ctools

Can you explain a bit more what your problem is?

GOptimizer has indeed the virtual methods status() and iter(), and both a implemented in GOptimizerLM (both return int values). GOptimizerLM is in fact the only optimizer that exists so far, hence this is the only class that derives from GOptimizer.

I went looking around OptimizerLM.cpp, but didn’t find them, and wasn’t sure how to get from a ctlike object to the optimizer:

import ctools
like = ctools.ctlike()
like.opt().status() # ???
like.opt().inter() # ???

These methods seem to be available in my version. Since these are inline-methods, you won’t find them in GOptimizerLM.cpp but in GOptimizerLM.hpp.

The above lines do in fact not work as without running ctlike no optimizer object is allocated, hence ctike.opt() returns None. You have the run ctlike first and then will get the optimizer, including its methods.

Ok. Would it make sense to already allocate an empty GOptimizerLM object in ctlike::init_members() instead of a null pointer?

I think that would work fine.