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--- install_actflow [2024/08/31 11:55] – [Troubleshooting] rajit
+++ install_actflow [2025/04/17 10:32] (current) – [Installing actflow] rajit
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 Primary development of the tools in the actflow repository is conducted on Linux and MacOS, and so it has been extensively tested on such systems. It has also been tested in certain [[install#Microsoft Windows|Windows]] environments (see below).
+If you are a Homebrew user, check out the [[https://github.com/asyncvlsi/homebrew-tap|homebrew tap]] for the tools.
+===== Getting the source  =====
 The repository is available from [[https://github.com/asyncvlsi/actflow|Github]]. Once you clone this repository, make sure you run
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       * For ''apt-get'', it is ''libeditline-dev'' or ''libedit-dev''
       * Some systems have both packages. In that case please use ''libedit'', not ''libeditline''.
-   * The system should have ''zlib'' installed
+   * The system must have ''zlib'' installed
-   * The system should have the macro pre-processing package ''m4'' installed
+   * The system must have the macro pre-processing package ''m4'' installed
-   * The system should have a modern C++ compiler (at least C++-17)
+   * The system must have a modern C++ compiler (at least C++-17)
-   * The system should have ''cmake'' (at least version 3.16)
+   * The system must have ''cmake'' (at least version 3.16)
-   * The system should have the Boost libraries (at least version 1.71.0)
+   * The system must have the Boost libraries (at least version 1.71.0)
-   * The system should have ''libfmt'' (at least version 4.0)
+   * The system must have ''libfmt'' (at least version 4.0)
 **MacOS:** These packages can be installed using the [[https://brew.sh/|homebrew]] package manager. Note that on recent versions of MacOS, the C++ compiler provided by Apple does not accept the ''-fopenmp'' flag for OpenMP compilation, so you will likely need to install g++ using homebrew as well.