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Add arm64 cbc library to complement x86_64

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by inspecting how Python-MIP selects and packages the CBC shared library, especially the x86_64 path shown in the error. Verify the model-loading reproduction on an aarch64 Python 3.10 container; the work is done when CBC loads and the model is parsed and run on arm64.

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Description

Describe the bug
The arm64 (aarch64) server architecture is becoming more commonplace yet python-mip doesn't not work on these architectures.

To Reproduce
Try to run a model on aarch64.

Expected behavior
The model is parsed and run.

Error received

An error occurred while loading the CBC library:	 
cannot load library '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mip/libraries/cbc-c-linux-x86-64.so': /usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mip/libraries/cbc-c-linux-x86-64.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.  
Additionally, ctypes.util.find_library() did not manage to locate a library called '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/mip/libraries/cbc-c-linux-x86-64.so'

Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • Operating System, version: docker container python-3.10-slim (bookworm and bullseye) aarch64
  • Python version: 3.10.x
  • Python-MIP version (we recommend you to test with the latest version): 1.16rc0 and earlier
Dominant language
Linear Programming
Stars
602
Forks
108
Avg merge
1d 22m
Merged PRs (30d)
1

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