Installing WarpX as a Python package

Type

make -j 4 USE_PYTHON_MAIN=TRUE

or edit the GNUmakefile and set USE_PYTHON_MAIN=TRUE, and type

make -j 4

This will compile the code, and install the Python bindings as a package (named pywarpx) in your standard Python installation (i.e. in your site-packages directory). The note on compiler options from the previous section also holds when compiling the Python package.

In case you do not have write permissions to the default Python installation (e.g. typical on computer clusters), use the following command instead:

make -j 4 PYINSTALLOPTIONS=--user

In this case, you can also set the variable PYTHONUSERBASE to set the folder where pywarpx will be installed.