Installation

It is recommended to use the latest releases through pre-built packages when available. If you need the latest features or are developing libiio itself, you can build from source following guides:

Installation Packages

Pre-built packages are available for the following for a number of different platforms from GitHub as well as from different package managers.

Windows

Install the latest release from the GitHub releases page.

The EXE installer is recommend but zip packages include the same files, which can be useful for developers.

Linux

Most Linux users can install libiio from their distribution’s package manager. For example, on Ubuntu, you can install libiio with the following command:

sudo apt-get install libiio0

It can be also useful to install the development package and tools:

sudo apt-get install libiio-dev libiio-utils

Please reference your OS’s package manager for the correct package names. Alternatively, you can download the latest release from the GitHub releases page or build from source.

macOS

For macOS there are four options: