Develop

Compiling Cantera from Source

If you’re interested in contributing new features to Cantera, or you want to try the latest and development version, you will need to compile Cantera from source. The first step is to make sure you have all the Compilation Requirements installed. Then, you can download the Cantera source code. Finally, you can determine the appropriate configuration options and compile Cantera on your computer.

The following additional references may also be useful:

• Software used by Cantera

• Configuration Options

• Special Compiling Cases

How Cantera Works

Caution

This section is a work in progress.

• How Time Integration of Reactor Networks Works

Adding New Features to Cantera

• Contributing to Cantera

• Code Style Guidelines

• Configuring Visual Studio Code for Cantera

• Writing Tests

• Running Tests and Debugging

• Writing Examples

• Formatting Documentation

Releasing & Distributing Cantera

• Making a New Cantera Release

• Distributing sdist and Wheel Packages via PyPI

• Distributing Conda Package via conda-forge

• Distributing for Ubuntu via a Personal Package Archive (PPA)

• Distributing for Windows and macOS