Installing on Windows¶
Windows installers are provided for stable versions of Cantera. These installers provide the Matlab toolbox and header/library files that can be used to compile C++ applications.
To install the Cantera Python package, see the pip or conda instructions. The Python package is required if:
You need to work with legacy CTI or XML input files
You need to convert legacy input files to YAML
You need to convert Chemkin-format input files to YAML
Remove old versions of Cantera
Use The Windows "Add/Remove Programs" interface to remove previous versions of the Cantera package.
Install Cantera
Go to the Cantera Releases page and download Cantera-2.6.0-x64.msi.
Run the installer and follow the prompts.
Configure Matlab
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If you have also installed the Python module, set the environment variable
PYTHON_CMD
accordingly.From the Start menu, type "edit environment" and select "Edit environment variables for your account".
Add a New variable with
PYTHON_CMD
as the name and the full path to the Python executable (for example,C:\python310\python.exe
) as the value.Setting
PYTHON_CMD
is not necessary if the path topython.exe
is in yourPATH
(which can be set from the same configuration dialog).
Launch Matlab
Go to File->Set Path...
Select Add with Subfolders
Browse to the folder
C:\Program Files\Cantera\matlab\toolbox
Select Save, then Close.
Test the installation
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From the Matlab prompt, run:
gas = IdealGasMix('gri30.yaml') h2o = Solution('liquidvapor.yaml', 'water')