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Installation instructions

staq is a full-stack quantum processing toolkit that uses CMake as its build/install system. staq is platform-independent, supporting UNIX (including macOS) and UNIX-like operating systems (e.g., Linux), as well as Windows.

Pre-requisites

  • CMake

  • pp+17 compliant compiler, e.g., gcc, clang, MSVC

  • Optional, GNU MP library for building the grid synth tools staq_grid_synth and staq_qasm_synth

UNIX/UNIX-like/Windows

To build both tool suite and the staq executable, execute (in a terminal/console/command prompt) under the project's root directory

cmake -B build

To be able to install staq's source code in addition to the binaries, configure the system with

cmake -B build -DINSTALL_SOURCES=ON

Important: If you want to build the grid synth tools staq_grid_synth and staq_qasm_synth, install the GNU MP library; cmake will take care of the rest. If cmake cannot detect GNU MP, then the grid synth tools will not be part of the build. To install GNU MP on Windows systems, please follow the platform-specific instructions below.

For more details about how to install and configure GNU MP on various platforms, see the GitHub Actions configuration file.

Next, build the staq system by executing

cmake --build build --parallel 8

The --parallel 8 flag instructs CMake to build in parallel using 8 threads, modify accordingly.

To build only the staq tool suite, execute

cmake --build build --target tools --parallel 8

To build only the staq executable, execute

cmake --build build --target staq --parallel 8

Unit tests can be built with the command

cmake --build build/unit_tests --target unit_tests --parallel 8

and run with

ctest --test-dir build

To (un)install, execute in a terminal/console (UNIX/UNIX-like systems)

sudo cmake --build build --target (un)install

or in an Administrator Command Prompt (Windows)

cmake --build build --target (un)install

If you configured the system with -DINSTALL_SOURCES=ON, staq's source code will be installed in /usr/local/include/staq (UNIX/UNIX-like systems), or in C:\Program Files (x86)\staq on Windows systems. The paths may differ on your system. To use staq's source code, precede all include paths by staq in your own code, i.e.,

#include <staq/qasmtools/parser/parser.hpp>

Third party header-only libraries used internally by staq need to be preceded by third_party when including their corresponding header file(s), i.e.,

#include <staq/third_party/CLI/CLI.hpp>

See the standalone example for more details.

macOS/Linux

If you are running macOS or Linux, you can install staq via Homebrew with

brew install staq

Windows

On Windows, we recommend to install GNU MP via vcpkg and pkgconf. Install vcpkg according to the instructions from https://vcpkg.io/en/getting-started by executing in a Command Prompt

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
.\vcpkg\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat

Next, install pkgconf and GNU MP by executing

.\vcpkg\vcpkg install pkgconf:x64-windows gmp:x64-windows

This may take a while...

Finally, configure the system with the additional flag -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=[path to vcpkg]/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake, e.g.,

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=./vckpg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake -DINSTALL_SOURCES=ON

followed by building the system as usual.

Python 3 wrapper

pystaq is a Python 3 wrapper for staq. pystaq can be installed using pip

pip install git+https://github.com/softwareQinc/staq

For more details, please see pystaq/README.md.