Installation

This section provide guidelines for installing XACC and its TPLs.

Pre-Requisites

The following software is required before building XACC:

Packages	Dependency	Version
C++11 Compiler	Required	See below
OpenSSL	Required	1.0
CMake	Required	3.2+

Note that you must have a C++11 compliant compiler. If you prefer gcc/g++, it is recommended that you use at least version 5.0 and up. Using [4.8,5) will cause XACC to skip building and installing Antlr, which is required for most XACC Compiler extensions.

The other dependencies are relatively easy to install on various operating systems. Any of the following commands will work for Mac, Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, or Ubuntu:

$ (macosx) brew/port install cmake openssl
$ (fedora) dnf install cmake openssl-devel
$ (ubuntu) apt-get install cmake libssl-dev

Building XACC

Clone the XACC repository:

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/eclipse/xacc

Note you must pass the --recursive flag. If you don’t you must run git submodule update --init --recursive.

XACC requires CMake 3.2+. Run the following to configure and build XACC:

$ cd xacc && mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make install

This will build and install XACC to $HOME/.xacc by default. If you would like to install XACC somewhere else, replace the above cmake command with the following

$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/local/install

You can also build XACC with Python support:

$ export PY_INC_DIR=$(python -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_paths()['platinclude'])")
$ cmake .. -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=$PY_INC_DIR
$ make install

To build with tests

$ cmake .. -DXACC_BUILD_TESTS=TRUE
$ make install
$ ctest