Why libsoplex + libsoplex-pic?

[jacobsvante]

I'm wondering why there's two files, libsoplex.a and libsoplex-pic.a?

Shouldn't PIC be specified as an option to cmake / the compiler? Or am I misunderstanding something?

[leoneifler]

SoPlex creates both by default, and the -pic one is created, since it can be linked into shared libraries.

[jacobsvante]

Okay, thanks.

I can't find any documentation describing what the differences are between the library files created. What's the difference between libsoplex.a and libsoplexshared.so more than that one is static and one is dynamic?

[leoneifler]

libsoplexshared is the library for the C-interface of SoPlex (not c++). For your goal of a completely static SCIP you will not need that one (it is used for the soplex python+julia interfaces)

[jacobsvante]

Thanks for the clarification 👍