Installing OR-Tools for C++ from Binary on Windows

  • This guide provides instructions for installing OR-Tools for C++ on Windows 10 64-bit systems using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022.

  • Before installing, ensure you have Visual Studio 2022 or later with the C++ toolset and access to a x64 Native Tools Command Prompt.

  • Download and extract the OR-Tools binary distribution for Visual Studio 2022 from the provided link.

  • Validate your installation by running the make test command in the extracted directory, which executes example OR-Tools programs.

 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.