Re: MathProg, glpk and C language

> I am trying to write a function in ANCI C programming language. The
> aim of this function is to get some input arguments from the main C
> program, then solve a MIP problem and return the value of objective
> function along with the values of structural variables back to the C
> main program.
> The issue is that the MIP problem I am about to solve via glpk has a
> quite large number of variables. So, I am not able to hard-code them.
> Hence, I came across the idea to use MathProg language, as it is very
> easy to code my model. 
> The question is, how to do this? Is it possible to incorporate
> MathProg code inside a C language function? Please note that I am
> aware of how to write a C program that calls API routines of glpk in
> order to solve a simple model, but here I am not referring to this
> case.
> Any suggestion of a site, pdf or relevant document will be very
> helpful.

Please see Section 3.2 "Routines for processing MathProg models" in the
glpk reference manual (file glpk.pdf can be found in the subdirectory
'doc' in every glpk distribution tarball).