Installing OR-Tools for .Net from Binary on MacOS

 Introduction

This guide explains how to install OR-Tools for .Net on MacOS.

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

• MacOS 13.0.1 (Ventura) Intel 64-bit (x86_64)
• MacOS 13.0.1 (Ventura) M1 (arm64)

Prerequisites

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

Xcode Command Line Tools

You must install the Xcode Command Line Tools. To do so, open the Terminal, found in /Applications/Utilities/, and enter:

xcode-select --install

Click “Install” to download and install Xcode Command Line Tools. You don’t need to "Get Xcode" from the App Store. If you have a slow Internet connection, it may take many minutes.

Verify that you’ve successfully installed Xcode Command Line Tools:

xcode-select -p

You should see:

/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools

Homebrew

To install the remaining prerequisites, we recommend first installing the "missing package manager for macOS" otherwise known as Homebrew. To do so, open a terminal window and enter:

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
brew update

To verify that you’ve successfully installed brew:

brew --version

You should see:

Homebrew 1.6.9-8-g25542d7
Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision 0e0c84; last commit 2018-06-20)

.Net 6.0 SDK

You must install the .Net 6.0 SDK.

Once you have installed Homebrew, you can install the dotnet-sdk package by opening a terminal window and enter:

brew cask install dotnet-sdk

You can test dotnet cli is correctly installed using the following command:

dotnet --info

Installing OR-Tools

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

Download and extract the binary distribution for your system:

• MacOS Intel
• MacOS M1

Validate your installation

To test your .Net 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.