Installing OR-Tools for Python from Binary on Windows

This guide provides instructions for installing Google's OR-Tools for Python on Windows 10 64-bit systems.
Prerequisites include having Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2022 (x64) and a compatible 64-bit Python version (3.8.x - 3.11.x) installed.
OR-Tools can be installed using pip with the command: python -m pip install ortools, preferably within a virtual environment.
Validation of the installation can be done by running python -c "import ortools; print(ortools.__version__)" in a x64 Native Tools Command Prompt.

Introduction

This guide explains how to install OR-Tools for Python 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:

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

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 Python is a wrapper for the C++ native library.

You must have one of the following versions of Python installed:

Then verify that you have pip 9.01 or higher available in your PATH:

python --version
python -c "import platform; print(platform.architecture()[0])"
python -m pip --version

Assuming the prerequisite software is installed on your Windows, take the following steps:

python -m pip install ortools

To uninstall OR-Tools, issue the following commands:

python -m pip uninstall ortools

To test your Python installations, open a x64 Native Tools Command Prompt. Then enter the following command:

python -c "import ortools; print(ortools.__version__)"

If it runs successfully, you are ready to get started with OR-Tools.