Installing Cairn 

Dependencies

Required dependencies

Table. 1 Required dependencies
Package	Version	Use
Python	3.10.9	Post-treatment, sensitivity studies
Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable	2015	The Visual C++ Redistributable Packages install the runtime components needed to run C++ applications built using Visual Studio 2015 (C Runtime (CRT), Standard C++, MFC, C++ AMP and OpenMP).

Optional dependencies

Table. 2 Optional dependencies
Package	Version	Use
CPLEX	20.1	Use commercial solver CPLEX

Windows
- In the documentation, CAIRN_APP refers to the root directory.
- Use the installer Cairn_r.n.m, r being the major release number and n the minor one (update) and m the bugfix version.
- Double click on the installer and follow the instructions.
- If you are using CPLEX, do not forget to check the CPLEX component, you will be asked to confirm default location later on. Specify the path to CPLEX component if relevant and at the end, click on Install.
- Python 3.10.9 and a dedicated virtual environment are needed as a pre-requisite. The virtual environment can be generated automatically by checking the box “Install virtual environment?”

Caution

You must accept the licenses.

A wheel is available in the Releases section on GitHub. To install it, run the following command:

pip install {name_of_the_wheel}.whl

Note

This package currently supports Windows only.

To use the CPLEX solver with the Python package, you must:

Required dependencies