NLopt manual - NLopt Documentation (original) (raw)

Welcome to the manual for NLopt, our nonlinear optimization library. The manual is divided into a the following sections:

• NLopt Introduction — overview of the library and the problems that it solves
• NLopt Installation — installation instructions
• NLopt Tutorial — some simple examples in C, Fortran, and Octave/Matlab
• NLopt Reference — reference manual, listing the NLopt API functions
• NLopt Algorithms — the optimization algorithms available in NLopt (including literature citations and links to original source code, where available)
• NLopt License and Copyright — legal information