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COOOL：CWP面向对象最优化库（CWP Object Oriented Optimization Library） COOOL是C++类的一个集合

This is the revised version of COOOL, the CWP Object-Oriented 
Optimization Library. COOOL is a collection of C++ class libraries for
handling mathematical optimization problems. The library was inspired
by UGA (Uniprocessor Genetic Algorithm) written by Martin Smith and
Terri L. Fischer.

The installation the package is easy, the master Makefile should
install the whole thing from the unpacked directory tree. 
The revised version of COOOL is tested under gcc 2.7.0, it should also
work with older versions of gcc.

**IMPORTANT** Please read Makefile.config and make appropriate changes
according to your system before installing the package. If your
machine does not use GNUmake, you MUST edit Makefile.config and
comment out certain lines as indicated in this file.

After un-tarring the code, you need to define an environment variable, 
COOOLROOT, which should be the path where COOOL is going to be installed.
For example, if you put the package under the directory,
/usr/local/coool, you might want to define:

	setenv COOOLROOT /usr/local/coool.

Then, go into $COOOLROOT/src and just do make. There will be three
directory-trees created, namely $COOOLROOT/include, 
$COOOLROOT/lib, $COOOLROOT/man.
In order to use the man pages provided by COOOL, you also need to define 
MANPATH. For example,

	setenv MANPATH :/usr/local/coool/man.

Because the changing standard of the current compiler, you may see
many warning messages while compiling, such as "conversion to the same
type will never use a type conversion operator ..." Ignore them!!

For cleaning up all files created by make, do "make distclean" under
$COOOLROOT.

The package should be mostly transportable for different platforms.
There is only one file in COOOL, SlaveForward in src/lib/objfcns,
which requires system calls and is not completely transportable. We
provide four versions: .AIX, .IRIX, .Linux and .NEXT. When installing
the COOOL package, the Makefile detects the machine type and set up a
symbolic link from the appropriate SlaveForward file to
SlaveForward.cc. For those systems that don't have command "uname"
(e.g. NEXT), you might need to set up the link by yourself. If you get
this running on another machine, please let us know.

We appreciate any bug reports, comments or suggestions. Any questions or
complaints can be directed to [e-mail]