Quick Setup

Table of Contents

• Download and Installation
  • Install with conda and bioconda (Linux)
  • Install with Homebrew (Linux, macOS)
  • Compile from source

Learning Objective:
In this short guide you will learn how to set up Raptor or how to compile a specific version.

Difficulty	Easy
Duration	30 Minutes
Prerequisite tutorials	No prerequisites
Recommended reading

Download and Installation

There may be performance benefits when compiling from source as the build can be optimized for the host system.

Install with conda and bioconda (Linux)

conda install -c bioconda -c conda-forge raptor

Install with Homebrew (Linux, macOS)

brew install brewsci/bio/raptor

Compile from source

Prerequisites (click to expand)

• CMake >= 3.8
• GCC 10, 11 or 12 (most recent minor version)
• git

Refer to the Seqan3 Setup Tutorial for more in depth information.

Download current main branch (click to expand)

git clone https://github.com/seqan/raptor
git submodule update --init

Download specific version (click to expand)

E.g., for version 1.1.0:

git clone --branch raptor-v1.1.0 --recurse-submodules https://github.com/seqan/raptor

Or from within an existing repository

git checkout raptor-v1.1.0

Building (click to expand)

cd raptor
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make

The binary can be found in bin.

You may want to add the Raptor executable to your PATH:

export PATH=$(pwd)/bin:$PATH
raptor --version

By default, Raptor will be built with host specific optimizations (-march=native). This behavior can be disabled by passing -DRAPTOR_NATIVE_BUILD=OFF to CMake.