C Installation Instructions

Requirements

First, you must prepare the installation by following the base installation Instructions.

If you want to test your installation, you need to install the following dependencies:

Steps

Now, the rest of the C installation instructions are fairly simple:

  1. change into the correct directory:

    $ cd path/to/qiskit-fermions

  2. compile the cext crate:

    $ make cext

  3. verify that everything worked by running the C API tests:

    $ make testc

You should now find these relevant files:

  • dist/c/lib/libqiskit_fermions.so (the suffix can vary depending on your OS)

  • dist/c/include/qiskit_fermions.h