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Known Build Issues
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Intel MPI (Gcc/Clang)
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Either I_MPI_ROOT or MPI_ROOT can be used to specify the Intel-MPI
installation directory path.
The ThirdParty build of ptscotch uses `mpiicc` for Intel-MPI
instead of the usual `mpicc`.
When gcc or clang are used, it is highly likely that the
I_MPI_CC environment variable also needs to be set accordingly.
See `mpiicc -help` for more information about environment variables.
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Intel Compiler
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Since OpenFOAM uses C++11, a fairly recent version is required.
The Intel compiler - icc (ICC) 17.0.1 20161005 is ok, but the
initial release - icc (ICC) 17.0.0 20160721 - has a bug that
will result in these types of error messages.
MatrixSpaceI.H(492): error: no instance of overloaded function
"Foam::MatrixSpace<Form, Cmpt, Mrows, Ncols>::Block<SubTensor,
BRowStart, BColStart>::operator=" matches the specified type
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VTK
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If using the runTimePostProcessing to create on-the-fly images, you
can simply just compile ParaView and these libraries will be used.
If you elect to use a separate VTK compilation (for example for
off-screen rendering), it is advisable to reuse the VTK libraries that
are provided with ParaView by making an appropriate symlink
prior to using makeVTK. This doesn't just reduce disk-space, but works
Using runTimePostProcessing with the 'plain' VTK libraries does
symbol lookup error: .../linux64Gcc/VTK-7.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonExecutionModel-7.1.so.1:
undefined symbol: _ZN33vtkFilteringInformationKeyManager13ClassFinalizeEv
symbol lookup error: .../linux64Gcc/VTK-7.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonDataModel-7.1.so.1:
undefined symbol: _ZN49vtkInformationQuadratureSchemeDefinitionVectorKeyD1Ev
This error appears to be suppressed if VTK is compiled with a Debug build-type.
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Building on older systems
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If the system gcc is too old for building OpenFOAM, a third-party gcc or
clang/llvm installation can be used. If building clang/llvm, note that
there are also minimum gcc/g++ requirements there:
Min gcc/g++
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4.4 llvm-3.4.2
4.7 llvm-3.5.2 - llvm-3.7.0
If your system compiler is too old to build the minimum required gcc or
clang/llvm, it is just simply too old.
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ThirdParty clang without gmp/mpfr
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If using ThirdParty clang without gmp/mpfr, the ThirdParty makeCGAL
script will need to be run manually and specify that there is no
gmp/mpfr. Eg,
cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR
./makeCGAL gmp-none mpfr-none
Subequent compilation with Allwmake will now run largely without any
problems, except that the components linking against CGAL
(foamyMesh and surfaceBooleanFeatures) will also try to link against
a nonexistent mpfr library. As a workaround, the link-dependency can
be removed in wmake/rules/General/CGAL :
CGAL_LIBS = \
-L$(BOOST_ARCH_PATH)/lib \
-L$(BOOST_ARCH_PATH)/lib$(WM_COMPILER_LIB_ARCH) \
-L$(CGAL_ARCH_PATH)/lib \
-L$(CGAL_ARCH_PATH)/lib$(WM_COMPILER_LIB_ARCH) \
-lCGAL
This is a temporary inconvenience until a more robust solution is found.
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Building with spack
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If you are building with spack, note that the depends_on for paraview
resolves poorly. The +qt dependency (for building the reader module)
may need to be specified as a preference by including the following in
your `~/.spack/packages.yaml` file:
packages:
paraview:
variants: +qt
It appears that spack will otherwise ignore any paraview+qt version
and attempt to install a paraview~qt version instead.