Installation

How to install Simcoon

The easiest way to install simcoon is to create a conda environnement: You can utilize the Anaconda GUI or type: (for the installation of an environment called “scientific”)

conda create --name scientific

To activate the environment:

conda activate scientific

The next step is to install simcoon:

conda install -c conda-forge -c set3mah simcoon

Simcoon is now installed.

To build Simcoon locally

If you need to compile Simcoon on your system, first you need to install the required packages:

conda install -c conda-forge armadillo boost cgal numpy

Next, after downloading the simcoon sources in the github repository of Simcoon. Unzip the content in a folder.

Please note: If you have installed matplotlib you shall delete the file /path/to/anaconda/anaconda3/envs/scientific/lib/python3.7/site-packages/matplotlib-3.4.3-py3.7-nspkg.pth

The last step is to run the installation script:

sh Install.sh # Linux or OSx
.\Install.bat # Windows (requires Visual Studio 2022)

Please note: Make sure you activate your environment before running any python code that invoke Simcoon.