COPASI's sources are available as
source packages
or from our
github repository. These
sources are written in standard C++ and will compile on Linux, OS X and Windows.
Dependencies
To start compiling COPASI we recommend to use the
copasi-dependencies package.The dependency
package compiles all the dependencies necessary for COPASI, they include clapack, cppunit, expat, raptor libSEDML,
libsbml, SBW as well as the Qt libraries QWT, QWT3D and the Qt MML widget. Instructions for building the
dependencies are described here:
Compiling COPASI
Once the dependencies have been built, COPASI is easily compiled using
CMake:
git clone https://github.com/copasi/COPASI
mkdir build_copasi
cd build_copasi
cmake -DBUILD_GUI=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/copasi -DCOPASI_DEPENDENCY_DIR=../copasi-dependencies/bin ../COPASI
make
make install
In the above ../copasi-dependencies is the location of the compiled copasi-dependencies project. The option
BUILD_GUI=OFF builds only the command line version of COPASI (aka CopasiSE). To build the graphical frontend (aka
CopasiUI), and having Qt 4 installed, the option would need to be BUILD_GUI=ON. The option
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/copasi specifies, that COPASI ought to be installed in the current users home directory in a
subfolder copasi.
There are many more compile options available, options for building the language bindings as well as options to
enable some experimental features that are not yet available in the stable builds that are released publicly. To
view the complete set of options, start the graphical cmake frontend in the continuing from the above command this
would be done with:
cmake-gui ../COPASI
