Mac OS file organization

The following files and directories are created in your installation directory (typically /Library/gurobi560/mac64):

  • EULA.pdf - Gurobi End User License Agreement - PDF format
  • ReleaseNotes.html - release notes
  • bin
    • grb_cs - Gurobi Compute Server executable
    • grb_csw - Gurobi Compute Server executable
    • grb_ts - Gurobi Token Server executable
    • grbgetkey - retrieves your Gurobi license key from the Gurobi key server
    • grbprobe - probes system details (typically not used)
    • grbtune - parameter tuning tool
    • gurobi.env - sample parameter initialization file
    • gurobi.sh - starts the Gurobi interactive shell
    • gurobi_cl - simple command-line binary
  • docs
    • examples - Example Tour - HTML (open index.html in this directory)
    • examples.pdf - Example Tour - PDF
    • quickstart - Quick Start guide - HTML (open index.html in this directory)
    • quickstart.pdf - Quick Start guide - PDF
    • refman - Reference Manual - HTML (open index.html in this directory)
    • refman.pdf - Reference Manual - PDF
  • examples
    • build - Makefile for C, C++, Java, and Python examples
    • c - source code for C examples
    • c# - source code for C# examples (for Windows)
    • c++ - source code for C++ examples
    • data - data files for examples
    • java - source code for Java examples
    • matlab - source code for MATLAB examples
    • python - source code for Python examples
    • R - source code for R examples
    • vb - source code for Visual Basic examples (for Windows)
  • include
    • gurobi_c.h - C include file
    • gurobi_c++.h - C++ include file
  • lib
    • gurobi.jar - Java interface
    • gurobi.py - Python startup file
    • gurobipy - Python files used by the interactive shell and the Python interface (no need to look inside this directory)
    • libGurobiJni56.jnilib - Java JNI wrapper
    • libgurobi56.so - Gurobi native library (used by all interfaces)
    • libgurobi_c++.a - C++ interface (symbolic link)
    • libgurobi_g++4.2.a - C++ interface
  • matlab - Gurobi MATLAB interface
  • R - R Gurobi package
  • setup.py - Python setup file - used by the installer to install the gurobipy module into your Python environment

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