.. Copyright (c) 2016, Johan Mabille, Sylvain Corlay and Wolf Vollprecht

   Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.

   The full license is in the file LICENSE, distributed with this software.


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Installation
============

Although ``xtensor`` is a header-only library, we provide standardized means to install it, with package managers or with cmake.

Besides the xtendor headers, all these methods place the `cmake` project configuration file in the right location so that third-party projects can use cmake's find_package to locate xtensor headers.

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Using the conda package
-----------------------

A package for xtensor is available on the conda package manager.

.. code::

    conda install -c conda-forge xtensor

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Using the Debian package
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A package for xtensor is available on Debian.

.. code::

    sudo apt-get install xtensor-dev

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From source with cmake
----------------------

You can also install ``xtensor`` from source with cmake. On Unix platforms, from the source directory:

.. code::

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/prefix ..
    make install

On Windows platforms, from the source directory:

.. code::

    mkdir build
    cd build
    cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/prefix ..
    nmake
    nmake install

See the section of the documentation on :doc:`build-options`, for more details on how to cmake options.
