Chapel Prerequisites

If you have a standard UNIX environment, a C/C++ compiler, some basic scripting languages, a GNU-compatible make, and awk installed you should have no problems getting started with Chapel.

Prerequisites

In slightly more detail, the following are prerequisites and assumptions about your environment for using Chapel:

  • You are using an environment that supports standard UNIX commands such as: cd, mkdir, rm, echo
  • You have the Bourne shell available at /bin/sh, the C-shell available at /bin/csh, ‘env’ available at /usr/bin/env, and that ‘env’ can locate Perl and Python on your system.
  • You have access to gmake or a GNU-compatible version of make.
  • You have access to standard C and C++ compilers. We test our code using a range of compilers on a nightly basis; these include relatively recent versions of gcc/g++, clang, and compilers from Cray, Intel, and PGI.
  • If you wish to use Chapel’s test system, python-devel or an equivalent package for your platform is required.

Installation

We have used the following commands to install the above prerequisites

  • CentOS:

    sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ perl python python-devel bash make gawk

  • SLES:

    sudo zypper install gcc gcc-c++ perl python python-devel bash make gawk

  • Debian, Ubuntu:

    sudo apt-get install gcc g++ perl python python-dev bash make mawk