This project contains a number of open source libraries, that make the building of COPASI with CMAKE as easy as to configure with:

cmake -DCOPASI_DEPENDENCY_DIR=<dir> <copasi source dir>  
make  
make install

We are in the process of updating the documentation. The older instructions are still available.

To build the COPASI dependencies we recommend to use the cmake build system from the main directory. This basically includes the required dependency libraries from the chosen configuration as external projects.

Currently not all cmake generators support external subprojects (building from the visual studio IDE is currently known to be not working) so we recommend to use either:

• Ninja
• Unix Makefiles
• NMake Makefiles JOM
• NMake Makefiles

If you just want to build the dependencies for the language bindings or the command line version for COPASI, you can simply configure using the BUILD_UI_DEPS=OFF option. Then a build of those dependencies is done simply with:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G Ninja -DBUILD_UI_DEPS=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../bin ..
ninja

where:

• build: is the name of the build folder in which all of the copasi-dependencies will be built.
• -G Ninja: specifies that the ninja generator should be used
• -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../bin: this is also the path that you later specify as -DCOPASI_DEPENDENCY_DIR=<dir> when configuring COPASI
• -DBUILD_UI_DEPS=OFF: that no UI dependencies should be built
• ..: indicates that the root of the copasi-dependencies directory is one folder up

Note: on linux system crossguid has a dependency on the uuid library, as such you will have to install it manually first. This can be done using your package manager:

apt-get install uuid-dev

or

yum install uuid-devel

or

pacman -S libutil-linux-devel

or directly from the source archives.

The COPASI user interface uses Qt. We recommend to use Qt5, with the additional Qt5DataVisualization module installed.

To specify which Qt should be used, use the

• SELECT_QT: option we recommend it to be set to Qt5, other valid values are Qt4 and Any

To ensure that Qt can be found you will need to specify the Qt5_DIR variable to the full path of the lib/cmake/Qt5 path of your Qt5 installation). (Or for Qt4 the QT_DIR variable to the full path of the root of your Qt4 installation).

Examples:

Qt5:

-DSELECT_QT=Qt5 -DQt5_DIR=C:/Qt/Qt5.14.2/5.14.2/msvc2017/lib/cmake/Qt5

Qt4:

-DSELECT_QT=Qt4 -DQTDIR=C:\Qt\qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.6_vs14

to summarize to build all dependencies (including UI dependencies for Qt5) you would use commands like:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G Ninja -DSELECT_QT=Qt5 -DQt5_DIR=C:/Qt/Qt5.11.1/5.11.1/msvc2015/lib/cmake/Qt5 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../bin ..
ninja

where:

• build: is the name of the build folder in which all of the copasi-dependencies will be built.
• -G Ninja: specifies that the ninja generator should be used
• -DSELECT_QT=Qt5: that Qt5 from the specified Qt5_DIR should be used
• -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../bin: this is also the path that you later specify as -DCOPASI_DEPENDENCY_DIR=<dir> when configuring COPASI
• ..: indicates that the root of the copasi-dependencies directory is one folder up

The complete list of all options is:

• BUILD_UI_DEPS: specifies whether the UI dependencies are preselected. (defaults to ON)
• BUILD_expat: specifies whether or not expat should be built (defaults to ON)
• BUILD_raptor: specifies whether raptor should be built (defaults to ON, forces expat to be built)
• BUILD_crossguid: specifies whether raptor should be built (defaults to ON)
• BUILD_clapack: specifies whether clapack should be built (defaults to ON)
• BUILD_libSBML: specifies whether libSBML should be built (defaults to ON, forces expat to be built)
• BUILD_libnuml: specifies whether libNUML should be built (defaults to ON, forces libSBML to be built)
• BUILD_libSEDML: specifies whether libSEDML should be built (defaults to ON, forces libnuml to be built)
• BUILD_zlib: specifies whether zlib should be built (defaults to ON)
• BUILD_zipper: specifies whether zipper should be built (defaults to ON, forces zlib to be built)
• BUILD_libCombine: specifies whether libCombine should be built (defaults to ON, forces zipper and libSBML to be built)
• BUILD_SBW: specifies whether SBW should be built (defaults to BUILD_UI_DEPS)
• BUILD_mml: specifies whether MML should be built (defaults to BUILD_UI_DEPS)
• BUILD_qwt6: specifies whether qwt-6 should be built (defaults to BUILD_UI_DEPS)
• BUILD_qwt: specifies whether qwt should be built (defaults to BUILD_UI_DEPS)
• BUILD_qwtplot3d: specifies whether qwtplot3d should be built (defaults to BUILD_UI_DEPS)
• BUILD_archive: specifies whether an archive of the binaries should be created (defaults to ON)
• WITH_STATIC_RUNTIME: a specific option on windows to ensure that the static MSVC runtime is used rather than the dynamic one. (defaults to OFF) When using the dynamic runtime, the MSVC redistributable package will have to be installed on the target system.

The following open source libraries are included in this project:

• clapack 3.2.1
• cppunit 1.12.1
• expat 2.1.0
• qtmmlwidget
• QWT 5.2.0 or 6.1.0
• QWT 3D plot
• libSBML 5.18.0
• libnuml 1.1.1
• libSEDML 0.4.2
• libCOMBINE 0.2.2
• SBW Core
• raptor
• zipper 0.9.1
• crossguid

Just in case it needs saying, each of the libraries in the src folder are released under their own respective licenses. Otherwise this project (i.e.: the build scripts) are released under the BSD License:

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