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<h1 class="center">Precompiled distributions</h1>

<p>Official binary distributions are available for Python and C#;
these should be preferred, unless you want to modify the library.</p>

<h2 class="center">QuantLib for Python</h2>
<p>Wheels are available for all common platforms and a few less common ones. To install QuantLib in your (virtual) environment, run:</p>
<pre>
  pip install QuantLib
</pre>
<p>and add</p>
<pre>
  import QuantLib as ql
</pre>
<p>to your Python code.</p>

<h2 class="center">QuantLib for C#</h2>
<p>An experimental QuantLib package is
available from NuGet.  It should work on Windows and OS X, but it's
not guaranteed to work on all Linux distributions; we'd be grateful
for any reports, either of successes or failures.  To add QuantLib to
your projects, run:</p>
<pre>
  dotnet add package QuantLib
</pre>
<p>or use any of the other methods listed <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages/QuantLib/">on the NuGet page</a>, and add</p>
<pre>
  using QuantLib;
</pre>
<p>to your C# code.</p>

<h2 class="center">QuantLib in C++</h2>
<p>There are no official binary packages, but volunteers provide them
for a number of platforms.  <b>macOS users</b> can use Homebrew or MacPorts.
<b>Debian users</b> can find the latest version of the different
QuantLib packages in the "unstable" (a.k.a. "Sid") distribution; see
the <a href=
"http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=quantlib&amp;searchon=names&amp;subword=1&amp;version=unstable&amp;release=all">
Debian site</a> for a list of available packages.  <b>Ubuntu users</b>
can use <a href="https://launchpad.net/~edd/+archive/ubuntu/misc">Dirk
Eddelbuettel's PPA</a>.  <b>Other Linux distributions</b> might also
package the library; check your sources.  Note that some of these
distributions may lag behind the upstream releases.</p>

<h1 class="center">Source distributions</h1>

<p>Official source distributions are available and should be used if a
binary distribution is not available for your platform.  If you want
to modify the library, you should fork our repository
on <a href="https://github.com/lballabio/quantlib">GitHub</a> instead.</p>

<h2 class="center">Download</h2>
<p>Source packages for <b>all platforms</b>
are available from GitHub in both zip and tar.gz format
for <a href="https://github.com/lballabio/QuantLib/releases/latest">QuantLib</a>
and <a href="https://github.com/lballabio/QuantLib-SWIG/releases/latest">QuantLib-SWIG</a>.
Compiling QuantLib
requires a working <a href="http://www.boost.org">Boost</a>
installation; Boost 1.48 or later is required, but a more recent
version is suggested. Advanced users may want
to <a href="reference/config.html">configure the library</a> with
non-default settings.</p>

<h2 class="center">Compilation from source</h2>

<p>Compilation instructions are available
for <a href="/install/vc10.shtml">Microsoft Visual C++</a>,
<a href="/install/macosx.shtml">Mac OS X</a> and
<a href="/install/linux.shtml">Linux/Unix</a>. Alternatively, you can
build QuantLib on all platforms following the
<a href="/install/cmake.shtml">CMake build instructions</a>.</p>

<p>Instructions for creating a Python wheel are available
for <a href="/install/windows-python.shtml">Windows</a>,
<a href="/install/macosx-python.shtml">Mac OS X</a> and
<a href="/install/linux-python.shtml">Linux/Unix</a>.</p>