
This release is an alpha release for Open Babel 3. It also removes deprecated components and breaks the API in a few places. After this, we will look at variations for particular platforms.No features or significant bug fixes were involved. The basic build procedure is the same for all platforms and will be described first. If you want to use Open Babel using one of the supported language bindingsthen the following notes may apply. Cairo development libraries are required to support PNG depiction the libcairo2-dev package in Ubuntu. Eigen may be available through your package manager the libeigen2-dev package in Ubuntu. The following are optional when compiling Open Babel, but if not available some features will be missing.Įigen version 2 or newer is required if using the language bindings in the release. Otherwise, you could try compiling it yourself from the source code. Binary packages may be available through your package manager wx-commonwx2. If necessary, you can also compile it yourself from the source code.

This is available as a binary package from the KitWare website alternatively, it may be available through your package manager on Linux.

CMake is an open source cross-platform build system from KitWare. Open Babel uses CMake as its build system. The source code for the latest release of Open Babel. If this is not available for your Linux distribution, you should compile Open Babel yourself. In general, we recommend using the latest release of Open Babel currently 3. The latest version can be download from GitHub. It includes several command-line tools as well as a graphical user interface GUI.

Open Babel is available as a binary installer for Windows, both bit preferred or bit indicated by x86 in the filename.
INSTALL OPEN BABEL FOR MAC INSTALL
You can either install a binary package the easiest option or compile Open Babel yourself also easy, but much more geek cred.
