AMPL Installation Wizard#

Here are instructions to add Gurobi Solver to an existing AMPL installation on macOS:

  1. Determine the directory where AMPL is installed on your computer.

  2. Extract the contents of the supplied Gurobi Solver file. Extraction is done with the following command:

    tar xvfz amplgurobilink11.0.1_mac64.tar.gz

    The file name should be adjusted to reflect the actual archive file. Extraction will produce a subdirectory called ampl, which contains the Gurobi Solver software.

  3. Copy the extracted files inside the ampl subdirectory to the directory where AMPL is installed on your computer.

  4. To allow the AMPL-Gurobi executable files to be found when needed, ensure that the PATH environment variable includes the AMPL installation directory. Assuming that AMPL is installed in /usr/local/bin, users of the bash shell would add the following to their .bashrc files:

    export PATH="${PATH}:/usr/local/bin"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/bin"

    And users of the csh shell would add the following to their .cshrc files:

    setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:/usr/local/bin

    If LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not already set, you would use the following instead:

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/bin"

    or

    setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/bin

  5. Open a terminal prompt and type the command:

    fingerprint -o fp.out

    This will generate a fingerprint file named fp.out. To request your license key (after we have received your payment or a Gurobi sales representative has approved your request to evaluate AMPL), email the fp.out file to license@gurobi.com.

  6. When you receive your license key, simply copy the license key file to the installation directory or any other directory in your PATH.

  7. If you are configuring a floating license server for AMPL-Gurobi, please follow the additional instructions for ampl_lic.