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

This guide provides instructions for installing Google's OR-Tools for C++ development on various Linux distributions, specifically focusing on the x86_64 architecture.
Before installing OR-Tools, ensure you have the necessary C++ development tools installed by following the distribution-specific commands provided.
Download the pre-built binary distribution of OR-Tools for your Linux distribution and extract it to a desired location.
Validate your OR-Tools installation by running the provided test suite using the make test command within the extracted directory.

Introduction

This guide explains how to install OR-Tools for C++ on Linux.

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 7 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
Debian SID 64-bit (x86_64)
Debian 11 (bullseye) 64-bit (x86_64)
Fedora 38 64-bit (x86_64)
Fedora 37 64-bit (x86_64)
OpenSuse Leap 64-bit (x86_64)
Ubuntu 24.10 64-bit (x86_64)
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit (x86_64)

Prerequisites

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

C++ tools

To install C++ tools, open a terminal window and enter:

Alpine

apk add alpine-sdk linux-headers cmake lsb-release-minimal

Centos

sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
sudo yum install -y pkgconfig redhat-lsb-core

Debian

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake lsb-release

Fedora

sudo dnf groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
sudo dnf install -y gcc-c++ cmake redhat-lsb-core

Fedora

sudo dnf groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
sudo dnf install -y gcc-c++ cmake redhat-lsb-core

OpenSUSE

sudo zypper refresh
sudo zypper install -y git gcc11 gcc11-c++ lsb-release

Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake lsb-release

Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake lsb-release

Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y build-essential cmake lsb-release

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 terminal window 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.