Welcome

Welcome to the frequently asked questions of the or-tools library. If you have no idea what this library is about, read the foreword of the manual. If you have an interesting question that deserves to be added to this FAQ, please share it with the or-tools community.

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From time to time, we will add questions asked on the mailing list.

General questions about:

the documentation:

Questions on the documentation itself and on the documentation generation.

the installation and compilation:

How to compile the library? How to compile your own code? We try to answer common installation questions or at least to give you some links to the appropriate documentation.

the library:

General questions about the library.

the CP Solver:

General questions about the CP Solver engine.

the CP Routing Solver

General questions about the CP Routing Solver engine.

the Local Search algorithm

General questions about the way Local Search is implemented in or-tools.