CT Software & Hardware

Teaching medium:

• Gecode: a C++ finite-domain constraint library (free, open-source)
  • You can use Gecode on the Unix / Solaris computers of the IT department
  • Download Gecode to your own machine:
    • Preferably use the pre-compiled binaries (available for Linux/x86, Mac OS X, and Windows)
    • Installation help
    • We do not provide any support for installing Gecode on your own machine
  • How to program, compile, link, and execute a Gecode model (you must read this document as soon as possible!)

Other recommended solvers for the assignments and projects:

• SICStus Prolog: a logic programming system including a finite-domain constraint library (commercial, installed on Unix computers at the IT department: use /it/sw/prolog/bin/sicstus). See Section 10.34 of the documentation. The CLPFD library is loaded by the query ?- use_module(library(clpfd))., and the location of the example files is displayed by the query ?- absolute_file_name(library('clpfd/examples'), A).

• FaCiLe: a finite-domain constraint library for OCaml, a functional programming language (free, GNU LGPL).

See also our list of solvers and Roman Barták's list of solvers, both commercial and free ones.