Linprog and Clp under JuMP or MathOptInterface - Why is it so hard?

Specific Domains Optimization (Mathematical)
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Julia is working beautifully on an LP problem on my mac.

My optimisation problem is structured with inequality constraints and the sense vector:

sol = linprog(-f,A,sense,b,lb,ub,ClpSolver())

For some reason running the same code on Windows 10, I get an error:

ClpSolver is no longer supported. If you are using JuMP, upgrade to the latest version and use Clp.Optimizer instead. If you are using MathProgBase (e.g., via lingprog), you will need to upgrade to MathOptInterface (GitHub - jump-dev/MathOptInterface.jl: An abstraction layer for mathematical optimization solvers.).

Is there a simple way to take these matrices and get them to work under either of the options referred to in the error, using the matrices and vectors I have already created. I have spent the entire morning reading docs for this and am just confused. Some don’t use the sense vector, others I just don’t understand.

There must be a simple way to “upgrade” this previously working code, keeping it simple?

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The support for MathProgBase was just dropped in v0.8 that was released 16 hours ago. I guess you were using Clp.jl v0.7.2 on your mac.
The recommendation is to use JuMP now instead of linprog. From the input of linprog, you can do

using JuMP, Clp
model = Model(Clp.Optimizer)
@variable(model, lb[i] <= x[i=1:length(lb)] <= ub[i])
@objective(model, Max, f'x)
# Depending on the `sense` vector, you may need to split it into `<=` and `>=` constraints too
@constraint(model, A * x .== b)
optimize!(model)
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That’s great, thank you. Looks like my timing was perfect for learning LP in Julia.

I assume by “splitting” you mean I need two lines:

@constraint(model, A * x .<= b) #inequality constraints
@constraint(model, Aeq * x .== beq) #equality constraints

Where beq is just a vector of zeros, right?

The first line seems to process fine, but when Julia gets to the second one I get the following error…

julia> @constraint(model, Aeq * x .== beq)
ERROR: MethodError: no method matching zero(::Type{Any})

EDIT: Ahhh. Nevermind, my Aeq was Array{Any,2}.

Fixed with Float64.(Aeq)

Thanks again, much appreciated!