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title: Development
tagline: under the hood of ilastik
category: "Development"
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<h2>ilastik code-base</h2>
All code is open source and can be found on <a href="https://github.com/ilastik">Github</a>.<br />
It is divided into the two main repositories: <i>ilastik</i> (with <i>lazyflow</i>, the underlying lazy execution framework), and our 5D-viewer <i>volumina</i>.
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  <li><a href="https://github.com/ilastik/ilastik">ilastik code</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://github.com/ilastik/volumina">volumina code</a></li>
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<h2>Installation</h2>
<h3>Pre-built binaries</h3>
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<a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation/basics/installation.html">Installation instructions</a> are available
for installing the pre-built binaries for all major platforms.
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Even with the pre-built binary, developers power-users can run their own Python scripts with the 
provided interpreter.
See the note in the <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/documentation/basics/headless.html">Headless Mode</a>
documentation for details.

<h3>Development environment</h3>  
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Instruction on setting-up a development environment can be found in our <a href="https://github.com/ilastik/ilastik/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md">contributing guidelines</a> in our main repository.
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<h3>Building ilastik-specific dependencies</h3>
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Furthermore, there are repositories for a comprehensive build system for 
<a href="https://github.com/ilastik/ilastik-conda-recipes">Linux, Mac, and Windows</a>, based on the <a href="https://github.com/conda/conda">conda</a>/<a href="https://github.com/mamba-org/mamba">mamba</a>
and <a href="https://github.com/conda/conda-build">conda-build</a> tools.
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<h2>Developer documentation</h2>
Introduction into programming ilastik, ilastik's design and API documentation is
available as
<a href="http://sphinx-doc.org">Sphinx</a>
documentation for the
sub-projects <i>ilastik</i>, <i>lazyflow</i> and <i>volumina</i>.
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  <li><a href="https://ilastik.github.io/ilastik">ilastik documentation</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://ilastik.github.io/lazyflow">lazyflow documentation</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://ilastik.github.io/volumina">volumina documentation</a></li>
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