Getting started

Packages for Linux, macOS and Windows can be found in the releases or from the MiniZinc website.

These packages contain the MiniZinc IDE, the MiniZinc compiler toolchain, as well as several solvers.

For more detailed installation instructions, see the documentation.

Building from source

The MiniZinc IDE is a Qt project and requires:

A recent C++ compiler
Qt (we target the latest LTS Qt version)
- We also require the Qt WebSockets module
Make

Ensure you clone the repository including submodules:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/MiniZinc/MiniZincIDE
cd MiniZincIDE

Then either build open the project (MiniZincIDE.pro) in Qt Creator and build, or from the command line:

mkdir build
cd build
qmake -makefile ../MiniZincIDE/MiniZincIDE.pro
make -j4

See the MiniZinc compiler project for instructions on how to build the compiler toolchain.

The IDE has a test suite which can be compiled and run with:

mkdir test
cd test
qmake -makefile ../tests/tests.pro
make -j4
make check