Installing Google or-tools with gradle project on Windows 10 (Intellij IDEA)

Question

Is it possible to install the library on IntelliJ Idea?

or do I have to use Visual Studio 2017?

If so, how do I install it? I find the google documentation conf

Answer 1

We provide prebuilt binaries archives cf https://developers.google.com/optimization/install/java/windows#installing-or-tools so you don't need visual studio to only consume it...

Then to use it in Gradle you'll need to extract the lib/com.google.ortools.jar, lib/protobuf.jar, the JNI file jniortools.dll which may also depends on the ortools.lib.

Take a look at the Makefile rule rjava to know the parameters to set and try to add it to your gradle project...

Something like this:

javac -d output_dir -cp lib/com.google.ortools.jar;lib/protobuf.jar YourFile.java
java -Djava.library.path=lib -cp output_dir;lib/com.google.ortools.jar;lib/protobuf.jar YourFile

So you must know how class path and java library path are managed in Gradle....