Installation¶

*nix¶

First, download and install version 1.8.5+ of the libspatialindex library from:

The library supports CMake builds, so it is a matter of:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ cmake --build . -j
$ cmake --install .

You may need to run the ldconfig command after installing the library to ensure that applications can find it at startup time.

Rtree can be easily installed via pip:

$ pip install Rtree

or by running in a local source directory:

$ pip install -e .

You can build and test in place like:

$ pytest

The Windows DLLs of libspatialindex are pre-compiled in windows installers that are available from PyPI. Installation on Windows is as easy as:

pip install Rtree