Build Dependencies

Section author: Axel Huebl

openPMD-api depends on a series of third-party projects. These are currently:

Required

• CMake 3.10.0+
• C++11 capable compiler, e.g. g++ 4.8+, clang 3.9+, VS 2015+

Shipped internally

The following libraries are shipped internally in share/openPMD/thirdParty/ for convenience:

• MPark.Variant 1.3.0+ (BSL-1.0)
• Catch2 2.2.1+ (BSL-1.0)
• pybind11 2.2.3+ (new BSD)

Optional: I/O backends

• HDF5 1.8.13+
• ADIOS1 1.13.1+
• ADIOS2 2.1+ (not yet implemented)

while those can be build either with or without:

• MPI 2.1+, e.g. OpenMPI 1.6.5+ or MPICH2

Optional: language bindings

• Python:
  • Python 3.X+
  • pybind11 2.2.3+
  • numpy