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 2017 or Visual Studio Community 2017
Visual Studio
To install and run OR-Tools on Windows, you must have Visual Studio 2017 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:
FlatZinc binary distributions
FlatZinc is a solver input language understood by a
wide range of solvers.
OR-Tools also provides binary distributions with FlatZinc support:
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:
tools\make test_cc
This runs a selection of examples for OR-Tools. If all the examples run successfully, you are ready to get started with OR-Tools.