1 NLopt is a library for nonlinear local and global optimization, for
2 functions with and without gradient information. It is designed as
3 as simple, unified interface and packaging of several free/open-source
4 nonlinear optimization libraries.
6 It is compiled and installed with the standard GNU autoconf/automake
11 (See './configure --help' or the INSTALL file for other options.)
13 Once it is installed, #include <nlopt.h> in your C/C++ programs and
14 link it with -lnlopt -lm. You may need to use the C++ compiler to link
15 in order to include the C++ libraries (which are used internally by NLopt,
16 even though it has a C API).
18 The minimization function, nlopt_minimize, is described in the man
19 page (api/nlopt_minimize.3, which is installed by 'make install'.
21 Interfaces for other languages may be added in the future.