Dependencies install

Antares Simulator depends on some mandatory libraries.

• Sirius Solver (fork from RTE)
• OR-Tools-RTE (patches & builds Google OR-Tools) (Only for the complete Antares Simulator solution with GUI)
• minizip library, with its dependency zlib
• Boost libraries: header libraries and boost-test library

We favor using vcpkg for building and installing most of those dependencies, see build instructions which explain how it integrates with CMake build. However, we still have a few exceptions that must be installed in a different way, see next sections.

Although not encouraged, it's still possible to install those dependencies yourself and add their installation path to your CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.

OR-Tools

OR-Tools may be installed in one of 2 ways:

1. As a pre-compiled dependency

   You can download a precompiled OR-Tools archive that contains headers & static libraries.

   Please note that dynamic linking with OR-Tools is only supported in Linux.

   Decompress the archive, and provide its path as a CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.

2. As part of the build

   You may enable the BUILD_ORTOOLS configuration option to build it from source during Antares build, as documented in build instructions.

   The drawback of this second approach is that OR-Tools may need to be built again when you run again a cmake configure step, therefore it's not advised for developers.