Installation

The following section describes the installation of the Python interface of the library. If you want to install the interface for another programming language, you have to follow the instructions of the manual of that language.

Instructions

The python interface of the library should be installed using the package management system pip on all operating systems : Windows and Unix-like system (Linux, macOS, BSD, Cygwin, ...).

A python interpreter, compliant at least with Python 3.0 specifications, and the package Cython, setuptools and numpy are required to install the python interface of the library.

Some Linux distributions require the installation development tools of the python software. The name of this package may change on other Linux distributions or operating systems :

  • Debian or Ubuntu distributions : package python3-dev and python-dev-is-python3 are required.

  • Opensuse distribution : package python3-dev is required.

  • Fedora or RedHat distributions : python3-devel is required.

In addition you need the software CMake and a C compiler :

  • On Unix-like operating systems (Linux, MacOS X, ...), you should install gcc or clang.

  • On windows operating system, you need the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. If you don't have a C compiler already installed, you can download the community edition of visual studio https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/fr/vs/features/cplusplus/. Before the execution of the next steps, you should execute the following line in the same terminal. You may have to adjust the path according to your version of the Visual studio compiler.

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars64.bat"

Using pip

Depending on your python installation, the command pip may be replaced by pip3. If you use the distribution anaconda, you should prefer to use the instruction from the Anaconda section.

The steps are :

  • Install the requirements

    pip install Cython setuptools numpy

  • Install the library

    pip install calcephpy

Using Anaconda

Depending on your anaconda installation, the command pip may be replaced by pip3.

The steps are :

  • Install the gcc compiler from the Anaconda compiler tools :

    See the instruction on https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda-build/en/latest/resources/compiler-tools.html

    For example, on the operating system Linux, it will be :

    conda install gcc_linux-64 cmake make

  • Install the other requirements

    conda install Cython setuptools numpy

  • Install the library

    pip install calcephpy