.. index:: Required libraries .. _requirements: A complete list of requirements =============================== TRIQS is built upon several python and C++ libraries, which, if not present already in your system, can be freely downloaded and installed. All the libraries and tools used by TRIQS are described below. .. _require_cxx_compilers: C++ compilers ------------- TRIQS is written in C++, i.e. in the **C++11** standard as defined by the ISO standardization committee. A recent compiler is therefore mandatory. There are 3 categories of C++ compilers: * Standard compliant C++ compilers * :ref:`clang 3.3` and higher * g++ 4.8.1 and higher These compilers are recommended and supported. * Obsolete compilers * g++ 4.6.3 to 4.8.0 TRIQS can be built with these compilers but because they lack full C++11 support, TRIQS may be slower (some optimisations are disabled in the library). These compilers may not be supported in later releases. * C++98 compilers * g++ before 4.6 * Intel icc 12.0 and below Compilers implementing the previous version of the C++ standard (C++98) do not work and will *not* be supported. Libraries --------- ================== ================ ================================================================================ Library/tool Version Comment ================== ================ ================================================================================ mpi openmpi Parallelism. Since standard linux distributions (and macports on OS X) now provides openmpi, even on laptops, we avoid the unnecessary complication of maintaining a non-parallel version of TRIQS fftw >= 3.2 Fourier transforms boost >= 1.49 C++ librairies hdf5 >= 1.8.0 File storage system. Important: the *serial* version must be installed python >= 2.6.5 The Python interpreter scipy Python mathematical library numpy Python scientific library h5py Python interface to hdf5 library mpi4py Python MPI sphinx >= 1.0.1 Python documentation tools (to compile documentation) cmake >= 2.8.7 CMake is used to control the software compilation process pyparsing Tool for sphinx (to compile documentation) matplotlib >= 0.99 Python 2D plotting library cython >=0.17 A language that allows to write C extensions for the Python language ================== ================ ================================================================================