conda-forge / pip support?

[LZWlizewei]

Hi! I'm trying out MuMax+ and really like the Python interface.

Are there any plans to distribute it via pip or conda-forge? It would be really helpful for integrating MuMax+ into larger research workflows and other Python-based tools. Or is building from source expected for the foreseeable future?

Thanks!
Zewei Li

[JonathanMaes]

Hi!
This is on our to-do list, but the dependency on CUDA makes it rather complicated to publish mumax+ on pip.
Different drivers may require mumax+ to be compiled with different CUDA versions, but pip has no concept of GPUs. conda-forge seems more advanced in its support for CUDA.

It would indeed be very useful to have mumax+ installable without having to compile it yourself, so I'll have another look at this issue to see if any improvements have been made by pip or NVIDIA to make this process simpler.

[JonathanMaes]

The newly released version of mumax+ can now be installed through pip (without having to install any C++/CUDA compiler) via the command

pip install mumaxplus -f https://github.com/mumax/plus/releases/expanded_assets/v1.2.1

if you have a sufficiently recent GPU. Sadly, a simple pip install mumaxplus does not (yet?) work since a mumax+ wheel is larger than the maximum file size allowed on PyPI (100MB).

See the installation instructions for more details and alternatives.