.. _chapter-installation:

============
Installation
============

.. _section-dependencies:

Dependencies
============

 .. note ::

    Starting with version 2.2, Ceres Solver requires a **fully
    C++17-compliant** compiler.

Ceres relies on a number of open source libraries, some of which are
optional. For details on customizing the build process, see
:ref:`section-customizing` .

- `CMake <http://www.cmake.org>`_ (**required**) 3.16 or later.

- `Eigen <http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page>`_
  (**Required**) 3.3.4 or later.

  .. NOTE ::

    Ceres can also use Eigen as a sparse linear algebra
    library. Please see the documentation for ``EIGENSPARSE`` for
    more details.

- `Abseil <https://abseil.io/>`_ (**Required**) 20240116 or later.

- `GoogleTest <https://github.com/google/googletest>`_ (**Optional**;
  Required if you wish to build and run tests) 1.14.0 or later.

- `SuiteSparse <http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html>`_
  (**Optional; strongly recommended for large problems**) 4.5.6 or
  later. Needed for solving large sparse linear systems.

  .. NOTE ::

     If SuiteSparseQR is found, Ceres attempts to find the Intel
     Thread Building Blocks (TBB) library. If found, Ceres assumes
     SuiteSparseQR was compiled with TBB support and will link to the
     found TBB version. You can customize the searched TBB location
     with the ``TBB_ROOT`` variable.

- `Apple's Accelerate sparse solvers
  <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/accelerate/sparse_solvers>`_. (**Optional**)

  As of Xcode 9.0, Apple's Accelerate framework includes support for
  solving sparse linear systems across macOS, iOS et al.

- `BLAS <http://www.netlib.org/blas/>`_ and `LAPACK
  <http://www.netlib.org/lapack/>`_ (**Optional but required for**
  ``SuiteSparse``) ``LAPACK`` and ``BLAS`` routines are needed by
  ``SuiteSparse``, and optionally used by Ceres directly for some
  operations.

  For best performance on ``x86`` based Linux systems we recommend
  using `Intel MKL
  <https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/documentation/get-started-with-mkl-for-dpcpp/top.html>`_.

  Two other good options are `ATLAS
  <http://math-atlas.sourceforge.net/>`_, which includes ``BLAS`` and
  ``LAPACK`` routines and `OpenBLAS
  <https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS>`_ . However, one needs to be
  careful to `turn off the threading
  <https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/wiki/faq#wiki-multi-threaded>`_
  inside ``OpenBLAS`` as it conflicts with use of threads in Ceres.

  MacOS ships with an optimized ``LAPACK`` and ``BLAS``
  implementation as part of the ``Accelerate`` framework. The Ceres
  build system will automatically detect and use it.

  For Windows things are much more complicated. `LAPACK For
  Windows <http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-for-windows/lapack/>`_
  has detailed instructions.


- `CUDA <https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit>`_ and `cuDSS
  <https://developer.nvidia.com/cudss>`_ (**Optional**)

  If you have an NVIDIA GPU then Ceres Solver can use it accelerate
  the solution of the Gauss-Newton linear systems using the CMake flag
  ``USE_CUDA``.

  This support depends on two libraries from NVIDIA `CUDA` and `cuDSS`.

  If ``CUDA`` is available, Ceres Solver is able to use
  GPU acceleration to speed up ``DENSE_QR``, ``DENSE_NORMAL_CHOLESKY``
  and ``DENSE_SCHUR`` and ``CGNR``.  This also enables ``CUDA`` based
  mixed precision solves for ``DENSE_NORMAL_CHOLESKY`` and
  ``DENSE_SCHUR``.

  Additionally if ``cuDSS`` is also available then GPU acceleration can
  be used for ``SPARSE_NORMAL_CHOLESKY`` and ``SPARSE_SCHUR``.

.. _section-source:

Getting the source code
=======================


You can start with the `latest stable release
<http://ceres-solver.org/ceres-solver-2.2.0.tar.gz>`_ . Or if you want
the latest version, you can clone the git repository

.. code-block:: bash

   git clone https://ceres-solver.googlesource.com/ceres-solver

If your system does not have recent enough versions of `Abseil
<https://abseil.io/>`_ and/or `GoogleTest
<https://github.com/google/googletest>`_, then you can use the
versions included with Ceres Solver as submodules by using the command

.. code-block:: bash

   git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver


.. _section-linux:

Linux
=====

We will use `Ubuntu <http://www.ubuntu.com>`_ as our example linux
distribution.

.. NOTE::

   Ceres Solver always supports the previous and current Ubuntu LTS
   releases, currently 22.04 and 24.04 using the default Ubuntu
   repositories and compiler toolchain. Support for earlier versions
   is not guaranteed or maintained.

Start by installing all the dependencies.

.. code-block:: bash

     # CMake
     sudo apt-get install cmake
     # google-glog + gflags
     sudo apt-get install libgoogle-glog-dev libgflags-dev
     # Use ATLAS for BLAS & LAPACK
     sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
     # Eigen3
     sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev
     # SuiteSparse (optional)
     sudo apt-get install libsuitesparse-dev

We are now ready to build, test, and install Ceres.

.. code-block:: bash

 tar zxf ceres-solver-2.2.0.tar.gz
 mkdir ceres-bin
 cd ceres-bin
 cmake ../ceres-solver-2.2.0
 make -j3
 make test
 # Optionally install Ceres, it can also be exported using CMake which
 # allows Ceres to be used without requiring installation, see the documentation
 # for the EXPORT_BUILD_DIR option for more information.
 make install

You can also try running the command line bundling application with one of the
included problems, which comes from the University of Washington's BAL
dataset [Agarwal]_.

.. code-block:: bash

 bin/simple_bundle_adjuster ../ceres-solver-2.2.0/data/problem-16-22106-pre.txt

This runs Ceres for a maximum of 10 iterations using the
``DENSE_SCHUR`` linear solver. The output should look something like
this.

.. code-block:: bash

    iter      cost      cost_change  |gradient|   |step|    tr_ratio  tr_radius  ls_iter  iter_time  total_time
       0  4.185660e+06    0.00e+00    1.09e+08   0.00e+00   0.00e+00  1.00e+04        0    2.18e-02    6.57e-02
       1  1.062590e+05    4.08e+06    8.99e+06   0.00e+00   9.82e-01  3.00e+04        1    5.07e-02    1.16e-01
       2  4.992817e+04    5.63e+04    8.32e+06   3.19e+02   6.52e-01  3.09e+04        1    4.75e-02    1.64e-01
       3  1.899774e+04    3.09e+04    1.60e+06   1.24e+02   9.77e-01  9.26e+04        1    4.74e-02    2.11e-01
       4  1.808729e+04    9.10e+02    3.97e+05   6.39e+01   9.51e-01  2.78e+05        1    4.75e-02    2.59e-01
       5  1.803399e+04    5.33e+01    1.48e+04   1.23e+01   9.99e-01  8.33e+05        1    4.74e-02    3.06e-01
       6  1.803390e+04    9.02e-02    6.35e+01   8.00e-01   1.00e+00  2.50e+06        1    4.76e-02    3.54e-01

    Solver Summary (v 2.2.0-eigen-(3.4.0)-lapack-suitesparse-(7.1.0)-metis-(5.1.0)-acceleratesparse-eigensparse)

                                         Original                  Reduced
    Parameter blocks                        22122                    22122
    Parameters                              66462                    66462
    Residual blocks                         83718                    83718
    Residuals                              167436                   167436

    Minimizer                        TRUST_REGION

    Dense linear algebra library            EIGEN
    Trust region strategy     LEVENBERG_MARQUARDT
                                            Given                     Used
    Linear solver                     DENSE_SCHUR              DENSE_SCHUR
    Threads                                     1                        1
    Linear solver ordering              AUTOMATIC                 22106,16
    Schur structure                         2,3,9                    2,3,9

    Cost:
    Initial                          4.185660e+06
    Final                            1.803390e+04
    Change                           4.167626e+06

    Minimizer iterations                        7
    Successful steps                            7
    Unsuccessful steps                          0

    Time (in seconds):
    Preprocessor                         0.043895

      Residual only evaluation           0.029855 (7)
      Jacobian & residual evaluation     0.120581 (7)
      Linear solver                      0.153665 (7)
    Minimizer                            0.339275

    Postprocessor                        0.000540
    Total                                0.383710

    Termination:                      CONVERGENCE (Function tolerance reached. |cost_change|/cost: 1.769759e-09 <= 1.000000e-06)


.. section-macos:

macOS
=====

On macOS, you can either use `Homebrew <https://brew.sh/>`_
(recommended) or `MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/>`_ to install
Ceres Solver.

If using `Homebrew <https://brew.sh/>`_, then

.. code-block:: bash

      brew install ceres-solver

will install the latest stable version along with all the required
dependencies and

.. code-block:: bash

      brew install ceres-solver --HEAD

will install the latest version in the git repo.

If using `MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/>`_, then

.. code-block:: bash

   sudo port install ceres-solver

will install the latest version.

You can also install each of the dependencies by hand using `Homebrew
<https://brew.sh/>`_. There is no need to install
``BLAS`` or ``LAPACK`` separately as macOS ships with optimized
``BLAS`` and ``LAPACK`` routines as part of the `vecLib
<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Performance/Conceptual/vecLib/Reference/reference.html>`_
framework.

.. code-block:: bash

      # CMake
      brew install cmake
      # google-glog and gflags
      brew install glog gflags
      # Eigen3
      brew install eigen
      # SuiteSparse
      brew install suite-sparse

We are now ready to build, test, and install Ceres.

.. code-block:: bash

   tar zxf ceres-solver-2.2.0.tar.gz
   mkdir ceres-bin
   cd ceres-bin
   cmake ../ceres-solver-2.2.0
   make -j3
   make test
   # Optionally install Ceres, it can also be exported using CMake which
   # allows Ceres to be used without requiring installation, see the
   # documentation for the EXPORT_BUILD_DIR option for more information.
   make install

.. _section-windows:

Windows
=======

Using a Library Manager
-----------------------

`vcpkg <https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg>`_ is a library manager for Microsoft
Windows that can be used to install Ceres Solver and all its dependencies.

#. Install the library manager into a top-level directory ``vcpkg/`` on Windows
   following the `guide
   <https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg#quick-start-windows>`_, e.g., using
   Visual Studio 2022 community edition, or simply run

    .. code:: bat

        git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
        cd vcpkg
        .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat
        .\vcpkg integrate install

#. Use vcpkg to install and build Ceres and all its dependencies, e.g., for 64
   bit Windows

   .. code:: bat

      vcpkg\vcpkg.exe install ceres:x64-windows

   Or with optional components, e.g., SuiteSparse, using

   .. code:: bat

      vcpkg\vcpkg.exe install ceres[suitesparse]:x64-windows

#. Integrate vcpkg packages with Visual Studio to allow it to automatically
   find all the libraries installed by vcpkg.

   .. code:: bat

      vcpkg\vcpkg.exe integrate install

#. To use Ceres in a CMake project, follow our :ref:`instructions
   <section-using-ceres>`.


Building from Source
--------------------

Ceres Solver can also be built from source. For this purpose, we support Visual
Studio 2019 and newer.

.. NOTE::

  If you find the following CMake difficult to set up, then you may
  be interested in a `Microsoft Visual Studio wrapper
  <https://github.com/tbennun/ceres-windows>`_ for Ceres Solver by Tal
  Ben-Nun.

#. Create a top-level directory for dependencies, build, and sources somewhere,
   e.g., ``ceres/``

#. Get dependencies; unpack them as subdirectories in ``ceres/``
   (``ceres/eigen``, ``ceres/glog``, etc.)

   #. ``Eigen`` 3.3.4 . Configure and optionally install Eigen. It should be
      exported into the CMake package registry by default as part of the
      configure stage so installation should not be necessary.

   #. ``google-glog`` Open up the Visual Studio solution and build it.
   #. ``gflags`` Open up the Visual Studio solution and build it.

   #. (Experimental) ``SuiteSparse`` Previously SuiteSparse was not
      available on Windows, recently it has become possible to build
      it on Windows using the `suitesparse-metis-for-windows
      <https://github.com/jlblancoc/suitesparse-metis-for-windows>`_
      project.  If you wish to use ``SuiteSparse``, follow their
      instructions for obtaining and building it.

      Alternatively, Ceres Solver supports ``SuiteSparse`` binary
      packages available for Visual Studio 2019 and 2022 provided by
      the `CMake support for SuiteSparse
      <https://github.com/sergiud/SuiteSparse>`_ project that also
      include `reference LAPACK <http://www.netlib.org/blas>`_ (and
      BLAS). The binary packages are used by Ceres Solver for
      continuous testing on Github.

#. Unpack the Ceres tarball into ``ceres``. For the tarball, you
   should get a directory inside ``ceres`` similar to
   ``ceres-solver-2.2.0``. Alternately, checkout Ceres via ``git`` to
   get ``ceres-solver.git`` inside ``ceres``.

#. Install ``CMake``,

#. Create a directory ``ceres/ceres-bin`` (for an out-of-tree build)

   #. If you use the above binary ``SuiteSparse`` package, make sure CMake can
      find it, e.g., by assigning the path of the directory that contains the
      unzipped contents to the ``CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH`` environment variable. In a
      Windows command prompt this can be achieved as follows:

      .. code:: bat

        export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=C:/Downloads/SuiteSparse-5.11.0-cmake.1-vc16-Win64-Release-shared-gpl

#. Run ``CMake``; select the ``ceres-solver-X.Y.Z`` or
   ``ceres-solver.git`` directory for the CMake file. Then select the
   ``ceres-bin`` for the build directory.

#. Try running ``Configure`` which can fail at first because some dependencies
   cannot be automatically located. In this case, you must set the following
   CMake variables to the appropriate directories where you unpacked/built them:

   #. ``Eigen3_DIR`` (Set to directory containing ``Eigen3Config.cmake``)
   #. ``GLOG_INCLUDE_DIR_HINTS``
   #. ``GLOG_LIBRARY_DIR_HINTS``
   #. (Optional) ``gflags_DIR`` (Set to directory containing ``gflags-config.cmake``)
   #. (SuiteSparse binary package) ``BLAS_blas_LIBRARY`` and
      ``LAPACK_lapack_LIBRARY`` CMake variables must be `explicitly set` to
      ``<path>/lib/blas.lib`` and ``<path>/lib/lapack.lib``, respectively, both
      located in the unzipped package directory ``<path>``.

   If any of the variables are not visible in the ``CMake`` GUI, create a new
   entry for them.  We recommend using the
   ``<NAME>_(INCLUDE/LIBRARY)_DIR_HINTS`` variables rather than setting the
   ``<NAME>_INCLUDE_DIR`` & ``<NAME>_LIBRARY`` variables directly to keep all of
   the validity checking, and to avoid having to specify the library files
   manually.

#. You may have to tweak some more settings to generate a MSVC
   project.  After each adjustment, try pressing Configure & Generate
   until it generates successfully.

#. Open the solution and build it in MSVC


To run the tests, select the ``RUN_TESTS`` target and hit **Build
RUN_TESTS** from the build menu.

Like the Linux build, you should now be able to run
``bin/simple_bundle_adjuster``.

.. note::

    #. The default build is ``Debug``; consider switching it to ``Release`` for
       optimal performance.
    #. CMake puts the resulting test binaries in ``ceres-bin/examples/Debug`` by
       default.
    #. Without a sparse linear algebra library, only a subset of
       solvers is usable, namely: ``DENSE_QR``, ``DENSE_SCHUR``,
       ``CGNR``, and ``ITERATIVE_SCHUR``.


.. _section-android:

Android
=======

.. NOTE::

    You will need Android NDK r15 or higher to build Ceres solver.

To build Ceres for Android, we need to force ``CMake`` to find
the toolchains from the Android NDK instead of using the standard
ones. For example, assuming you have specified ``$NDK_DIR``:

.. code-block:: bash

    cmake \
    -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=\
        $NDK_DIR/build/cmake/android.toolchain.cmake \
    -DEigen3_DIR=/path/to/Eigen3Config.cmake \
    -DANDROID_ABI=arm64-v8a \
    -DANDROID_STL=c++_shared \
    -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=android-29 \
    -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
    -DMINIGLOG=ON \
    <PATH_TO_CERES_SOURCE>

You can build for any Android STL or ABI, but the c++_shared STL
and the armeabi-v7a or arm64-v8a ABI are recommended for 32bit
and 64bit architectures, respectively. Several API levels may
be supported, but it is recommended that you use the highest
level that is suitable for your Android project.

.. NOTE::

    You must always use the same API level and STL library for
    your Android project and the Ceres binaries.

After building, you get a ``libceres.so`` library, which you can
link in your Android build system by using a
``PREBUILT_SHARED_LIBRARY`` target in your build script.

If you are building any Ceres samples and would like to verify
your library, you will need to place them in an executable public
directory together with ``libceres.so`` on your Android device
(e.g. in /data/local/tmp) and ensure that the STL library from
your NDK is present in that same directory. You may then execute
the sample by running for example:

.. code-block:: bash

    adb shell
    cd /data/local/tmp
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/data/local/tmp ./helloworld

Note that any solvers or other shared dependencies you include in
your project must also be present in your android build config and
your test directory on Android.

.. _section-ios:

iOS
===

.. NOTE::

   You need iOS version 7.0 or higher to build Ceres Solver.

To build Ceres for iOS, we need to force ``CMake`` to find the
toolchains from the iOS SDK instead of using the standard ones. For
example:

.. code-block:: bash

   cmake \
   -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../ceres-solver/cmake/iOS.cmake \
   -DEigen3_DIR=/path/to/Eigen3Config.cmake \
   -DIOS_PLATFORM=<PLATFORM> \
   <PATH_TO_CERES_SOURCE>

``PLATFORM`` can be: ``OS``, ``SIMULATOR`` or ``SIMULATOR64``. You can
build for ``OS`` (``armv7``, ``armv7s``, ``arm64``), ``SIMULATOR``
(``i386``) or ``SIMULATOR64`` (``x86_64``) separately and use ``lipo``
to merge them into one static library.  See ``cmake/iOS.cmake`` for
more options.

.. NOTE::

   iOS version 11.0+ requires a 64-bit architecture, so you cannot
   build for armv7/armv7s with iOS 11.0+ (only arm64 is supported).

After building, you will get a ``libceres.a`` library, which you will
need to add to your Xcode project.

The default CMake configuration builds a bare bones version of Ceres
Solver that only depends on Eigen (``MINIGLOG`` is compiled into Ceres
if it is used), this should be sufficient for solving small to
moderate sized problems.

If you decide to use ``LAPACK`` and ``BLAS``, then you also need to
add ``Accelerate.framework`` to your Xcode project's linking
dependency.

.. _section-customizing:

Customizing the build
=====================

It is possible to reduce the libraries needed to build Ceres and
customize the build process by setting the appropriate options in
``CMake``.  These options can either be set in the ``CMake`` GUI, or
via ``-D<OPTION>=<ON/OFF>`` when running ``CMake`` from the command
line.  In general, you should only modify these options from their
defaults if you know what you are doing.

.. NOTE::

 If you are setting variables via ``-D<VARIABLE>=<VALUE>`` when
 calling ``CMake``, it is important to understand that this forcibly
 **overwrites** the variable ``<VARIABLE>`` in the ``CMake`` cache at
 the start of *every configure*.

 This can lead to confusion if you are invoking the ``CMake`` `curses
 <http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html>`_ terminal GUI
 (via ``ccmake``, e.g. ```ccmake -D<VARIABLE>=<VALUE>
 <PATH_TO_SRC>``).  In this case, even if you change the value of
 ``<VARIABLE>`` in the ``CMake`` GUI, your changes will be
 **overwritten** with the value passed via ``-D<VARIABLE>=<VALUE>``
 (if one exists) at the start of each configure.

 As such, it is generally easier not to pass values to ``CMake`` via
 ``-D`` and instead interactively experiment with their values in the
 ``CMake`` GUI.  If they are not present in the *Standard View*,
 toggle to the *Advanced View* with ``<t>``.


Modifying default compilation flags
-----------------------------------

The ``CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS`` variable can be used to define additional
default compilation flags for all build types.  Any flags specified
in ``CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS`` will be used in addition to the default
flags used by Ceres for the current build type.

For example, if you wished to build Ceres with `-march=native
<https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/x86-Options.html>`_ which is not
enabled by default (even if ``CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release``) you would invoke
CMake with:

.. code-block:: bash

       cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-march=native" <PATH_TO_CERES_SOURCE>

.. NOTE ::

    The use of ``-march=native`` will limit portability, as it will tune the
    implementation to the specific CPU of the compiling machine (e.g. use of
    AVX if available).  Run-time segfaults may occur if you then tried to
    run the resulting binaries on a machine with a different processor, even
    if it is from the same family (e.g. x86) if the specific options available
    are different.  Note that the performance gains from the use of
    ``-march=native`` are not guaranteed to be significant.

.. _options-controlling-ceres-configuration:

Options controlling Ceres configuration
---------------------------------------

#. ``LAPACK [Default: ON]``: If this option is enabled, and the ``BLAS`` and
   ``LAPACK`` libraries are found, Ceres will enable **direct** use of
   ``LAPACK`` routines (i.e. Ceres itself will call them).  If this option is
   disabled, then Ceres will not require ``LAPACK`` or ``BLAS``.  It is
   however still possible that Ceres may call ``LAPACK`` routines indirectly
   via SuiteSparse if ``LAPACK=OFF`` and ``SUITESPARSE=ON``.  Finally
   note that if ``LAPACK=ON`` and ``SUITESPARSE=ON``, the ``LAPACK`` and
   ``BLAS`` libraries used by SuiteSparse and Ceres should be the same.

#. ``SUITESPARSE [Default: ON]``: By default, Ceres will link to
   ``SuiteSparse`` if it and all of its dependencies are present. Turn
   this ``OFF`` to build Ceres without ``SuiteSparse``.

   .. NOTE::

      SuiteSparse is licensed under a mixture of GPL/LGPL/Commercial
      terms.  Ceres requires some components that are only licensed under
      GPL/Commercial terms.

#. ``ACCELERATESPARSE [Default: ON]``: By default, Ceres will link to
   Apple's Accelerate framework directly if a version of it is detected
   which supports solving sparse linear systems.  Note that on Apple OSs
   Accelerate usually also provides the BLAS/LAPACK implementations and
   so would be linked against irrespective of the value of ``ACCELERATESPARSE``.

#. ``EIGENSPARSE [Default: ON]``: By default, Ceres will use Eigen's
   sparse Cholesky factorization.

#. ``GFLAGS [Default: ON]``: Turn this ``OFF`` to build Ceres without
   ``gflags``. This will also prevent some of the example code from
   building.

#. ``MINIGLOG [Default: OFF]``: Ceres includes a stripped-down,
   minimal implementation of ``glog`` which can optionally be used as
   a substitute for ``glog``, thus removing ``glog`` as a required
   dependency. Turn this ``ON`` to use this minimal ``glog``
   implementation.

#. ``SCHUR_SPECIALIZATIONS [Default: ON]``: If you are concerned about
   binary size/compilation time over some small (10-20%) performance
   gains in the ``SPARSE_SCHUR`` solver, you can disable some of the
   template specializations by turning this ``OFF``.

#. ``BUILD_SHARED_LIBS [Default: OFF]``: By default Ceres is built as
   a static library, turn this ``ON`` to instead build Ceres as a
   shared library.

#. ``EXPORT_BUILD_DIR [Default: OFF]``: By default Ceres is configured
   solely for installation, and so must be installed in order for
   clients to use it.  Turn this ``ON`` to export Ceres' build
   directory location into the `user's local CMake package registry
   <http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/manual/cmake-packages.7.html#user-package-registry>`_
   where it will be detected **without requiring installation** in a
   client project using CMake when `find_package(Ceres)
   <http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/find_package.html>`_
   is invoked.

#. ``BUILD_DOCUMENTATION [Default: OFF]``: Use this to enable building
   the documentation, requires `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_ and
   the `sphinx-rtd-theme
   <https://pypi.org/project/sphinx-rtd-theme/>`_ package
   available from the Python package index. In addition, ``make
   ceres_docs`` can be used to build only the documentation.

#. ``MSVC_USE_STATIC_CRT [Default: OFF]`` *Windows Only*: By default
   Ceres will use the Visual Studio default, *shared* C-Run Time (CRT)
   library.  Turn this ``ON`` to use the *static* C-Run Time library
   instead.

#. ``LIB_SUFFIX [Default: "64" on non-Debian/Arch based 64-bit Linux,
   otherwise: ""]``: The suffix to append to the library install
   directory, built from:
   ``${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib${LIB_SUFFIX}``.

   The filesystem hierarchy standard recommends that 64-bit systems
   install native libraries to lib64 rather than lib.  Most Linux
   distributions follow this convention, but Debian and Arch based
   distros do not.  Note that the only generally sensible values for
   ``LIB_SUFFIX`` are "" and "64".

   Although by default Ceres will auto-detect non-Debian/Arch based
   64-bit Linux distributions and default ``LIB_SUFFIX`` to "64", this
   can always be overridden by manually specifying LIB_SUFFIX using:
   ``-DLIB_SUFFIX=<VALUE>`` when invoking CMake.


Options controlling Ceres dependency locations
----------------------------------------------

Ceres uses the ``CMake`` `find_package
<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/find_package.html>`_
function to find all of its dependencies. Dependencies that reliably
provide config files on all supported platforms are expected to be
found in "Config" mode of ``find_package`` (``Eigen``, ``gflags``).
This means you can use the standard ``CMake`` facilities to customize
where these dependencies are found, such as ``CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH``,
the ``<DEPENDENCY_NAME>_DIR`` variables, or since ``CMake`` 3.12 the
``<DEPENDENCY_NAME>_ROOT`` variables.

Other dependencies are found using
``Find<DEPENDENCY_NAME>.cmake`` scripts which are either included in
Ceres (for most dependencies) or are shipped as standard with
``CMake`` (for ``LAPACK`` & ``BLAS``).  These scripts will search all
of the "standard" install locations for various OSs for each
dependency.  However, particularly for Windows, they may fail to find
the library, in this case you will have to manually specify its
installed location.  The ``Find<DEPENDENCY_NAME>.cmake`` scripts
shipped with Ceres support two ways for you to do this:

#. Set the *hints* variables specifying the *directories* to search in
   preference, but in addition, to the search directories in the
   ``Find<DEPENDENCY_NAME>.cmake`` script:

   - ``<DEPENDENCY_NAME (CAPS)>_INCLUDE_DIR_HINTS``
   - ``<DEPENDENCY_NAME (CAPS)>_LIBRARY_DIR_HINTS``

   These variables should be set via ``-D<VAR>=<VALUE>``
   ``CMake`` arguments as they are not visible in the GUI.

#. Set the variables specifying the *explicit* include directory
   and library file to use:

   - ``<DEPENDENCY_NAME (CAPS)>_INCLUDE_DIR``
   - ``<DEPENDENCY_NAME (CAPS)>_LIBRARY``

   This bypasses *all* searching in the
   ``Find<DEPENDENCY_NAME>.cmake`` script, but validation is still
   performed.

   These variables are available to set in the ``CMake`` GUI. They are
   visible in the *Standard View* if the library has not been found
   (but the current Ceres configuration requires it), but are always
   visible in the *Advanced View*.  They can also be set directly via
   ``-D<VAR>=<VALUE>`` arguments to ``CMake``.

Building using custom BLAS & LAPACK installs
----------------------------------------------

If the standard find package scripts for ``BLAS`` & ``LAPACK`` which
ship with ``CMake`` fail to find the desired libraries on your system,
try setting ``CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH`` to the path(s) to the directories
containing the ``BLAS`` & ``LAPACK`` libraries when invoking ``CMake``
to build Ceres via ``-D<VAR>=<VALUE>``.  This should result in the
libraries being found for any common variant of each.

Alternatively, you may also directly specify the ``BLAS_LIBRARIES`` and
``LAPACK_LIBRARIES`` variables via ``-D<VAR>=<VALUE>`` when invoking CMake
to configure Ceres.

.. _section-using-ceres:

Using Ceres with CMake
======================

In order to use Ceres in client code with CMake using `find_package()
<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/find_package.html>`_
then either:

#. Ceres must have been installed with ``make install``.  If the
    install location is non-standard (i.e. is not in CMake's default
    search paths) then it will not be detected by default, see:
    :ref:`section-local-installations`.

    Note that if you are using a non-standard install location you
    should consider exporting Ceres instead, as this will not require
    any extra information to be provided in client code for Ceres to
    be detected.

#. Or Ceres' build directory must have been exported by enabling the
    ``EXPORT_BUILD_DIR`` option when Ceres was configured.


As an example of how to use Ceres, to compile `examples/helloworld.cc
<https://ceres-solver.googlesource.com/ceres-solver/+/master/examples/helloworld.cc>`_
in a separate standalone project, the following CMakeList.txt can be
used:

.. code-block:: cmake

    cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.5)

    project(helloworld)

    find_package(Ceres REQUIRED)

    # helloworld
    add_executable(helloworld helloworld.cc)
    target_link_libraries(helloworld Ceres::ceres)

Irrespective of whether Ceres was installed or exported, if multiple
versions are detected, set: ``Ceres_DIR`` to control which is used.
If Ceres was installed ``Ceres_DIR`` should be the path to the
directory containing the installed ``CeresConfig.cmake`` file
(e.g. ``/usr/local/lib/cmake/Ceres``).  If Ceres was exported, then
``Ceres_DIR`` should be the path to the exported Ceres build
directory.

  .. NOTE ::

     You do not need to call include_directories(${CERES_INCLUDE_DIRS})
     as the exported Ceres CMake target already contains the definitions
     of its public include directories which will be automatically
     included by CMake when compiling a target that links against Ceres.
     In fact, since v2.0 ``CERES_INCLUDE_DIRS`` is not even set.

Specify Ceres components
-------------------------------------

You can specify particular Ceres components that you require (in order
for Ceres to be reported as found) when invoking
``find_package(Ceres)``.  This allows you to specify, for example,
that you require a version of Ceres built with SuiteSparse support.
By definition, if you do not specify any components when calling
``find_package(Ceres)`` (the default) any version of Ceres detected
will be reported as found, irrespective of which components it was
built with.

The Ceres components which can be specified are:

#. ``LAPACK``: Ceres built using LAPACK (``LAPACK=ON``).

#. ``SuiteSparse``: Ceres built with SuiteSparse (``SUITESPARSE=ON``).

#. ``AccelerateSparse``: Ceres built with Apple's Accelerate sparse solvers (``ACCELERATESPARSE=ON``).

#. ``EigenSparse``: Ceres built with Eigen's sparse Cholesky factorization
   (``EIGENSPARSE=ON``).

#. ``SparseLinearAlgebraLibrary``: Ceres built with *at least one*
   sparse linear algebra library.  This is equivalent to
   ``SuiteSparse`` **OR** ``AccelerateSparse`` **OR** ``EigenSparse``.

#. ``SchurSpecializations``: Ceres built with Schur specializations
   (``SCHUR_SPECIALIZATIONS=ON``).

To specify one/multiple Ceres components use the ``COMPONENTS`` argument to
`find_package()
<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/find_package.html>`_ like so:

.. code-block:: cmake

    # Find a version of Ceres compiled with SuiteSparse & EigenSparse support.
    #
    # NOTE: This will report Ceres as **not** found if the detected version of
    #            Ceres was not compiled with both SuiteSparse & EigenSparse.
    #            Remember, if you have multiple versions of Ceres installed, you
    #            can use Ceres_DIR to specify which should be used.
    find_package(Ceres REQUIRED COMPONENTS SuiteSparse EigenSparse)


Specify Ceres version
---------------------

Additionally, when CMake has found Ceres it can optionally check the package
version, if it has been specified in the `find_package()
<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/find_package.html>`_
call.  For example:

.. code-block:: cmake

    find_package(Ceres 1.2.3 REQUIRED)

.. _section-local-installations:

Local installations
-------------------

If Ceres was installed in a non-standard path by specifying
``-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/some/where/local"``, then the user should
add the **PATHS** option to the ``find_package()`` command, e.g.,

.. code-block:: cmake

   find_package(Ceres REQUIRED PATHS "/some/where/local/")

Note that this can be used to have multiple versions of Ceres
installed.  However, particularly if you have only a single version of
Ceres which you want to use but do not wish to install to a system
location, you should consider exporting Ceres using the
``EXPORT_BUILD_DIR`` option instead of a local install, as exported
versions of Ceres will be automatically detected by CMake,
irrespective of their location.

Understanding the CMake Package System
----------------------------------------

Although a full tutorial on CMake is outside the scope of this guide,
here we cover some of the most common CMake misunderstandings that
crop up when using Ceres.  For more detailed CMake usage, the
following references are very useful:

- The `official CMake tutorial <http://www.cmake.org/cmake-tutorial/>`_

   Provides a tour of the core features of CMake.

- `ProjectConfig tutorial
  <http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Tutorials/How_to_create_a_ProjectConfig.cmake_file>`_
  and the `cmake-packages documentation
  <http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/git-master/manual/cmake-packages.7.html>`_

   Cover how to write a ``ProjectConfig.cmake`` file, discussed below,
   for your own project when installing or exporting it using CMake.
   It also covers how these processes in conjunction with
   ``find_package()`` are actually handled by CMake.  The
   `ProjectConfig tutorial
   <http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake/Tutorials/How_to_create_a_ProjectConfig.cmake_file>`_
   is the older style, currently used by Ceres for compatibility with
   older versions of CMake.

  .. NOTE :: **Targets in CMake.**

    All libraries and executables built using CMake are represented as
    *targets* created using `add_library()
    <http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/add_library.html>`_
    and `add_executable()
    <http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/add_executable.html>`_.
    Targets encapsulate the rules and dependencies (which can be other
    targets) required to build or link against an object.  This allows
    CMake to implicitly manage dependency chains.  Thus it is
    sufficient to tell CMake that a library target: ``B`` depends on a
    previously declared library target ``A``, and CMake will
    understand that this means that ``B`` also depends on all of the
    public dependencies of ``A``.

When a project like Ceres is installed using CMake, or its build
directory is exported into the local CMake package registry (see
:ref:`section-install-vs-export`), in addition to the public headers
and compiled libraries, a set of CMake-specific project configuration
files are also installed to: ``<INSTALL_ROOT>/lib/cmake/Ceres`` (if Ceres
is installed), or created in the build directory (if Ceres' build
directory is exported).  When `find_package
<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/find_package.html>`_ is
invoked, CMake checks various standard install locations (including
``/usr/local`` on Linux & UNIX systems), and the local CMake package
registry for CMake configuration files for the project to be found
(i.e. Ceres in the case of ``find_package(Ceres)``).  Specifically it
looks for:

- ``<PROJECT_NAME>Config.cmake`` (or
  ``<lower_case_project_name>-config.cmake``)

   Which is written by the developers of the project, and is
   configured with the selected options and installed locations when
   the project is built and imports the project targets and/or defines
   the legacy CMake variables: ``<PROJECT_NAME>_INCLUDE_DIRS`` &
   ``<PROJECT_NAME>_LIBRARIES`` which are used by the caller.

The ``<PROJECT_NAME>Config.cmake`` typically includes a second file
installed to the same location:

- ``<PROJECT_NAME>Targets.cmake``

   Which is autogenerated by CMake as part of the install process and defines
   **imported targets** for the project in the caller's CMake scope.

An **imported target** contains the same information about a library
as a CMake target that was declared locally in the current CMake
project using ``add_library()``.  However, imported targets refer to
objects that have already been built by a different CMake project.
Principally, an imported target contains the location of the compiled
object and all of its public dependencies required to link against it
as well as all required include directories.  Any locally declared target
can depend on an imported target, and CMake will manage the dependency
chain, just as if the imported target had been declared locally by the
current project.

Crucially, just like any locally declared CMake target, an imported target is
identified by its **name** when adding it as a dependency to another target.

Since v2.0, Ceres has used the target namespace feature of CMake to prefix
its export targets: ``Ceres::ceres``.  However, historically the Ceres target
did not have a namespace, and was just called ``ceres``.

Whilst an alias target called ``ceres`` is still provided in v2.0 for backwards
compatibility, it creates a potential drawback, if you failed to call
``find_package(Ceres)``, and Ceres is installed in a default search path for
your compiler, then instead of matching the imported Ceres target, it will
instead match the installed libceres.so/dylib/a library.  If this happens you
will get either compiler errors for missing include directories or linker errors
due to missing references to Ceres public dependencies.

Note that this description applies both to projects that are
**installed** using CMake, and to those whose **build directory is
exported** using `export()
<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/export.html>`_ (instead
of `install()
<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/command/install.html>`_).  Ceres
supports both installation and export of its build directory if the
``EXPORT_BUILD_DIR`` option is enabled, see
:ref:`section-customizing`.

.. _section-install-vs-export:

Installing a project with CMake vs Exporting its build directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When a project is **installed**, the compiled libraries and headers
are copied from the source & build directory to the install location,
and it is these copied files that are used by any client code.  When a
project's build directory is **exported**, instead of copying the
compiled libraries and headers, CMake creates an entry for the project
in the `user's local CMake package registry
<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.5/manual/cmake-packages.7.html#user-package-registry>`_,
``<USER_HOME>/.cmake/packages`` on Linux & macOS, which contains the
path to the project's build directory which will be checked by CMake
during a call to ``find_package()``.  The effect of which is that any
client code uses the compiled libraries and headers in the build
directory directly, **thus not requiring the project to be installed
to be used**.

Installing / Exporting a project that uses Ceres
--------------------------------------------------

As described in `Understanding the CMake Package System`_, the contents of
the ``CERES_LIBRARIES`` variable is the **name** of an imported target which
represents Ceres.  If you are installing / exporting your *own* project which
*uses* Ceres, it is important to understand that:

**Imported targets are not (re)exported when a project which imported them is
exported**.

Thus, when a project ``Foo`` which uses Ceres is exported, its list of
dependencies as seen by another project ``Bar`` which imports ``Foo``
via: ``find_package(Foo REQUIRED)`` will contain: ``ceres``.  However,
the definition of ``ceres`` as an imported target is **not
(re)exported** when Foo is exported.  Hence, without any additional
steps, when processing ``Bar``, ``ceres`` will not be defined as an
imported target.  Thus, when processing ``Bar``, CMake will assume
that ``ceres`` refers only to: ``libceres.a/so/dylib/lib`` (the
compiled Ceres library) directly if it is on the current list of
search paths.  In which case, no CMake errors will occur, but ``Bar``
will not link properly, as it does not have the required public link
dependencies of Ceres, which are stored in the imported target
definition.

The solution to this is for ``Foo`` (i.e., the project that uses
Ceres) to invoke ``find_package(Ceres)`` in ``FooConfig.cmake``, thus
``ceres`` will be defined as an imported target when CMake processes
``Bar``.  An example of the required modifications to
``FooConfig.cmake`` are show below:

.. code-block:: cmake

    # Importing Ceres in FooConfig.cmake using CMake 3.x style.
    #
    # In CMake v3.x, the find_dependency() macro exists to forward the REQUIRED
    # / QUIET parameters to find_package() when searching for dependencies.
    #
    # Note that find_dependency() does not take a path hint, so if Ceres was
    # installed in a non-standard location, that location must be added to
    # CMake's search list before this call.
    include(CMakeFindDependencyMacro)
    find_dependency(Ceres)

.. _section-migration:

Migration
=========

The following includes some hints for migrating from previous versions.

Version 2.0
-----------

- When using Ceres with CMake, the target name in v2.0 is
  ``Ceres::ceres`` following modern naming conventions. The legacy
  target ``ceres`` exists for backwards compatibility, but is
  deprecated. ``CERES_INCLUDE_DIRS`` is not set any more, as the
  exported Ceres CMake target already contains the definitions of its
  public include directories which will be automatically included by
  CMake when compiling a target that links against Ceres.
- When building Ceres, some dependencies (Eigen, gflags) are not found
  using custom ``Find<DEPENDENCY_NAME>.cmake`` modules any
  more. Hence, instead of the custom variables (``<DEPENDENCY_NAME (CAPS)>_INCLUDE_DIR_HINTS``,
  ``<DEPENDENCY_NAME (CAPS)>_INCLUDE_DIR``, ...) you should use standard
  CMake facilities to customize where these dependencies are found, such as
  ``CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH``, the ``<DEPENDENCY_NAME>_DIR`` variables, or
  since CMake 3.12 the ``<DEPENDENCY_NAME>_ROOT`` variables.
- While TBB is not used any more directly by Ceres, it might still try
  to link against it, if SuiteSparseQR was found. The variable (environment
  or CMake) to customize this is ``TBB_ROOT`` (used to be ``TBBROOT``).
  For example, use ``cmake -DTBB_ROOT=/opt/intel/tbb ...`` if you want to
  link against TBB installed from Intel's binary packages on Linux.