hands-on-solvers

For running Minisat, Z3 and CVC4, you can use Docker containers. You find the installation instruction below.

Minisat

docker pull julianthome/tinned:tinned-minisat
docker run -it julianthome/tinned:tinned-minisat bash
apt-get install ruby
cd /opt && git clone https://github.com/julianthome/hands-on-solvers
cd /opt/hands-on-solvers/sudoku2sat
./gensat.rb input.csv # translate problem to DIMACS
minisat input.cnf model.txt # solve problem
# you can map the variable id to the sudoku grid by using input.vmap file which
# is generated automatically

CVC4

docker pull julianthome/tinned:tinned-cvc4
docker run -it julianthome/tinned:tinned-cvc4 bash
apt-get install ruby
cd /opt && git clone https://github.com/julianthome/hands-on-solvers
cd /opt/hands-on-solvers/sudoku2smt
./gensmt.rb input.csv # translate problem to SMT
cvc4 --lang smt2 input.smt2

Z3

docker pull julianthome/tinned:tinned-z3
docker run -it julianthome/tinned:tinned-z3 bash
apt-get install ruby
cd /opt && git clone https://github.com/julianthome/hands-on-solvers
cd /opt/hands-on-solvers/sudoku2smt
./gensat.rb input.csv # translate problem to SMT
z3 input.smt2

Z3 Python bindings

docker pull julianthome/tinned:tinned-z3
docker run -it julianthome/tinned:tinned-z3 bash
cd /opt/hands-on-solvers
apt-get update && apt-get install python-pip
pip install z3-solver
./pythonz3.py
./solveSudoku.py xample.txt