Installation

C++ library

It is a header-only library. You need to ensure that the include directory is in your include path when compiling your program. For example:

git clone https://github.com/project-gemmi/gemmi.git
c++ -std=c++11 -Igemmi/include -O2 my_program.cpp

If you want Gemmi to uncompress gzipped files on the fly (i.e. if you #include <gemmi/gz.hpp>) you will also need to link your program with the zlib library.

If a file name is passed to Gemmi (through std::string) it is assumed to be in ASCII or UTF-8.

Python 2.7/3.x module

To install the gemmi module you need pip, git and not too old C++ compiler (GCC 4.8+, Clang 3.4+, MSVC 2015+, ICC 17+):

pip install gemmi

Alternatively, to install the latest version directly from the repository:

pip install git+https://github.com/project-gemmi/gemmi.git

or clone the project (or download a zip file) and from the top-level directory do:

pip install .

If gemmi is already installed, uninstall the old version first (pip uninstall) or add option --upgrade.

On Windows Python 3.5+ should automatically find an appropriate compiler (MSVC 2015+) . If the compiler is not installed, pip shows a message with a download link. For Python 2.7 pip prefers MSVC 2008, which is too old to compile gemmi. You may still use MSVC 2015, 2017 or 2019, but before invoking pip you need to set the compiler environment with one of these commands:

"%VS140COMNTOOLS%\..\..\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64
"%VS140COMNTOOLS%\..\..\VC\vcvarsall.bat"

If you’d like to use PyPy instead of CPython we support PyPy2.7 >= 5.7 (although we test it only occasionally).

Fortran and C bindings

The Fortran bindings are in early stage and are not documented yet. They use the ISO_C_BINDING module introduced in Fortran 2003. You may see the fortran/ directory to know what to expect. The bindings and usage examples can be compiled with CMake:

cmake -D USE_FORTRAN=1 .
make

The C bindings are used only for making Fortan bindings, but they should be usable on their own. If you use cmake to build the project you get a static library libcgemmi.a that can be used from C, together with the fortran/*.h headers.

Gemmi program

The library comes with a command-line program. To build it from source:

git clone https://github.com/project-gemmi/gemmi.git
cd gemmi
cmake .
make

Credits

This project is using code from a number of third-party open-source projects.

Projects used in the C++ library and included under include/gemmi/third_party/:

  • PEGTL – library for creating PEG parsers. License: MIT.

  • sajson – high-performance JSON parser. License: MIT.

  • PocketFFT – FFT library. License: 3-clause BSD.

  • stb_sprintf – locale-independent snprintf() implementation. License: Public Domain.

  • tinydir – directory (filesystem) reader. License: 2-clause BSD.

Code derived from the following projects is used in the library:

  • ksw2 – sequence alignment in seqalign.hpp is based on the ksw_gg function from ksw2. License: MIT.

  • Larch – calculation of f’ and f” in fprime.hpp is based on CromerLiberman code from Larch. License: 2-clause BSD.

Projects included under third_party/, not used in the library itself, but used in command-line utilities, python bindings or tests that are distributed with the library:

  • The Lean Mean C++ Option Parser – command-line option parser. License: MIT.

  • doctest – testing framework. License: MIT.

  • linalg.h – linear algebra library. License: Public Domain.

  • zlib – a subset of the zlib library for uncompressing gz files, used as a fallback when the zlib library is not found in the system. License: zlib.

Not distributed with Gemmi:

  • pybind11 – used for creating Python bindings. License: 3-clause BSD.

  • cctbx – used in tests and in scripts that generated space group data. License: 3-clause BSD.

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