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Installation Notes
- See the README file in the .tar.xz package for full installation instructions
- If you encounter any bugs or regressions, please report them
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If you use Armadillo in your research and/or software, please cite the associated papers;
citations are useful for the continued development and maintenance of the library
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Linux based operating systems (eg. Fedora, Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, etc)
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Before installing Armadillo, first install OpenBLAS and LAPACK, along with the corresponding development/header files
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Recommended packages to install before installing Armadillo:
- Fedora & Red Hat: cmake, openblas-devel, lapack-devel, arpack-devel, SuperLU-devel
- Ubuntu & Debian: cmake, libopenblas-dev, liblapack-dev, libarpack2-dev, libsuperlu-dev
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Pre-built Armadillo packages are provided by many Linux-based operating systems:
Fedora,
Debian,
Ubuntu,
openSUSE,
Arch
the pre-built packages may not be the latest version; if you're encountering problems, use the official stable version provided here
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macOS
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The "Accelerate" framework is used for accessing BLAS and LAPACK functions;
see the README file in the package for more information
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Pre-built Armadillo packages can also be installed via
MacPorts
or
Homebrew
the pre-built packages may not be the latest version; if you're encountering problems, use the official stable version provided here
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Windows
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The Armadillo package contains pre-compiled OpenBLAS
as well as MSVC project files to compile the example program,
tested on Windows 10 (64 bit) with Visual Studio 2019;
you may need to make adaptations for later versions of Windows and/or the compiler
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Intel MKL can also be used as a fast implementation of BLAS and LAPACK
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Caveat:
for any high performance scientific/engineering workloads, we strongly recommend using a Linux based operating system
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Cross-Platform
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Armadillo packages for the Conda package management system (part of Anaconda):
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Armadillo recipe for the Conan package management system:
