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 The latest release and a complete manual may be found at the NLopt
7 home page: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/nlopt
9 It is compiled and installed with the standard GNU autoconf/automake
16 (See `./configure --help` or the `INSTALL` file for other options.)
18 Once it is installed, `#include <nlopt.h>` in your C/C++ programs and
19 link it with `-lnlopt -lm`. You may need to use the C++ compiler to link
20 in order to include the C++ libraries (which are used internally by NLopt,
21 even though it has a C API).
23 The minimization function, `nlopt_minimize`, is described in the [man
24 page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page) (`api/nlopt_minimize.3`,
25 which is installed by `make install`.
27 There are also interfaces for Fortran, Python, Matlab, Octave, OCaml,
28 GNU Guile, GNU R, Lua, and Julia. Interfaces for other languages may
29 be added in the future.