Installing from sources

Prerequisites

Build dependencies

• cmake >= 3.7 (you can use both ninja and make)
• python >= 3.4
• g++ >= 10.0.0 or clang++ >= 9.0 or another c++20 compatible compiler
• tclap (argument parsing)
• libxml2
• readline

Additionally, for building also the GUI part (deprecated in favour of WebUI, standard build does not include this as of Sep 2020), you will need

• qt5-qtbase >= 5.7
• jsoncpp
• graphviz

Runtime dependencies

• libxml2
• readline
• qt5 >= 5.7 (for GUI only)
• jsoncpp (for GUI only)
• graphviz (for GUI only, optional for CLI)

Prepare

Bash helper script

U can take a look at ./build.sh bash script does all the work for you. Run with ./build.sh release will prepare and compile ALT into release directory. aql2 is then accessible in the release/aql2 directory.

CMake

ALT is built by CMake.

Simply create a build directory, navigate into it and run cmake /path/to/alt/sources. There are some ALT-specific options that you can pass to cmake:

Of course you can use other CMake generic arguments, like -GNinja, -DBUILD_TESTING, -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, etc. Refer to CMake documentation for more information.

After you did that, you can now run make and possibly make tests and make install DESTDIR=/usr/local. Doxygen job can be run with make doxygen. The HTML documentation output directory is /apidoc In case you selected ninja, you have to call ctest . instead of make tests.