E-Cell System version 4

Theme	Status
Conda package for Windows, Mac and Linux
PyPI (wheel) package for Linux

What is E-Cell System?

E-Cell System is a software platform for modeling, simulation and analysis of complex, heterogeneous and multi-scale systems like a cell.

See https://ecell4.e-cell.org/

Build macOS arm64 wheel

The following steps will build: dist/ecell4_base-2.1.2-cp310-cp310-macosx_26_0_arm64.whl on macOS Tahoe (Apple Silicon, arm64).

# 1) Install required build dependencies
brew install cmake hdf5 boost gsl

# 2) Build wheel for arm64
cd /path/to/ecell4_base
rm -rf dist build
uv venv --python 3.10
# or
# uv venv --python 3.11
# uv venv --python 3.12
# uv venv --python 3.13
# uv venv --python 3.14
source .venv/bin/activate
uv pip install pip
CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=arm64 pip wheel . -w dist --no-deps

# 3) (Optional) Verify install from the built wheel in the above venv
pip install dist/ecell4_base-2.1.2-cp310-cp310-macosx_26_0_arm64.whl
python -c "from ecell4_base.core import *; sp1 = Species('A', 0.0025, 1); print(sp1.list_attributes())"