PySCIPOpt requires a working installation of the SCIP Optimization Suite.
If SCIP is not installed in the global path you need to specify the install location using the
environment variable SCIPOPTDIR
:
- on Linux and OS X:
export SCIPOPTDIR=<path_to_install_dir>
- on Windows:
set SCIPOPTDIR=<path_to_install_dir>
SCIPOPTDIR
needs to have a subdirectory lib
that contains the library, e.g. libscip.so
(for Linux) and a subdirectory include
that contains the corresponding header files:
SCIPOPTDIR > lib > libscip.so ... > include > scip > lpi > nlpi > ...
If you are not using the installer packages, you need to install the SCIP Optimization Suite using CMake. The Makefile system is not compatible with PySCIPOpt!
On Windows it is highly recommended to use the Anaconda Python Platform.
pip install pyscipopt
On Windows you may need to ensure that the scip
library can be found at runtime by adjusting
your PATH
environment variable:
- on Windows:
set PATH=%PATH%;%SCIPOPTDIR%\bin
On Linux and OS X this is encoded in the generated PySCIPOpt library and therefore not necessary.
PySCIPOpt requires Cython, at least version 0.21 (pip install cython
).
Furthermore, you need to have the Python development files installed on your system (error
message "Python.h not found"):
sudo apt-get install python-dev # for Python 2, on Linux sudo apt-get install python3-dev # for Python 3, on Linux
After setting up SCIPOPTDIR
as specified above, please run
python setup.py install
You may use the additional options --user
or --prefix=<custom-python-path>
, to build
the interface locally.
To use debug information in PySCIPOpt you need to build it like this:
python setup.py install --debug
Be aware that you will need the debug library of the SCIP Optimization
Suite for this to work (cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
).