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@@ -4,12 +4,19 @@ Installation
Compiling
*********
-The library uses c++11 and requires `Boost <http://www.boost.org/>`_ with version
-1.48.0 or more recent. It is a multi-platform library and compiles on Linux,
-Mac OSX and Visual Studio 2015.
+The library uses c++11 and requires `Boost <http://www.boost.org/>`_ with
+version 1.48.0 or more recent. It is a multi-platform library and compiles on
+Linux, Mac OSX and Visual Studio 2015.
It also requires cmake to generate makefiles, and cython to compile the
library.
+On `Windows <https://wiki.python.org/moin/WindowsCompilers>`_ , only Python
+3.5 and 3.6 are available because of the required Visual Studio version.
+
+On other systems, if you have several Python/cython installed, the version 2.X
+will be used by default, but you can force it by adding
+:code:`-DPython_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS=3` to the cmake command.
+
GUDHI Cythonization
===================
@@ -23,20 +30,18 @@ To build the GUDHI cython module, run the following commands in a terminal:
cmake ..
make cython
-A list of examples is available here.
-
Test suites
===========
-To test your build, `py.test <http://doc.pytest.org>`_ is required. Run the
+To test your build, `py.test <http://doc.pytest.org>`_ is optional. Run the
following command in a terminal:
.. code-block:: bash
- cd /path-to-gudhi/build/src/cython
+ cd /path-to-gudhi/build/cython
# For windows, you have to set PYTHONPATH environment variable
- export PYTHONPATH='$PYTHONPATH:/path-to-gudhi/build/src/cython'
- py.test
+ export PYTHONPATH='$PYTHONPATH:/path-to-gudhi/build/cython'
+ ctest -R py_test
Documentation
=============