Installing DLite

DLite is written C, but can be compiled with or without bindings to Python and Fortran and with or without support for HDF5 and librdf storages. A set of additional optional storages are available if compiled with Python support. For a complete list, see runtime dependencies.

Installing with pip

If you are using Python, the easiest way to install DLite is with pip:

pip install DLite-Python[full]

The bracket [full] is optional, but ensures that you install DLite together with all optional dependencies needed for additional features and storage plugins. (see also runtime dependencies).

Extra requirements

The complete list of extra requirements is as follows:

• [mappings]: Extra requirements needed for property mappings.

• [full]: All extra runtime requirements, needed by the various storage plugins or features like property mappings.

• [dev]: Extra requirements needed for development and testing.

• [doc]: Extra requirements needed for generating documentation.

Supported binary releases

DLite uses cibuildwheel for providing binary releases for Linux and Windows on various platforms and versions of Python. The provided wheels are shown in the following two tables.

32-bit

Python version	3.8	3.9	3.10	3.11	3.12
musllinux_1_1	x	x	x	x
musllinux_1_2	x	x	x	x
manylinux2010	x	x
manylinux2014	x	x	x	x
manylinux_2_28
windows

64-bit

Python version	3.8	3.9	3.10	3.11	3.12
musllinux_1_1	x	x	x	x
musllinux_1_2	x	x	x	x
manylinux2010	x	x
manylinux2014	x	x	x	x	x
manylinux_2_28	x	x	x	x	x
windows	x	x	x	x	x

Development installation

If you to contribute or develop DLite, you should build from source.

Python dependencies for development can be installed with

pip install DLite-Python[dev]

Install additional Python packages for building documentation with

pip install DLite-Python[doc]