This file describes how to install the or-tools python binary archive. OR-Tools is located at https://developers.google.com/optimization These modules have been tested under: - Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 up (64-bit). - Mac OS X El Capitan with Xcode 7.x (64 bit). - Microsoft Windows with Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 (64-bit) Upon decompressing the archive, you will get the following structure: or-tools/ LICENSE-2.0.txt <- Apache License check_python_deps.py <- Python script to check the dependencies README <- This file data/ <- Data for the examples. examples/ <- Python examples ortools/ <- ortools package algorithms/ <- Directory containing non-graph algorithms. constraint_solver/ <- The main directory for the constraint library. graph/ <- Graph algorithms. linear_solver/ <- Linear solver wrapper. To install the package : 1/Open the Makefile. 2/In the following lines of the Makefile, add the version of Python you are using and set the UNIX_PYTHONPATH variable to the value of PYTHONPATH. 3/Save the file. 4/Run these command : make install This will check the ortools module dependecies. You still can do it by running: make check 5/Once this is done, you can run the samples in the examples/ directory : make rpy EX=examples/python/hidato_table.py