Installation¶
Installation procedure for all main operating systems
Hardware requirement¶
PyFAI has been tested on various hardware: i386, x86_64, PPC64le, ARM, ARM64. The main constrain may be the memory requirement: 2GB of memory is a minimal requirement to run the tests. The program may run with less but “MemoryError” are expected (appearing sometimes as segmentation faults). As a consequence, a 64-bits operating system with enough memory is strongly advised.
Dependencies¶
PyFAI is a Python library which relies on the scientific stack (numpy, scipy, matplotlib)
- Python: version 3.6 or newer (version 3.5 was dropped with 0.19)
- NumPy: version 1.12 or newer
- SciPy: version 0.18 or newer
- Matplotlib: verson 2.0 or newer
- FabIO: version 0.5 or newer
- h5py: version 2.10 or newer
- silx: version 0.14 or newer
There are plenty of optional dependencies which will not prevent pyFAI from working by may impair performances or prevent tools from properly working:
- pyopencl (for GPU computing)
- fftw (for image analysis)
- PyQt5 or PySide2 (for the graphical user interface)
Build dependencies:¶
In addition to the run dependencies, pyFAI needs a C compiler to build extensions.
C files are generated from cython source and distributed. The distributed version correspond to OpenMP version. Non-OpenMP version needs to be built from cython source code (especially on MacOSX). If you want to generate your own C files, make sure your local Cython version is sufficiently recent (>0.21).
Building procedure¶
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py build
pip install . --upgrade
There are few specific options to setup.py build
:
--no-cython
: Prevent Cython (even if present) to re-generate the C source code. Use the one provided by the development team.--force-cython
: Force the re-cythonization of all binary extensions.--no-openmp
: Recompiles the Cython code without OpenMP support (default under MacOSX).--openmp
: Recompiles the Cython code with OpenMP support (Default under Windows and Linux).--with-testimages
: build the source distribution including all test images. Download 200MB of test images to create a self consistent tar-ball.
Detailed installation procedure¶
Test suites¶
PyFAI comes with a test suite to ensure all core functionalities are working as expected and numerical results are correct:
python3 setup.py build
python3 run_tests.py
Nota: to run the test, an internet connection is needed as 200MB of test images need to be download. You may have to set the environment variable http_proxy and https_proxy according to the networking environment you are in. This is no more needed at the ESRF.
Environment variables¶
PyFAI can use a certain number of environment variable to modify its default behavior:
- PYFAI_OPENCL: set to “0” to disable the use of OpenCL
- PYFAI_DATA: path with gui, calibrant, …
- PYFAI_TESTIMAGES: path wit test images (if absent, they get downloaded from the internet)
- PYFAI_NO_LOGGING: Disable the configuration of any python logger in interactive mode