Installing kWIP

The full way

Dependencies:

• zlib
• cmake>=2.8
• Optionally, liboxli and Eigen3 are required. These libraries are bundled with kWIP, and the internal copy will be used if system copies are not.
• A C++11 compiler that supports OpenMP (i.e. gcc >=4.8)

On Debian (or Debian derivatives) the dependencies of kWIP can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev cmake build-essential git

Then, to compile kWIP:

git clone https://github.com/kdmurray91/kWIP.git
cd kWIP
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${HOME}
make
make test
make install

The commands above assume you want to install kWIP to your home directory. This is probably required on clusters, and necessary without root privileges. To install to, e.g, /usr/local/, replace $HOME with your preferred installation prefix.

The easy way

Pre-compiled static binaries for 64-bit GNU/Linux are provided on the GitHub releases page. The following commands will obtain and install kWIP.

# If ~/bin/ is not in $PATH, you won't be able to use kwip.
# Perform the command below to ensure PATH is set correctly.
echo "PATH=\"${HOME}/bin:\${PATH}\"" >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

cd $HOME
wget https://github.com/kdmurray91/kWIP/releases/download/0.2.0/kwip-binaries_0.2.0.tar.gz
wget https://github.com/kdmurray91/kWIP/releases/download/0.2.0/kwip-binaries_0.2.0.tar.gz.sha256sums
sha256sum -c kwip-binaries_0.2.0.tar.gz.sha256sums

# Extract the precompiled binaries
tar xvf kwip-binaries*.tar.gz

# Check your installation by typing
kwip --help

Please note that as these binaries are compiled to be as widely compatible as possible, the compiler will use few modern optimisations. Therefore it is possible that these static binaries will be slower on modern processors than binaries compiled from source.