Building and installing bali-phy

Prequisites

You will need a C++ compiler that understands C++17.

• gcc 7 (or higher) works
• clang 7 (or higher) works
• XCode 10.0 (or higher) works

You will also need to install

• cairo graphics library (optional, but required to build the draw-tree program)

To build the executables, you will need

• meson
• ninja

To build the documentation, you will need

• pandoc

Mac

On Macs you can install all the prerequisites using homebrew as follows:

sudo brew install meson pkg-config pandoc cairo

Linux

On Debian and Ubuntu systems you can install all the prequisites with the following command:

sudo apt-get install g++ meson pandoc libcairo2-dev

Compilation

cd BAli-Phy/
meson build --prefix=$HOME/Applications/bali-phy
cd build
ninja install