Compiling OpenFOAM.com v1806

WORK IN PROGRESS

READ

• https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/system-requirements.php
• https://www.openfoam.com/download/install-source.php
• https://www.openfoam.com/code/build-guide.php

Download

• Official source tarballs

wgethttps://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoamplus/files/v1806/OpenFOAM-v1806.tgz wgethttps://sourceforge.net/projects/openfoamplus/files/v1806/ThirdParty-v1806.tgz

Third Party

• Qt

wgethttps://download.qt.io/archive/qt/5.9/5.9.6/single/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.6.tar.xz

• Paraview
  • https://vimeo.com/63567497
  • https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/
  • See also: Compiling ParaView HPC
• gmp & mpfr

wgethttps://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gmp/gmp-6.1.2.tar.xz wgethttps://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr-4.0.1.tar.xz

• metis

wgethttp://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/metis/metis-5.1.0.tar.gz

Hack

Third Party - makeCGAL script

### MODIFY makeCGAL script
...
    echo "Starting build: $boostPACKAGE"
    echo
    # Absolute path for --libdir

    (
        cd $BOOST_SOURCE_DIR || exit 1
        export GIT_DIR=$PWD/.git # Mask seeing our own git-repo
        export TOOLSET=intel-linux

        rm -rf $BOOST_ARCH_PATH

        ./bootstrap.sh \
            --with-toolset=$TOOLSET \
            --prefix=$BOOST_ARCH_PATH \
            --libdir=$boostLib \
            --with-libraries=thread \
            --with-libraries=system \
        && ./bjam toolset=$TOOLSET -j $WM_NCOMPPROCS install \
        && echo "Built: boost"
    ) || {
        echo "Error building: boost"
        exit 1
    }
...

OpenFOAM source - src/OpenFOAM/db/dictionary/dictionarySearch.C

Hack the source for src/OpenFOAM/db/dictionary/dictionarySearch.C

--- dictionarySearch.C  2018-06-28 10:39:32.000000000 -0400
+++ /mnt/HA/opt/OpenFOAM-v1806/OpenFOAM-v1806/src/OpenFOAM/db/dictionary/dictionarySearch.C     2018-09-13 04:02:29.375945533 -0400
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@
 {
     const_searcher finder = csearch(keyword, recursive, patternMatch);

-    return static_cast<const searcher&>(finder);
+    return static_cast<searcher>(finder);
 }


@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@
 {
     const_searcher finder = csearchScoped(keyword, recursive, patternMatch);

-    return static_cast<const searcher&>(finder);
+    return static_cast<searcher>(finder);
 }

Build

Third Party

• boost
  • this is usually built by the "makeCGAL" script
  • but in case you want to build and install it directly

./bootstrap.sh  --with-toolset=intel-linux --prefix=/mnt/HA/opt/OpenFOAM-v1806/ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linux64Icc/boost_1_64_0 --libdir=/mnt/HA/opt/OpenFOAM-v1806/ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linux64Icc/boost_1_64_0/lib64  --with-libraries=thread --with-libraries=system ./bjam toolset=intel-linux -j 20 install

• gmp

./configure --prefix=/mnt/HA/opt/OpenFOAM-v1806/ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linux64/gmp-6.1.2 make -j 20 make check make install

• mpfr

./configure --prefix=/mnt/HA/opt/OpenFOAM-v1806/ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linux64/mpfr-4.0.1 --with-gmp=/mnt/HA/opt/OpenFOAM-v1806/ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linux64/gmp-6.1.2 make -j 20 make check make install

• CGAL

./makeCGAL  gmp-6.1.2 mpfr-4.0.1

• all

./Allwmake

OpenFOAM

• make

./Allwmake

See Also

• Compiling OpenFOAM