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Build and install

Building Examples

This will build the examples in the build/examples directory:

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mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O2"
sudo cmake --build . --parallel 2 --config Release

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mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O2"
cmake --build . --parallel 2 --config Release

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mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/O2"
cmake --build . --parallel 2 --config Release

Parallel Build

Replace --parallel 2 with --parallel <number of cores in your machine>

Setting C++ Compiler

If your C++ compiler that supports C++17 is not your default compiler, make sure you provide CMake with the compiler location with the DCMAKE_C_COMPILER and DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER options. For instance:

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cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O2" -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/gcc-8 -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/g++-8

Installing

You can 1) use -DMATPLOTPP_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DMATPLOTPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF to bypass the examples and tests, and then 2) cmake --install . to install Matplot++ on your system:

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mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O2" -DMATPLOTPP_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DMATPLOTPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
sudo cmake --build . --parallel 2 --config Release
sudo cmake --install .

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mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-O2" -DMATPLOTPP_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DMATPLOTPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
cmake --build . --parallel 2 --config Release
cmake --install .

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mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="/O2" -DMATPLOTPP_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DMATPLOTPP_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
cmake --build . --parallel 2 --config Release
cmake --install .

Parallel Build

Replace --parallel 2 with --parallel <number of cores in your machine>

Create packages

You can also create the binary packages to install Matplot++ on other systems:

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sudo cpack .

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cpack .

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cpack .