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@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ Installation instructions ========================= -CrystFEL installation is supported on GNU/Linux (including on Windows via +CrystFEL installation is easiest on GNU/Linux. Installation on Mac OS X is +supported, but more difficult because you have to get all the dependencies +from a third-party repository. Installation in Windows via [Windows Subsystem for Linux](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/)) -and Mac OS X. A native installation on Windows is reported as possible, but is -not supported. +is also possible. Supported installations at facilities @@ -55,6 +56,12 @@ to download and install any of them separately from source. In particular, we emphatically recommend against trying to install GTK, Cairo, Pango or gdk-pixbuf from source. +We also do not recommend using dependencies from Conda/Anaconda. Do not +activate any Conda environment before compiling CrystFEL, not even the "base" +environment. Don't even "source" the Conda setup file before installing +CrystFEL - keep it completely separate. A Conda recipe for CrystFEL might be +coming soon, though, if development resources allow for it. + If OpenCL headers and corresponding GPU drivers are available on your system, GPU-accelerated diffraction calculation will be enabled for `pattern_sim`. |