Getting started with Gurobi in Microsoft Visual Studio
A guide on how to get up and running with Gurobi , a powerful software tool that is well suited to finding solutions to tough optimization problems encountered in industry and academic research. In addition to finding good solutions within practical time scales, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how easy it was easy to use and configure within Microsoft Visual Studio. To apply the Gurobi tools to optimization problems, the developer simply makes calls to Gurobi Application Program Interfaces (APIs) at the appropriate places in the code, tweaking them to suit the application area. The following steps demonstrate how to achieve this for a mixed integer programming problem: 1. Install & Licence Gurobi Run the Gurobi installer file. At the time of writing this post, I installed 32-bit version of Gurobi 6.5.0, using the straightforward 'vanilla' installation: ... thereby installing Gurobi, and it's contents to a default location: 2. Create a new...