Using OR-Tools NuGet for .Net

 Introduction

This guide gets you started with OR-Tools in .Net with a simple working example.

Although these instructions might also work on other Linux variants, we have only tested them on machines meeting the following requirements:

  • Alpine Edge 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Centos Stream 8 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Centos 7 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Debian 11 (bullseye) 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Debian 10 (buster) 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Fedora 36 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Fedora 35 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Fedora 34 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Fedora 33 64-bit (x86_64)
  • OpenSuse Leap 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Ubuntu 22.10 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)

Prerequisites

The following sections describe the prerequisites for installing OR-Tools.

.Net Core SDK >= 3.1

Next, install the .Net Core SDK version 3.1 or higher. To do so, open a terminal window and enter:

Alpine

apk add dotnet6-sdk
    
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-alpine

Centos

sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-rhel#supported-distributions

Centos

sudo rpm -Uvh https://packages.microsoft.com/config/centos/7/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm
sudo yum install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-centos#centos-7

Debian

Before you install .NET, run the following commands to add the Microsoft package signing key to your list of trusted keys and add the package repository.

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/11/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debian

Debian

Before you install .NET, run the following commands to add the Microsoft package signing key to your list of trusted keys and add the package repository.

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/debian/10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb
rm packages-microsoft-prod.deb

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-debian

Fedora

sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora

Fedora

sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora

Fedora

sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora

Fedora

sudo dnf install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-fedora

OpenSUSE

Before you install .NET, run the following commands to add the Microsoft package signing key to your list of trusted keys and add the package repository.

sudo zypper install libicu
sudo rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc
wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/opensuse/15/prod.repo
sudo mv prod.repo /etc/zypp/repos.d/microsoft-prod.repo
sudo chown root:root /etc/zypp/repos.d/microsoft-prod.repo

Then you can install the .Net SDK using the following command:

sudo zypper install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-opensuse

Ubuntu

sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu

Ubuntu

sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu

Ubuntu

sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu

Ubuntu

sudo apt install -y dotnet-sdk-6.0
ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/install/linux-ubuntu

Get the .Net example code

The example code is located in the dotnet_or-tools repo.

  1. Download the repo as a zip file and unzip it, or clone the repo:

    git clone -b v9.6 --depth 1 https://github.com/or-tools/dotnet_or-tools

  2. Change to the examples directory:

    cd dotnet_or-tools

Build the example

From the dotnet_or-tools directory:

Build the project using:

dotnet build -C Release

Run the example

From the dotnet_or-tools directory:

Run the binary using:

dotnet run -C Release

Congratulations! You've just run an application with OR-Tools, you are ready to get started with OR-Tools.