This file describes how to install the or-tools C++, java and .Net binary archive. OR-Tools is located at https://developers.google.com/optimization These modules have been tested under: - ubuntu 14.04 and up (32 and 64 bit). - Mac OS X El Capitan and up with xcode 4.x (64 bit). - Microsoft Visual studio 2013 and 2015 (32 and 64 bit). Upon decompressing the archive, you will get the following structure: or-tools/ LICENSE-2.0.txt <- Apache License README <- This file Makefile/ <- Main makefile for cpp examples/ <- C++, java and .Net examples lib/ lib/cpp/ <- directory containing the ortools complete libraries for cpp lib/java/ <- directory containing jar files and native libraries lib/csharp <- directory containing assemblies and native libraries include/ <- all include files objs/ <- directory containing C++ compiled object files (*.o) bin/ <- directory containing executable files ########################## C++ ########################### Use Makefile ########################## java ########################## Running the examples will involve compiling them, then running them. Let's compile and run examples/com/google/ortools/samples/RabbitsPheasants.java javac -d objs -cp lib/com.google.ortools.jar:lib/protobuf.jar examples/com/google/ortools/samples/RabbitsPheasants.java java -Djava.library.path=lib -cp objs:lib/com.google.ortools.jar com.google.ortools.samples.RabbitsPheasants ########################## .Net ########################## Running the examples will involve compiling them, then running them. Let's compile examples/csflow.cs and run it. on windows 32 bit: csc /target:exe /out:bin\csharp\csflow.exe /platform:x86 /lib:lib /r:Google.OrTools.dll examples\csharp\csflow.cs bin\csharp\csflow.exe on windows 64 bit: csc /target:exe /out:bin/csharp/csflow.exe /platform:x64 /lib:lib /r:Google.OrTools.dll examples\csflow.cs bin\csharp\csflow.exe On linux (mono comes from the distribution, on ubuntu at least) mcs /target:exe /out:bin/csharp/csflow.exe /platform:anycpu /lib:lib /r:Google.OrTools.dll examples/csharp/csflow.cs MONO_PATH=lib mono bin/csharp/csflow.exe On Mac OS X (mono is compiled under dependencies/install) dependencies\install\bin\mcs /target:exe /out:bin/csharp/csflow.exe /platform:anycpu /lib:lib /r:Google.OrTools.dll examples/csharp/csflow.cs MONO_PATH=lib dependencies\install\bin\mono bin/csharp/csflow.exe