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Compiling Cantera from Source
Adding New Features to Cantera
Releasing & Distributing Cantera
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
This section is a work in progress.
How Time Integration of Reactor Networks Works
Contributing to Cantera
Code Style Guidelines
Configuring Visual Studio Code for Cantera
Running Tests and Debugging
Formatting Documentation
Continuous Integration
Automated Code Generation
Generated CLib Headers
Generated YAML Output
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
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