement, e.g.

export CLASSPATH=./glpk-java.jar;.

or the same statement can be used in a shell file like ~/.bashrc.