Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations

For more information check README.txt.

Installation instruction

1. Prerequisites
   • CMake > 3.18
   • Boost sources >= 1.76
   • BLAS/LAPACK
   • HDF5
   • MPI
   • Python >= 3.9
   • Python 3.13 requires Boost version 1.87 or later
   • Earlier versions maybe also work but unsupported
   • C++ compiler (build has been tested on GCC 10.5, GCC 11.4, GCC 12.3 and GCC 13.2)
   • GNU Make or Ninja build system

You need to download and unpack boost library:

wget https://archives.boost.io/release/1.76.0/source/boost_1_86_0.tar.gz
tar -xzf boost_1_86_0.tar.gz

Here we download boost v1.86.0, we have tested ALPS with versions 1.76.0 and 1.86.0.

2. Downloading and building sources

   git clone https://github.com/alpsim/ALPS ALPS
   cmake -S ALPS -B alps_build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=</path/to/install/dir> \
     -DBoost_ROOT_DIR=`pwd`/boost_1_86_0                                 \
     -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-std=c++14 -fpermissive"
   cmake --build alps_build -j 8
   cmake --build alps_build -t test

   This will download the most recent version of ALPS from the github repository, build it, and run unit tests.

3. Installation

   cmake --build alps_build -t install