This page details how to use some of the scripts in the SupportScripts repository to perform a command-line install of the software from GitHub. This can be useful when e.g. installing the software on a server local to the SpiNNaker machine such as sands or spinn-test in order to test bigger networks than a local machine might be able to deal with sensibly.

Install

Make sure you have installed the Python requirements, and the C requirements.

It is recommended that the remaining steps are done in a virtual environment.

First, clone the SupportScripts repository:

git clone https://github.com/SpiNNakerManchester/SupportScripts

Next, run the install script:

bash SupportScripts/install.sh 8 -y

Then run the setup script:

bash SupportScripts/setup.sh

Then ensure that the PyNN SpiNNaker link is set up:

python -m spynnaker.pyNN.setup_pynn

Make sure the C environment variables are set correctly, particularly if you are in a new virtual environment and you had an older SpiNNaker software install with different values for the environment variables.

Now you can build the C code by running the automatic make script:

bash SupportScripts/automatic_make.sh

To test this has worked, run e.g. va_benchmark.py in PyNN8Examples/examples.