NLoptNet for Mac

[arpastrana]

Hi, more of a newbie question here. Are NLoptNet's .dll files compiled and ready to use in Mac OS our would I need to do so on my computer? Thanks in advance!

[BrannonKing]

I don't have them compiled or included for MacOS at the moment. Now that we have things like netstandard2.0 I should probably update this library with various platform targets.

[arpastrana]

That would be great! Just to clarify, does that mean that as it is now, NLOptNet cannot be used on Mac until the multi-platform target update you mention is made?

[BrannonKing]

The C# portion should work in general. Take the three *.cs files and put them into your project. Modify the "nlopt.dll" to just be "nlopt" (or whatever your shared library is named). Remove the LoadLibrary calls; you would need to have the shared libraries available next to your executable. You could compile or download them yourself.

[arpastrana]

Thank you, I will try that. Closing this issue in the meantime.

[BrannonKing]

@arpastrana , it would be feasible to add this now that we have the .net core stuff working well with various platforms. If you still need this, let me know.

[arpastrana]

@BrannonKing Thanks for keeping this thread in your radar! I don't need this feature anymore at this time, but perhaps another person will eventually? Good day.

[BrannonKing]

I'm reopening this as it probably should be done. The nlopt.so file can be cross-compiled to target MacOS. It could then be added to the runtimes folder.

[arpastrana]

In that case, I am going to stay tuned for the release!