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Date:Mon Sep 15 17:31:58 2003 
Subject:Re: Poplog Dll & Other Issues 
From:Richard 
Volume-ID:1030915.01 

>
> On a different, but related, topic do you (or anyone else) have a library
> for solving Linear Programming problems? That is, optimising some
> quantity which is linearly dependent on other quantities, subject to
> (linear) constraints on those other quantities.
>
> As an example:
>   maximise chocolate consumption, subject to the constraints that:
>
>  total calories less than 2000,
>  calories from fat less than 40%
>  calories from protein at least 12%
>
>  available foods are chocolate, peanuts, rice and fish fingers
> (and compositional data would be available).
>
> This example is stricly hypothetical, of course.
>
> My guess is that there are some free Fortran or C libraries for doing
> this? I'm wondering if you've come across any, since you've expressed
> interest in linking various other libraries into poplog in the past.
>
> Jonathan
>

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/otc/Guide/faq/linear-programming-faq.html

The link above has numerous pointers to software for LP work. Some of the
software is standalone while others are code that can be linked in and some
are compiled into DLL's. I have not tried any of the packages