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Installation

Installing DIYABC should be easy: you just need to grab the pre-built release the best suits your platform (Windows, MacOS or Linux) from the releases page.

The file should be executable and, once you download it, you can rename it as diyabc and run, to test the successful installation:

# on macOS/Linux
diyabc -h
# on Windows
.\diyabc.exe -h

If you're not lucky, and for some reasons this first approach does not work, then you should proceed with this second approach, i.e. building the code from source, although it requires a little bit more programming and is suitable only for Linux/macOS.

  • First of all, you need to check that cmake is installed:
cmake --version
  • If cmake is not installed, then proceed to install it:
# from package resources
sudo apt-get -y install cmake # Ubuntu
# with conda
conda install -y conda-forge::cmake
# with brew
brew install cmake
  • Once cmake is installed, clone DIYABC repository:
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/diyabc/diyabc.git
cd diyabc
  • Create a build folder
mkdir build
cd build
  • Pre-build DIYABC
cmake ../
  • Build DIYABC
cmake --build . --config Release

You will find diyabc executable under diyabc/build/src-JMC-C++/general

Now we can just copy the binary file in our working directory:

cd ../..
cp diyabc/build/src-JMC-C++/general diyabc

And we can optionally remove the diyabc repository we compiled as it is no longer necessary:

rm -rf diyabc/

And then we can test the installation by running:

./diyabc -h

With this, you should be able to successfully install DIYABC. Now, let's follow with some examples!