Charon Downloads

The Charon source code is available as a compressed archive. Charon is released under the GNU Public License, Version 3. The current version of Charon is available on the Source Code page.

Platforms & Compilers

Charon uses the Cmake system to configure builds. Building Charon also requires a modern MPI C++ compiler (Open-MPI) with a minimum of C++11 support. Read the installation instructions in the user manual carefully, and ensure the third-party libraries are installed before attempting compilation.

Charon is routinely compiled and tested on the following platforms:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux, versions 6 and 7
  • Ubuntu Linux

Users have successfully compiled Charon on other operating systems, including

  • Mac OS X