Re: [Help-glpk] glpk 4.61 release information

[Heinrich Schuchardt]

Hello Andrew,

thank you for the new release.

Unfortunately in w32/glpk_4_61.def, w64/glpk_4_61.def,
w32/glpk_4_61_stdcall.def glp_config is missing.

Best regards

Heinrich Schuchardt

On 01/22/2017 02:16 PM, Andrew Makhorin wrote:
> GLPK 4.61 Release Information *****************************
> 
> Release date: January 22, 2017
> 
> GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving
> large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear
> programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of
> routines written in ANSI C89 and organized as a callable library.
> 
> In this release:
> 
> An option was added to build a re-entrant version of the package
> suitable for running in a multi-threaded environment. This option
> is enabled by default on configuring the package if the compiler
> used supports the thread local storage class specifier (e.g.
> _Thread_local or __thread). Thanks to David Monniaux
> <address@hidden> for suggestion and Chris Matrakidis
> <address@hidden> for configure.ac patch.
> 
> A re-entrant version of the package allows running multiple 
> independent instances of glpk in different threads of a multi- 
> threaded application. Note that glpk is not thread-safe by design,
> so if the application calls glpk routines from multiple threads, no
> thread may access glpk program objects (glp_prob, glp_tree, etc.)
> created by other threads; besides, each thread before termination
> should call the API routine glp_free_env to prevent memory leak.
> 
> A DLL support was added. Thanks to Heinrich Schuchardt 
> <address@hidden> for contribution.
> 
> Some changes were made to allow compiling the package using stdcall
> calling convention (this is needed only for compiling GLPK with
> MSVC to run under MS Windows).
> 
> See GLPK web page at <http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html>.
> 
> GLPK distribution can be ftp'ed from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/>
> or from some mirror ftp sites; see
> <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>.
> 
> MD5 check-sum is the following:
> 
> 3ce3e224a8b6e75a1a0b378445830f21 *glpk-4.61.tar.gz
> 
> GLPK is also available as a Debian GNU/Linux package. See its web
> page at <http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/glpk-utils>.
> 
> Precompiled GLPK binaries (lib, dll, exe) for 32- and 64-bit MS
> Windows can be downloaded from <http://winglpk.sourceforge.net/>.
> 
> 
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