Install#

Linux and Mac OS#

The simplest way to install this library is through pip:

$ pip install pyflct

This will install the pre-compiled binary wheels for these two platforms.

You can also install it through Anaconda using the command below used for Windows.

Windows#

We only officially support Windows through Anaconda.

$ conda install -c conda-forge pyflct

This uses the conda-forge channel.

Source Install#

If you want to install the source only version of pyflct you will need to compile the C extension. This means you will need a compiler (“gcc” or “MSVC”) and the FFTW library installed.

Linux#

Install FFTW from your distribution’s repositories (some examples):

$ apt install libfftw3-dev
$ pacman -S fftw3
$ zypper install fftw3-devel

Now you install pyfftw from pip:

$ pip install --no-binary pyfftw

Mac OS#

Install FFTW from homebrew:

$ brew install fftw

Set these environmental variables:

$ export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
$ export CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include"

Now you install pyfftw from pip:

$ pip install --no-binary pyfftw

Windows#

This is much more involved and we strongly suggest not doing this.

Common Steps#

Set up the build environment with MSVC:

Anaconda#

Set up FFTW:

$ conda install fftw

Now you install pyfftw from pip:

$ pip install pyfftw

Full source#

Set up FFTW:

  • Download ZIP file of precompiled FFTW Windows DLLs and extract contents to a folder.

  • Open the application “Developer Command Prompt for VS2019”, change to the above folder, and run the following commands to create the import libraries (libfftw3*.lib)

lib /def:libfftw3-3.def /machine:x64
lib /def:libfftw3f-3.def /machine:x64
lib /def:libfftw3l-3.def /machine:x64
  • Copy the libfftw3*.dll files to somewhere in %PATH% (or add the FFTW folder to %PATH%). How to here.

  • Modify pyflct/setup_package.py if not already modified so that the compilation options include the FFTW folder for include_dirs and library_dirs and the library names for libraries.