Installation
Quick start
You probably want to read the FEniCS download and installation web page if you just want to get FEniCS installed as quickly as possible.
Building from source
Dependencies
DOLFIN requires a compiler that supports the C++11 standard.
The required and optional DOLFIN dependencies are listed below.
Required
Boost (http://www.boost.org), with the following compiled Boost components
filesystem
iostreams
program_options
timer
CMake (https://cmake.org)
Eigen3 (http://eigen.tuxfamily.org)
pkg-config (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/)
Python 3 (used by the build system)
zlib
Required for Python interface
Python 3 (including header files)
pybind11 (https://github.com/pybind/pybind11)
NumPy (http://www.numpy.org)
Optional
Optional for the Python interface
Matplotlib (required for plotting)
mpi4py
petsc4py
slepc4py