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# OpenFOAM&reg; ThirdParty Build
OpenFOAM depends to a certain extent on third-party libraries
(*opensource only*). It also provides some interfaces to *opensource* or
*proprietary* libraries. This third-party package contains configurations and
scripts for building third-party packages. It should normally only be used in
conjunction with the corresponding OpenFOAM version.
## Configuration of Third-Party Versions
The distributed make scripts can generally be used for a variety of
versions of the third-party libraries, with the software version
specified on the command-line. For example,
$ ./makeFFTW -help
usage: makeFFTW [OPTION] [fftw-VERSION]
If a version is not explicitly specified on the command-line, it will
use the version as specified by the appropriate OpenFOAM
`etc/config.sh/...` entry.
This approach avoids duplicate entries for the default versions and
ensures the best overall consistency between the OpenFOAM installation
and its corresponding third-party installation.
---
## Before Starting
0. Review the [system requirements](http://www.openfoam.com/documentation/system-requirements.php)
and decide on the following:
* compiler type/version - if the system compiler is not relatively recent,
you will need a [third-party compiler](#makeGcc) installation.
* MPI type/version.
* ParaView type/version.
* CMake type/version, ...
1. If you are using a system MPI (eg, openmpi), ensure that this environment
has also been properly activated for your user.
Often (but not always) a `mpi-selector` command is available for this purpose.
You may need to open a new shell afterwards for the change to take effect.
Using the following command may help diagnosing things:
which mpicc
2. Adjust the OpenFOAM `etc/bashrc`, `etc/config.sh/...` or equivalent
`prefs.sh` files to reflect your preferred configuration.
For many config files, there are several configuration possibilities:
- Define a particular third-party version.
- Use a system installation.
- Disable use of an optional component.
- Define an alternative site-wide central location.
- After making the desired changes, use `wmRefresh` or equivalent to use the configurations.
---
## Building
Many components of ThirdParty are *optional* or are invoked
automatically as part of the top-level OpenFOAM `Allwmake`.
Nonetheless it may be necessary or useful to build various
ThirdParty components prior to building OpenFOAM itself.
### Build Sequence
1. `makeGcc` _or_ `makeLLVM` <a name="makeGcc"></a> *(optional)*
- Makes a third-party [gcc](#gcc-compiler) or [clang](#clang-compiler) installation,
which is needed if the system gcc is [too old](#gcc-compiler).
If your system compiler is recent enough, you can skip this step.
- If you do use this option, you will need the following adjustments to the
OpenFOAM `etc/bashrc` or your equivalent `prefs.sh` file:
- `WM_COMPILER_TYPE=ThirdParty`
- `WM_COMPILER=Gcc48` (for example)
- or `WM_COMPILER=Clang` and adjust the `clang_version` entry in the OpenFOAM
`etc/config.sh/compiler` or equivalent.
- More description is contained in the header comments of the
`makeGcc` and `makeLLVM` files.
- *Attention*: If you are building a newer version of clang, you may need to
update your CMake beforehand.
2. `makeCmake` *(optional)*
- Makes a third-party [CMake](#general-packages) installation, which is
needed if a system CMake does not exist or is [too old](#min-cmake),
- Note that CMake is being used by an number of third-party packages
(CGAL, LLVM, ParaView, VTK, ...)
so this may become an increasingly important aspect of the build.
3. `Allwmake`
- This will be automatically invoked by the top-level OpenFOAM `Allwmake`, but
can also be invoked directly to find possible build errors.
- Builds an mpi library (openmpi or mpich), scotch decomposition, boost, CGAL, FFTW.
- If the optional metis directory is found, it will also be compiled.
4. `makeParaView` *(optional but highly recommended)*
- This is optional, but extremely useful for visualization and for
run-time post-processing function objects.
You can build this at a later point in time, but then you should
remember to rebuild the post-processing function objects and the
reader module as well.
5. Make any additional optional components
#### Optional Components
`makeCGAL`
- Builds third-party boost and CGAL.
Automatically invoked from the ThirdParty `Allwmake`,
but can be invoked directly to resolve possible build errors.
`makeFFTW`
- Builds third-party FFTW.
Automatically invoked from the ThirdParty `Allwmake`,
but can be invoked directly to resolve possible build errors.
`makeCCMIO`
- Only required for conversion to/from STARCD/STARCCM+ files.
`makeTecio`
- Only required for conversion of results to Tecplot format.
`makeMesa`, `makeVTK`
- Additional support for building offscreen rendering components.
Useful if you want to render on computer servers without graphics cards.
The `makeParaView.example` and `makeVTK.example` files provide some useful
suggestions about compiling such a configuration.
`makeQt`
- Script to build a [third-party installation of Qt](#makeQt), including qmake.
- Possibly needed for `makeParaView`.
`makeGperftools`
- Build gperftools (originally Google Performance Tools)
`minCmake`
- Scour specified directories for CMakeLists.txt and their cmake_minimum.
Report in sorted order.
`Allclean`
- After building, this script may be used to remove intermediate build information
and save some disk space.
## Build Notes
### Scotch
- The zlib library and zlib development headers are required.
### Mesa
- Needed for off-screen rendering.
- Building with [mesa-11][older mesa] is fine and [mesa-13][link mesa] also seems to be okay.
- Building with mesa-12 is not possible since it fails to create
the necessary `include/GL` directory and `osmesa.h` file.
### VTK
- Needed for off-screen rendering and run-time post-processing without
ParaView.
- Rather than downloading VTK separately, it is easy to reuse the VTK
sources that are bundled with ParaView.
For example, by using a symbolic link:
ln -s ParaView-5.2.0/VTK VTK-7.1.0
The appropriate VTK version number can be found from the contents of
the `vtkVersion.cmake` file.
For example,
$ cat ParaView-5.2.0/VTK/CMake/vtkVersion.cmake
# VTK version number components.
set(VTK_MAJOR_VERSION 7)
set(VTK_MINOR_VERSION 1)
set(VTK_BUILD_VERSION 0)
### ParaView
- Building ParaView requires CMake, qmake and a `qt` development files.
Use the `-cmake`, `-qmake` and `-qt-*` options for `makeParaView` as
required.
See additional notes below about [making Qt](#makeQt) if necessary.
### ParaView
- Both CMake and qmake are required when building ParaView.
#### 5.2.0
- Compiles without patching.
#### 4.4.0/5.0.0/5.0.1/5.1.2
- If using `makeParaView`, the following patches will be automatically
applied (see the `etc/patches` directory):
- Bugfix for STL reader - affects 4.4.0 only.
- Broken installation (ui_pqExportStateWizard.h) - affects 4.4.0/5.0.0/5.0.1/5.1.x
- Building with gcc-6.1.0 - affects 4.4.0/5.0.0/5.0.1 (patch applied for 5.0.1)
- The SciberQuestToolKit plugin fails to compile with gcc-6.1.0 and causes
the compilation of ParaView to halt. The easiest solution is to delete
the ParaView-5.0.1/Plugins/SciberQuestToolKit directory.
### Making Qt <a name="makeQt"></a>
- Building a third-party Qt installation (prior to building ParaView) requires
some additional effort, but should nonetheless work smoothly.
1. Download a [*qt-everywhere-opensource-src*][link Qt] package and
unpack in the third-party directory.
2. Use the `makeQt` script with the QT version number. For example,
./makeQt 4.8.7
3. Build ParaView using this third-party QT. For example,
./makeParaView -qt-4.8.7 5.2.0
- ParaView does not yet support QT5.
- If you relocate the third-party directory to another location
(eg, you built in your home directory, but want to install it in a
central location), you will need to use the `etc/relocateQt` script
afterwards.
---
## Versions
### Gcc Compiler <a name="gcc-compiler"></a>
The minimum version of gcc required is 4.8.0.
| Name | Location |
|-------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| [gcc][page gcc] | [releases][link gcc] |
| [gmp][page gmp] | system is often ok, otherwise [download][link gmp] |
| [mpfr][page mpfr] | system is often ok, otherwise [download][link mpfr] |
| [mpc][page mpc] | system is often ok, otherwise [download][link mpc] |
#### Potential MPFR conflicts
If you elect to use a third-party version of mpfr, you may experience
conflicts with your installed system mpfr.
On some systems, mpfr is compiled as *non-threaded*, whereas the
third-party will use *threaded* by default.
This can cause some confusion at the linker stage, since it may
resolve the system mpfr first (and find that it is *non-threaded*).
You can avoid this by one of two means:
1. Use system components for gmp/mpfr/mpc: `makeGcc -system ...`
2. Use third-party mpfr, but without threading: `makeGcc -no-threadsafe ...`
#### 32-bit build (on 64-bit)
If you have a 64-bit system, but wish to have a 32-bit compiler, you
will need to enable multi-lib support for Gcc: `makeGcc -multilib`,
which is normally disabled, since many (most?) 64-bit systems do not
install the 32-bit development libraries by default.
### Clang Compiler <a name="clang-compiler"></a>
The minimum version of clang required is 3.3.
*Attention*: If you are building a newer version of clang, you may need to
update your CMake beforehand.
GNU *configure* can only be used prior to clang version 3.9.
| Name | Location |
|-----------------------|------------------------|
| [clang][page clang] | [download][link clang] |
| [llvm][page llvm] | [download][link llvm] |
### Parallel Processing <a name="parallel"></a>
| Name | Location |
|-----------------------|------------------------|
| [adios][page adios] | [repo][repo adios] or [github download][link adios] or [alt download][altlink adios] |
| [scotch, ptscotch][page scotch] | [download][link scotch] |
| [openmpi][page openmpi] | [download][link openmpi] |
### General <a name="general-packages"></a>
| Name | Location |
|-----------------------|------------------------|
| [CMake][page cmake] | [download][link cmake] |
| [boost][page boost] | [download][link boost] |
| [CGAL][page CGAL] | [download][link CGAL] or [newer][newer CGAL] |
| [FFTW][page FFTW] | [download][link FFTW] |
| [ADF/CGNS][page CGNS], ccm | [link ccmio][link ccmio] |
| [tecio][page tecio] | [link tecio][link tecio] |
| gperftools | [repo][repo gperftools] or [download][link gperftools] |
### Visualization <a name="viz-version"></a>
| Name | Location |
|-----------------------|------------------------|
| [MESA][page mesa] | [download][link mesa] or [older][older mesa] |
| [ParaView][page ParaView] | [download][link ParaView] or older [5.1][older ParaView-51], [5.0][older ParaView-50], [4.4][older ParaView-44] |
| [Qt][page Qt] | [repo][repo Qt] or [download][link Qt]. The newer [Qt5][newer Qt5] is **not** currently supported by ParaView. |
### CMake Minimum Requirements <a name="min-cmake"></a>
The minimum CMake requirements for building various components.
2.8 llvm-3.4.2
2.8.11 CGAL-4.9
2.8.12.2 llvm-3.8.0
2.8.4 cmake-3.6.0
3.3 ParaView-5.1.2
3.3 ParaView-5.2.0
3.4.3 llvm-3.9.0.src
3.5 ParaView-5.1.0
<!-- gcc-related -->
[page gcc]: http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html
[page gmp]: http://gmplib.org/
[page mpfr]: http://www.mpfr.org/
[page mpc]: http://www.multiprecision.org/
[link gcc]: http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html
[link gmp]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-6.1.0.tar.bz2
[link mpfr]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpfr/mpfr-3.1.4.tar.bz2
[link mpc]: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mpc/mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz
<!-- clang-related -->
[page clang]: http://llvm.org/
[page llvm]: http://llvm.org/
[link clang]: http://llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/cfe-3.9.0.src.tar.xz
[link llvm]: http://llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/llvm-3.9.0.src.tar.xz
<!-- parallel -->
[page adios]: https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/center-projects/adios/
[repo adios]: https://github.com/ornladios/ADIOS
[link adios]: https://github.com/ornladios/ADIOS/archive/v1.11.0.tar.gz
[altlink adios]: http://users.nccs.gov/%7Epnorbert/adios-1.11.0.tar.gz
[page zfp]: http://computation.llnl.gov/projects/floating-point-compression/zfp-versions
[page scotch]: https://www.labri.fr/perso/pelegrin/scotch/
[link scotch]: https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/file/34099/scotch_6.0.3.tar.gz
[page openmpi]: http://www.open-mpi.org/
[link openmpi]: http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.10/downloads/openmpi-1.10.4.tar.bz2
[newer openmpi]: https://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v2.0/downloads/openmpi-2.0.1.tar.bz2
<!-- general -->
[page cmake]: http://www.cmake.org/
[link cmake]: http://www.cmake.org/files/v3.5/cmake-3.5.2.tar.gz
[page boost]: http://boost.org
[link boost]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.62.0/boost_1_62_0.tar.bz2
[page CGAL]: http://cgal.org
[link CGAL]: https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/releases%2FCGAL-4.8.2/CGAL-4.8.2.tar.xz
[newer CGAL]: https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/releases%2FCGAL-4.9/CGAL-4.9.tar.xz
[page FFTW]: http://www.fftw.org/
[link FFTW]: http://www.fftw.org/fftw-3.3.5.tar.gz
[page cgns]: http://cgns.github.io/
[link ccmio]: http://portal.nersc.gov/svn/visit/trunk/third_party/libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz (check usage conditions)
[page tecio]: http://www.tecplot.com/
[link tecio]: http://www.tecplot.com/my/tecio-library/ (needs registration)
[repo gperftools]: https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools
[link gperftools]: https://github.com/gperftools/gperftools/releases/download/gperftools-2.5/gperftools-2.5.tar.gz
<!-- Visualization -->
[page ParaView]: http://www.paraview.org/
[link ParaView]: http://www.paraview.org/files/v5.2/ParaView-v5.2.0.tar.gz
[older ParaView-44]: http://www.paraview.org/files/v4.4/ParaView-v4.4.0-source.tar.gz
[older ParaView-50]: http://www.paraview.org/files/v5.0/ParaView-v5.0.1-source.tar.gz
[older ParaView-51]: http://www.paraview.org/files/v5.1/ParaView-v5.1.2-source.tar.gz
[page mesa]: http://mesa3d.org/
[link mesa]: ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/13.0.1/mesa-13.0.1.tar.xz
[older mesa]: ftp://ftp.freedesktop.org/pub/mesa/11.2.2/mesa-11.2.2.tar.xz
[page Qt]: https://www.qt.io/download-open-source/
[repo Qt]: http://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git
[link Qt]: http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/4.8/4.8.7/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7.tar.gz
[newer Qt5]: http://download.qt.io/official_releases/qt/5.7/5.7.0/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.7.0.tar.gz
<!-- Standard Footer -->
## Additional OpenFOAM Links
- [Download and installation instructions](http://www.openfoam.com/releases)
- [Documentation](http://www.openfoam.com/documentation)
- [Reporting bugs/issues (including bugs/suggestions/feature requests) in OpenFOAM+](http://www.openfoam.com/code/bug-reporting.php)
- [Collaborative and Community-based Developments](http://www.openfoam.com/services/community-projects.php)
- [Contacting OpenCFD](http://www.openfoam.com/contact)
---
Copyright 2016 OpenCFD Ltd
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## Before Starting
1. Decide on compiler type/version,
MPI type/version,
ParaView type/version,
CMake type/version, etc.
- If the system compiler is not relatively recent, you will need to use a
[third-party compiler installation](#makeGcc).
2. If you are using a system MPI (eg, openmpi), ensure that this environment
has also been properly activated for your user.
Often (but not always) a `mpi-selector` command is available for this purpose.
You may need to open a new shell afterwards for the change to take effect.
Using the following command may help diagnosing things:
which mpicc
3. Adjust the OpenFOAM `etc/bashrc`, `etc/config.sh/...` or equivalent
0. Review the [system requirements](http://www.openfoam.com/documentation/system-requirements.php)
and decide on the following:
* compiler type/version (you may need a third-party compiler installation).
* MPI type/version.
* ParaView type/version.
* CMake type/version, ...
1. Adjust the OpenFOAM `etc/bashrc`, `etc/config.sh/...` or equivalent
`prefs.sh` files to reflect your preferred configuration.
For many config files, there are several configuration possibilities:
- Define a particular third-party version.
- Use a system installation.
- Disable use of an optional component.
- Define an alternative site-wide central location.
- After making the desired changes, use `wmRefresh` or equivalent to use the configurations.
2. Source the updated OpenFOAM environment
---
## Building
Many components of ThirdParty are *optional* or are invoked
automatically as part of the top-level OpenFOAM `Allwmake`.
Nonetheless it may be necessary or useful to build various
ThirdParty components prior to building OpenFOAM itself.
## Build Sequence
1. `makeGcc` _or_ `makeLLVM` <a name="makeGcc"></a> *(optional)*
- Makes a third-party [gcc](#gcc-compiler) or [clang](#clang-compiler) installation,
which is needed if the system gcc is [too old](#gcc-compiler).
If your system compiler is recent enough, you can skip this step.
- If you do use this option, you will need the following adjustments to the
OpenFOAM `etc/bashrc` or your equivalent `prefs.sh` file:
- `WM_COMPILER_TYPE=ThirdParty`
- `WM_COMPILER=Gcc48` (for example)
- or `WM_COMPILER=Clang` and adjust the `clang_version` entry in the OpenFOAM
`etc/config.sh/compiler` or equivalent.
- More description is contained in the header comments of the
`makeGcc` and `makeLLVM` files.
- *Attention*: If you are building a newer version of clang, you may need to
update your CMake beforehand.
1. `makeGcc` _or_ `makeLLVM` *(optional)*
2. `makeCmake` *(optional)*
- Makes a third-party [CMake](#general-packages) installation, which is
needed if a system CMake does not exist or is [too old](#min-cmake),
- Note that CMake is being used by an number of third-party packages
(CGAL, LLVM, ParaView, VTK, ...)
so this may become an increasingly important aspect of the build.
3. `Allwmake`
- This will be automatically invoked by the top-level OpenFOAM `Allwmake`, but
can also be invoked directly to find possible build errors.
- Builds an mpi library (openmpi or mpich), scotch decomposition, boost, CGAL, FFTW.
- If the optional metis directory is found, it will also be compiled.
- This will be automatically invoked by the top-level OpenFOAM `Allwmake`.
4. `makeParaView` *(optional but highly recommended)*
- This is optional, but extremely useful for visualization and for
run-time post-processing function objects.
You can build this at a later point in time, but then you should
remember to rebuild the post-processing function objects and the
reader module as well.
5. Make any additional optional components
### Optional Components
`makeADIOS`
- Only required for future ADIOS support
`makeCGAL`
- Builds third-party boost and CGAL.
Automatically invoked from the ThirdParty `Allwmake`,
but can be invoked directly to resolve possible build errors.
`makeFFTW`
- Builds third-party FFTW.
Automatically invoked from the ThirdParty `Allwmake`,
but can be invoked directly to resolve possible build errors.
`makeCCMIO`
- Only required for conversion to/from STARCD/STARCCM+ files.
`makeTecio`
- Only required for conversion of results to Tecplot format.
`makeMesa`, `makeVTK`
- Additional support for building offscreen rendering components.
Useful if you want to render on computer servers without graphics cards.
The `makeParaView.example` and `makeVTK.example` files provide some useful
suggestions about compiling such a configuration.
`makeQt`
- Script to build a [third-party installation of Qt](#makeQt), including qmake.
- Possibly needed for `makeParaView`.
`makeGperftools`
- Build gperftools (originally Google Performance Tools)
`minCmake`
- Scour specified directories for CMakeLists.txt and their cmake_minimum.
Report in sorted order.
`Allclean`
- After building, this script may be used to remove intermediate build information
and save some disk space.
## Build Notes
### ADIOS
- The github release currently requires GNU autoconf tools (eg,
autoconf, autoheader, automake) for its configuration.
- Some inconsistency in directory names (ADIOS vs. adios) between releases.
- Optionally uses bzip2, zlib development headers (eg, libbz2-devel, zlib-devel)
for the corresponding compression tranforms.
- The [zfp floating point compression][page zfp] library is now included as
part of ADIOS.
### Scotch
- The zlib library and zlib development headers are required.
### Mesa
- Needed for off-screen rendering.
- Building with mesa-12 fails to create an `include/GL` directory and
an `osmesa.h` file - making it fairly useless for off-screen VTK.
- Building with [mesa-11][older mesa] is fine and [mesa-13][linkg mesa] also seems to be okay.
### VTK
- Needed for off-screen rendering and run-time post-processing without
ParaView.
- Rather than downloading VTK separately, it is easy to reuse the VTK
sources that are bundled with ParaView.
For example, by using a symbolic link:
ln -s ParaView-5.2.0/VTK VTK-7.1.0
The appropriate VTK version number can be found from the constents of
the `vtkVersion.cmake` file.
For example,
$ cat ParaView-5.2.0/VTK/CMake/vtkVersion.cmake
# VTK version number components.
set(VTK_MAJOR_VERSION 7)
set(VTK_MINOR_VERSION 1)
set(VTK_BUILD_VERSION 0)
### ParaView
- Building ParaView requires CMake, qmake and a `qt` development files.
Use the `-cmake`, `-qmake` and `-qt-*` options for `makeParaView` as
required.
See additional notes below about [making Qt](#makeQt) if necessary.
### ParaView
- Both CMake and qmake are required when building ParaView.
#### 5.2.0
- Compiles without patching.
#### 4.4.0/5.0.0/5.0.1/5.1.2
- If using `makeParaView`, the following patches will be automatically
applied (see the `etc/patches` directory):
- Bugfix for STL reader - affects 4.4.0 only.
- Broken installation (ui_pqExportStateWizard.h) - affects 4.4.0/5.0.0/5.0.1/5.1.x
- Building with gcc-6.1.0 - affects 4.4.0/5.0.0/5.0.1 (patch applied for 5.0.1)
- The SciberQuestToolKit plugin fails to compile with gcc-6.1.0 and causes
the compilation of ParaView to halt. The easiest solution is to delete
the ParaView-5.0.1/Plugins/SciberQuestToolKit directory.
### Making Qt <a name="makeQt"></a>
- Building a third-party Qt installation (prior to building ParaView) requires
some additional effort, but should nonetheless work smoothly.
1. Download a [*qt-everywhere-opensource-src*][link Qt] package and
unpack in the third-party directory.
2. Use the `makeQt` script with the QT version number. For example,
./makeQt 4.8.7
3. Build ParaView using this third-party QT. For example,
./makeParaView -qt-4.8.7 5.2.0
- ParaView does not yet support QT5.
- If you relocate the third-party directory to another location
(eg, you built in your home directory, but want to install it in a
central location), you will need to use the `etc/relocateQt` script
afterwards.
---
## Versions
### Gcc Compiler <a name="gcc-compiler"></a>
The minimum version of gcc required is 4.8.0.
| Name | Location |
|-------------------|--------------------------------------------|
| [gcc][page gcc] | [releases][link gcc] |
| [gmp][page gmp] | system is often ok, otherwise [download][link gmp] |
| [mpfr][page mpfr] | system is often ok, otherwise [download][link mpfr] |
| [mpc][page mpc] | system is often ok, otherwise [download][link mpc] |
#### Potential MPFR conflicts
If you elect to use a third-party version of mpfr, you may experience
conflicts with your installed system mpfr.
On some systems, mpfr is compiled as *non-threaded*, whereas the
third-party will use *threaded* by default.
This can cause some confusion at the linker stage, since it may
resolve the system mpfr first (and find that it is *non-threaded*).