This library contains code to work with mmCIF and PDB files.
The code for this library was written in C++17. You therefore need a recent compiler to build it. For the development gcc 9.3 and clang 9.0 have been used as well as MSVC version 2019.
Other requirements are:
- Boost libraries, at least version 1.70
- mrc, a resource compiler that allows including data files into the executable making them easier to install. Strictly this is optional, but at the expense of functionality.
This library uses cmake. The usual way of building
and installing is to create a build directory and run cmake there.
On linux e.g. you would issue the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/PDB-REDO/libcifpp.git
cd libcifpp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release
ctest -C Release
cmake --install .
This checks out the source code from github, creates a new directory where cmake stores its files. Run a configure, build the code and run tests. And then it installs the library and auxiliary files.
The default is to install everything in $HOME/.local on Linux and
%LOCALAPPDATA% on Windows (the AppData/Local folder in your home directory).
You can change this by specifying the prefix with the
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
variable.