Installing OR-Tools for Java from Binary on Windows

AI-generated Key Takeaways

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

• Prerequisites include Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2022 (x64), a 64-bit Java JDK 8.0 or later, and a 64-bit Maven installation.

• Installation involves downloading and extracting the OR-Tools binary distribution for Visual Studio 2022 and validating the installation by running the provided test command.

• Successful installation enables users to proceed with utilizing OR-Tools for their Java projects, as detailed in the linked introductory resources.

 Introduction

This guide explains how to install OR-Tools for Java 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

Note: OR-Tools only provides archives for the x86_64 (also known as amd64) architecture.

Prerequisites

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

Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable

You must have the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2022 (select the x64 version) installed on your computer, since OR-Tools library for Java is a wrapper for the C++ native library.

Java JDK

You must also have a Java JDK 64 bit, version 8.0 or later installed.

You can find more details here.

Maven

You must also have a Maven 64 bit installed.

You can find more details here.

Installing OR-Tools

Take the following steps to install the OR-Tools library for Java:

Download and extract the binary distribution for your system:

• Visual Studio 2022

Validate your installation

To test your Java 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

This runs a selection of examples for OR-Tools. If all the examples run successfully, you are ready to get started with OR-Tools.