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Setup and Installation

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Supported Platforms and Compilers
Prerequisites
Installation

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The latest version of the ALPS libraries can be downloaded from http://alps.comp-phys.org/more/download.html.

Supported Platforms and Compilers

The ALPS libraries have been tested on the following platforms and compilers:

  • Linux with GNU (g++ version >= 3.1) and Intel C++ (icc version >= 7.0) compilers
  • Mac OS X with GNU compiler (g++ Apple-version >= 3.1)
  • IBM AIX with Visual Age C++ (xlC version 6.0) and GNU (g++ version >= 3.1) compilers
  • Compaq Tru64 UNIX with Compq C++ Compiler (cxx)
  • SGI IRIX with MIPSpro C++ Compiler (CC)
  • HP-UX with HP C++ Compiler (aCC)

Prerequisites

The ALPS libraries requires the source tree of version 1.32 or higher of the Boost C++ library, available at http://www.boost.org/.

If support for additional features is desired, the following libraries are needed as well:

Installation

For easy setup, a configure script is provided. Just type

./configure

in the top directory of ALPS source tree. The configure script accepts several command-line options. See Configure Options for details. After configuration, type

make install

to build and install all the header files, libraries, and tools. To compile example programs or run test suites, type

make examples

or

make tests

respectviely.

Copyright © 2002-2005 Synge Todo, Matthias Troyer

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