Installation¶
chinet
can either be installed from prebuilt binaries or from the source code. For most users it is recommended
to install chinet
using the prebuilt binaries. Below the installation using prebuilt binaries and the
prerequisites to compile chinet
are briefly outlined.
Prebuilt binaries¶
It is recommended to install chinet
for Python environments via conda
by.
conda install -c tpeulen chinet
Alternatively, chinet
can be installed via pip
.:
pip install chinet
Compliation¶
chinet
can be compiled and installed using the source code provided in the git repository.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/tpeulen/chinet.git
cd chinet
sudo python setup.py install
To compile chinet
a set of prerequisites need to be fulfilled:
Windows¶
On windows chinet
is best compiled with the Visual Studio 2017. For
compilation the Visual Studion Community edition is sufficient. In addition to Visual Studio the libraries and the
include files as listed above need to be installed. The prebuilt binaries are compiled on Windows 10 with using
64bit anaconda Python environments miniconda using the conda
build recipe that is provided with the source code in the conda-recipe
folder.
MacOS¶
For MacOS the prebuilt binaries are compiled on MacOS 10.13 with the Apple clang compiler using a anaconda
distribution and the provided conda-recipe
.
Linux¶
The Linux prebuilt binaries are compiled on Ubuntu 18.04 in an anaconda distribution and the provided
conda-recipe
.
Conda¶
A conda recipe is provided in the folder ‘conda-recipe’ to build the chinet library with the conda build environment.
To build the library download the recipe, install the conda build package and use the provided recipe to build the library.
conda install conda-build
conda build conda-recipe