GLPK/Visual Basic for Applications

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a scripting language used in Microsoft Office and software packages.

GLPK for Windows edit

GLPK for Windows provides multiple examples demonstrating calling the GLPK library with Visual Basic for Applications. It is licensed under GPL V3.

To run the examples follow the steps below:

  • Open Excel
  • Either press ALT+F11 or select menu entry Developer -> View code.
  • With menu entry File -> Import File import the modules.
  • In glpk.bas replace "glpk.dll" with the full path to the relevant dll. For version 4.63 this is:
    • w32/glpk_4_63_stdcall.dll for 32bit Windows,
    • w64/glpk_4_63.dll for 64bit Windows.
  • Press CTRL+G or select menu entry View -> Immediate Window.
  • Press F5 to run an example. The output is shown in the immediate window.
  • To run gmpl.bas call function gmpl_main passing the name of a GMPL model file as parameter.

References edit