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Installation on Linux (short version)

This page shortly explains how to build and install BornAgain from source on Linux systems.

Install third party software

  • Compiler with full C++-14 support (i.e. gcc>= 5.0)
  • cmake (>= 3.14)
  • boost library (>= 1.60)
  • fftw3 library (>= 3.3.1)
  • gsl (GNU scientific library, >= 1.15)
  • libtiff library (>=4.0.2)
  • python3, python3-devel, python3-numpy-devel, python3-matplotlib
  • Qt5 (>=5.11)

Get the source

Download the BornAgain source tarball or use the following git repository

$ git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/scgmlz/BornAgain.git

Build and install the framework

$ mkdir <build_dir>; cd <build_dir>;
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<install_dir> <source_dir>
$ make -j4
$ ctest -j4
$ make install 

$ cmake -DBORNAGAIN_USE_PYTHON3=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<install_dir> <source_dir>