This repository hosts the recipe to build the Python interface for Cantera into a conda package. The package is built on GitHub Actions and uploaded to Anaconda.org automatically.

Cheatsheet

Prerequisites

• Create and activate a conda environment with conda-build installed

Default build

The following instructions will build:

• The latest version of the main branch from https://github.com/Cantera/cantera
• For the version of Python installed in the base environment
• For some unspecified default version of NumPy

git clone https://github.com/Cantera/conda-recipes
cd conda-recipes
conda build cantera

Building for a different version of Python and NumPy

conda build --python=X.Y --numpy=U.V

Building for a local development branch of Cantera

export CANTERA_GIT=/path/to/cantera/repo
export INCOMING_REF=branch-name-or-commit-hash
conda build ./cantera
conda build ./cantera-matlab

Building the MATLAB toolbox

export MW_HEADERS_DIR=/Applications/MATLAB_R2023a.app
conda build ./cantera-matlab