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Install C/C++

Install C/C++

Instructions for installing the shared/static libraries and headers on your system.

Latest release is 0.7.1 on Github

Both CMake and autotools build systems are included, enabling an optimized build from source on most platforms.

Windows

  1. Download latest ta-lib-0.7.1-windows-x86_64.msi

  2. Run the Installer:

    • Double-click the downloaded .msi file.
    • Follow the on-screen instructions.

    To update, just repeat the installation (older version is automatically uninstalled).

    If you choose to uninstall, use the Add/Remove Apps in windows settings.

If you prefer a non-interactive installation, you can use msiexec from the command line.

Windows Binaries

Use the .zip packages when you prefer to get the libraries without installing (e.g. to embed the TA-Lib binaries in your own installer).

PlatformDownload
Intel/AMD 64-bitsta-lib-0.7.1-windows-x86_64.zip
Intel/AMD 32-bitsta-lib-0.7.1-windows-x86_32.zip
ARM64Not yet available.

Windows Build from Source

Install Visual Studio 2022 Community and do:

C:\ta-lib> "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" x64
C:\ta-lib> mkdir build
C:\ta-lib> cd build
C:\ta-lib\build> cmake ..
C:\ta-lib\build> cmake --build .

You might need to adjust the vcvarsall.bat command depending on your Visual Studio installation and platform.

macOS

brew install ta-lib

See the homebrew formula for the latest supported release and platforms.

macOS Build from Source

Ensure you have the required dependencies: brew install automake && brew install libtool

  1. Download latest ta-lib-0.7.1-src.tar.gz (or, alternatively, clone down https://github.com/ta-lib/ta-lib/ and checkout the main branch)

  2. Extract the Tarball if you downloaded the source manually:

    tar -xzf ta-lib-0.7.1-src.tar.gz
cd ta-lib-0.7.1

  3. Build and Install:

    chmod +x autogen.sh  # ensure the permissions are set to generate the configure file
./autogen.sh         # generate the configure file
./configure
make
sudo make install

    Follow the same procedure for an update (the older version is overwritten, no need to uninstall).

    If you choose to uninstall do:

    sudo make uninstall

Linux

Linux Debian Packages

Recommended for all debian-based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Mint...)

  1. Download the .deb package matching your platform:

    PlatformDownload
    Intel/AMD 64-bitsta-lib_0.7.1_amd64.deb
    ARM64 (e.g. Raspberry Pi)ta-lib_0.7.1_arm64.deb
    Intel/AMD 32-bitsta-lib_0.7.1_i386.deb

  2. Install or Update:

    # For Intel/AMD (64 bits)
sudo dpkg -i ta-lib_0.7.1_amd64.deb
# or
sudo dpkg -i ta-lib_0.7.1_arm64.deb
# or
sudo dpkg -i ta-lib_0.7.1_i386.deb

    If you choose to uninstall do:

    sudo dpkg -r ta-lib

Linux Build from Source

  1. Download latest ta-lib-0.7.1-src.tar.gz (or, alternatively, clone down https://github.com/ta-lib/ta-lib/ and checkout the main branch)

  2. Extract the Tarball if you downloaded the source manually:

    tar -xzf ta-lib-0.7.1-src.tar.gz
cd ta-lib-0.7.1

  3. Build and Install:

    ./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig     # refresh the shared-library cache so the linker finds libta-lib.so

    If you cloned the repository instead of downloading the tarball, the configure script is not included; generate it first with ./autogen.sh (requires the autoconf, automake and libtool packages).

    Follow the same procedure for an update (the older version is overwritten, no need to uninstall).

    If you choose to uninstall do:

    sudo make uninstall

vcpkg

TA-Lib is available as the talib port in
vcpkg, Microsoft's cross-platform C/C++ package manager
(Windows, Linux and macOS).

Classic mode:

vcpkg install talib

Manifest mode (add it to your project's vcpkg.json):

vcpkg add port talib

The port is updated with each release. See the
vcpkg documentation
for one-time setup and CMake/MSBuild integration.

GitHub Actions

To install the TA-Lib C library in a CI pipeline, use the setup-ta-lib action. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows runners.

- uses: TA-Lib/setup-ta-lib@v1

The latest release is installed by default. To pin a specific version:

- uses: TA-Lib/setup-ta-lib@v1
  with:
    version: "0.7.1"

This is handy as a step before installing a wrapper that depends on the C library, such as the Python ta-lib package.

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