Building tket and pytket without conan

September 25, 2026 · View on GitHub

It is possible to build tket (including tests) and pytket without using conan to manage the packages. This may be useful in some contexts, but is not used for official releases. The scripts below were developed for Linux and have not been tested on other platforms.

For convenience, set a few environment variables:

TKET_DIR: the root directory of this repo
INSTALL_DIR: a directory where libraries will be installed
TMP_DIR: a directory where external sources will be downloaded and built

Installing external dependencies

The versions should match the current requirements as specified in the relevant conanfile.py. Those specified below are correct for pytket 1.15.0.

(Some of these may be installed already in system directories.)

`boost`

cd ${TMP_DIR}
wget https://archives.boost.io/release/1.91.0/source/boost_1_91_0.tar.gz
tar xzvf boost_1_91_0.tar.gz
cd boost_1_91_0/
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=${INSTALL_DIR}
./b2
./b2 install

`gmp`

cd ${TMP_DIR}
wget https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.3.0.tar.bz2
bzip2 -dk gmp-6.3.0.tar.bz2
tar xvf gmp-6.3.0.tar
cd gmp-6.3.0/
./configure --prefix=${INSTALL_DIR} --enable-cxx=yes
make
make check
make install

`symengine`

cd ${TMP_DIR}
wget https://github.com/symengine/symengine/archive/refs/tags/v0.14.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf v0.14.0.tar.gz
cd symengine-0.14.0/
sed -i -e 's/cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)/cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)/g' cmake/SymEngineConfig.cmake.in
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF -DBUILD_BENCHMARKS=OFF -DWITH_SYMENGINE_THREAD_SAFE=ON ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`eigen`

cd ${TMP_DIR}
wget https://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen/-/archive/5.0.1/eigen-5.0.1.tar.bz2
bzip2 -dk eigen-5.0.1.tar.bz2
tar xvf eigen-5.0.1.tar
cd eigen-5.0.1/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`nlohmann_json`

cd ${TMP_DIR}
wget https://github.com/nlohmann/json/releases/download/v3.12.0/json.tar.xz
tar xvf json.tar.xz
cd json/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DJSON_BuildTests=OFF ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`catch2` (needed for tests)

cd ${TMP_DIR}
wget https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2/archive/refs/tags/v3.16.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf v3.16.0.tar.gz
cd Catch2-3.16.0/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`rapidcheck` (needed for property tests)

cd ${TMP_DIR}
https://github.com/emil-e/rapidcheck/archive/ff6af6fc683159deb51c543b065eba14dfcf329b.zip
unzip ff6af6fc683159deb51c543b065eba14dfcf329b.zip
cd rapidcheck-ff6af6fc683159deb51c543b065eba14dfcf329b/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tsl-robin-map` (needed for nanobind)

cd ${TMP_DIR}
wget https://github.com/Tessil/robin-map/archive/v1.4.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf v1.4.0.tar.gz
cd robin-map-1.4.0/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ..
cmake --build . -j2
cmake --install .

`nanobind` (needed for pytket)

cd ${TMP_DIR}
wget https://github.com/wjakob/nanobind/archive/refs/tags/v3.1.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf v3.1.0.tar.gz
cd nanobind-3.1.0/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DNB_TEST=OFF -DNB_USE_SUBMODULE_DEPS=OFF ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

TKET utility libraries

`tklog`

cd ${TKET_DIR}/libs/tklog/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tklog` (shared library, needed for pytket)

cd ${TKET_DIR}/libs/tklog/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1 ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tkrng`

cd ${TKET_DIR}/libs/tkrng/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tkassert`

cd ${TKET_DIR}/libs/tkassert/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tkwsm`

cd ${TKET_DIR}/libs/tkwsm/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tktokenswap`

cd ${TKET_DIR}/libs/tktokenswap/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=ON ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tket`

cd ${TKET_DIR}/tket
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tket` with tests and proptests

This needs the static tklog and tket libraries to be installed.

cd ${TKET_DIR}/tket/test
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DBUILD_TKET_TEST=ON -DBUILD_TKET_PROPTEST=ON ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`tket` (shared library, for pytket)

cd ${TKET_DIR}/tket
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH="\${ORIGIN}" ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .

`pytket`

This needs the shared tklog and tket libraries to be installed.

cd ${TKET_DIR}/pytket
NO_CONAN=1 pip install -v -e .

(You can use the environment variable PYTKET_CMAKE_N_THREADS to restrict the number of threads used in the above command; otherwise one thread per CPU is used.)

`tket-c-api`

cd ${TKET_DIR}/tket-c-api
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${INSTALL_DIR} ..
cmake --build .
cmake --install .