Ceres Solver

Ceres Solver is an open source C++ library for modeling and solving large, complicated optimization problems. It is a feature rich, mature and performant library which has been used in production at Google since 2010. Ceres Solver can solve two kinds of problems.

1. Non-linear Least Squares problems with bounds constraints.
2. General unconstrained optimization problems.

Please see ceres-solver.org for more information.

Installation

Run:

$ npm i ceres-solver.cxx

And then include ceres.h as follows:

// main.cxx
#include <ceres.h>  // or, ceres/ceres.h

int main() { /* ... */ }

Finally, compile while adding the path node_modules/ceres-solver.cxx to your compiler's include paths.

$ clang++ -std=c++20 -I./node_modules/ceres-solver.cxx main.cxx  # or, use g++
$ g++     -std=c++20 -I./node_modules/ceres-solver.cxx main.cxx

You may also use a simpler approach with the cpoach tool, which automatically adds the necessary include paths of all the installed dependencies for your project.

$ cpoach clang++ -std=c++20 main.cxx  # or, use g++
$ cpoach g++     -std=c++20 main.cxx