Chapel Prerequisites¶
Chapel is designed to be portable to a variety of systems and only requires software that is common on UNIX systems.
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 a Bourne shell available at
/bin/sh
andenv
available at/usr/bin/env
.You have Python 2.7 or newer available as either
python3
orpython
and thatenv
can locate it.You have access to
gmake
or a GNU-compatible version ofmake
.You have access to standard C and C++ compilers.
Building the Chapel compiler and bundled components requires C++14 and one of the following:
GCC 7.1 or newer
Clang 5.0 or newer
Apple Clang 9.3 or newer
C11 support, while not required, will enable faster atomic operations.
CMake is available and
cmake
runs version 3.13.4 or later.The LLVM backend is now the default and it is easiest to use it with a system-wide installation of LLVM. LLVM and clang versions 11, 12, 13 and 14 are currently supported. If a system-wide installation of LLVM and clang with one of those versions is not available, you can use the bundled LLVM or disable LLVM support (see CHPL_LLVM).
In addition, several optional components have additional requirements:
Python 3.7 or newer is required if you want to use chpldoc, c2chapel, or Chapel’s test system. These additionally require
python3-devel
or the equivalent package;python3
andpip3
commands; and thevenv
Python package.
doxygen
is required to build the complete documentation
m4
is required for building the bundled GMP
git
is required for Mason, chapel’s package manager
pkg-config
is required for themason system
subcommands
Installation¶
We have used the following commands to install the above prerequisites:
Alma Linux 8, 9.0:
sudo dnf install gcc gcc-c++ m4 perl python3 python3-devel bash make gawk git cmake sudo dnf install which diffutils sudo dnf install llvm-devel clang clang-develAlpine 3.15:
sudo apk add gcc g++ m4 perl python3 python3-dev bash make gawk git cmake sudo apk add llvm-dev clang-devAmazon Linux 2022:
sudo dnf install gcc gcc-c++ m4 perl python3 python3-devel bash make gawk git cmake sudo dnf install which diffutils sudo dnf install clang clang-devel llvm-develArch:
sudo pacman -Syu sudo pacman -S base-devel sudo pacman -S cmake git python sudo pacman -S llvm clangCentOS 7 Devtoolset 11:
sudo yum install centos-release-scl sudo yum install devtoolset-11-gcc* sudo yum install epel-release sudo scl enable devtoolset-11 bash sudo echo source scl_source enable devtoolset-11 >> ~/.bashrc sudo yum install git gcc gcc-c++ m4 perl tcsh bash gcc gcc-c++ perl python3 bash make gawk cmake3 sudo echo export CMAKE=cmake3 >> ~/.bashrcCentOS Stream 8:
sudo dnf install gcc gcc-c++ m4 perl python3 python3-devel bash make gawk git cmake sudo dnf install which diffutils sudo dnf install llvm-devel clang clang-develDebian 10 “Buster”:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gcc g++ m4 perl python3 python3-dev bash make mawk git pkg-config cmake sudo apt-get install llvm-11-dev llvm-11 llvm-11-tools clang-11 libclang-11-dev libclang-cpp11-dev libedit-devDebian 11 “Bullseye”:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gcc g++ m4 perl python3 python3-dev bash make mawk git pkg-config cmake sudo apt-get install llvm-dev llvm clang libclang-dev libclang-cpp-dev libedit-devFedora 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36:
sudo dnf install gcc gcc-c++ m4 perl python3 python3-devel bash make gawk git cmake sudo dnf install which diffutils sudo dnf install llvm-devel clang clang-develFreeBSD 12.2, 12.3, 13.1:
sudo pkg install gcc m4 perl5 python3 bash gmake gawk git pkgconf cmake sudo pkg install llvm13OpenSuse Leap 15.3, 15.4:
sudo zypper install gcc gcc-c++ m4 perl python3 python3-devel bash make gawk git pkg-config cmake sudo zypper install llvm-devel clang-devel clangRocky Linux 8, 9.0:
sudo dnf install gcc gcc-c++ m4 perl python3 python3-devel bash make gawk git cmake sudo dnf install which diffutils sudo dnf install llvm-devel clang clang-develUbuntu 20.04 “Focal Fossa”:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install software-properties-common sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gcc g++ m4 perl python3 python3-dev bash make mawk git pkg-config cmake sudo apt-get install llvm-12-dev llvm-12 llvm-12-tools clang-12 libclang-12-dev libclang-cpp12-dev libedit-devUbuntu 21.10 “Impish Indri”, 22.04 “Jammy Jellyfish”, 22.10 “Kinetic Kudu”:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gcc g++ m4 perl python3 python3-dev bash make mawk git pkg-config cmake sudo apt-get install llvm-dev llvm clang libclang-dev libclang-cpp-dev libedit-dev