Introduction
This guide explains how to install OR-Tools for C++ on Windows.
Although these instructions might also work on other Windows variants, we have only tested them on machines meeting the following requirements:
Windows 10 64-bit (x86_64) with:
- Microsoft Visual Studio Enterprise 2022
- Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022 Preview 2 or above
Prerequisites
The following sections describe the prerequisites for installing OR-Tools.
Visual Studio
To build and run OR-Tools on Windows, you must have Visual Studio 2022 or later installed on your computer with the C++ toolset for Visual Studio.
You can find more details here.
To build OR-Tools programs from the command line you must use a x64 Native Tools Command Prompt (not the Developer Command Prompt).
You can find more details here.
Installing OR-Tools
Take the following steps to install the OR-Tools library for C++:
Download and extract the binary distribution for your system:
Validate your installation
To test your C++ installations, open a x64 Native Tools Command Prompt and navigate to the directory where you unpacked the binary distribution. Then enter the following command:
make test
This runs a selection of examples for OR-Tools. If all the examples run successfully, you are ready to get started with OR-Tools.