Installing Dependencies

SeqAn can optionally make use of ZLIB and BZip2. This is relevant mostly for Input/Output. Depending on your operating system you may need to install extra packages of these libraries or their headers.

GNU/Linux

It depends on your distribution whether these packages are installed by default or not.

On Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and similar distributions:

# sudo apt install zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev

Mac and BSD

Nothing needs to be done, the libraries and their headers are pre-installed.

Windows

The downloadable contribs contain precompiled library binaries (zlib, libbz2) for Windows by the supported compilers.

Previous contribs packages are available here.

Now, extract the downloaded ZIP file either to C:\Program Files or C:\.

After downloading the 64 bit variant, you should now have a folder named C:\Program Files\seqan-contrib-D20200923-x64 or a folder named C:\seqan-contrib-D20200923-x64.