suite-sparse

Install command:
brew install suite-sparse

Also known as: suitesparse

Suite of Sparse Matrix Software

https://people.engr.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html

License: BSD-3-Clause AND LGPL-2.1-or-later AND GPL-2.0-or-later AND Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-only AND (LGPL-3.0-or-later OR GPL-2.0-or-later)

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/suite-sparse.json

Formula code: suite-sparse.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 7.14.1

Depends on:

gcc 16.2.0 GNU compiler collection
gmp 6.3.0 GNU multiple precision arithmetic library
mpfr 4.2.2 C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations
libomp 23.1.5 LLVM's OpenMP runtime library

Depends on when building from source:

cmake 4.5.0 Cross-platform make

Binaries: suitesparse_mongoose

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