Build instructions

Radler can be installed as a stand-alone package, but is also installed as a part of WSClean. If you only want to install WSClean, it is not necessary to build Radler yourself.

Installing from pypi

Radler can be installed from pypi:

pip install radler

Building from source

Radler needs a number of dependencies in order to successfully compile. On a clean (ubuntu 22.04) system, the dependencies can be installed with (see also the docker directory):

General packages:

apt update && apt -y install git make cmake libpython3-dev g++ \
libboost-date-time-dev libhdf5-dev libfftw3-dev libgsl-dev python3-pip

Astronomy-specific packages:

apt -y install casacore-dev libcfitsio-dev

In order to be able to build the documentation with make doc, sphinx and some other documentation tools need to be installed:

apt -y install doxygen
pip3 install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme breathe myst-parser

Quick installation guide

git clone --recursive https://git.astron.nl/RD/Radler.git
cd Radler
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DBUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS=On ..
make
make install

Installation options

(Use ccmake or cmake -i to configure all options.)

• BUILD_PYTHON_BINDINGS: build Python module ‘radler’ to use Radler from Python

• BUILD_TESTING: compile tests

All other build options serve development purposes only, and can/should be left at the default values by a regular user.

All libraries are installed in <installpath>/lib. The header files in <installpath>/include. The Python module in <installpath>/lib/python{VERSION_MAJOR}.{VERSION_MINOR}/site-packages. Make sure that your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PYTHONPATH are set as appropiate.