1 1.6.x
Now that I routinely make additions and modifications of my local code, and OpenCFD provide a git repository, I no longer use a system wide installation (I now appreciate the wisdom of the OpenCFD recommendation to go with a local installation). Here are notes from a local installation on openSUSE 11.1 with WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR=$HOME/OpenFOAM. I have rarely had a problem-free compilation process (due mainly to differences between linux systems), but usually the errors are easily resolved with a little patience, and the scripting automation has improved. Compared to some packages, OpenCFD do a very good job of making the installation process generally painless.
cd $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.6.x.git
This created $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-1.6.x and $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-1.6. To avoid a warning and because the system compiler is usually adequate, I changed "OpenFOAM" to "System" in the settings,
| File: $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/etc/settings.sh |
... # Select compiler installation # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # compilerInstall = OpenFOAM | System compilerInstall=System ... |
The environment needs to be updated so I added
| File: $HOME/.bashrc |
... source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/etc/bashrc ... |
and re-sourced
source ~/.bashrc
then jumped into the OpenFOAM directory and ran the Allwmake script:
cd $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-1.6.x ./Allwmake 2>&1 > log.wmake.00 & tail -f log.wmake.00
1.1 First error
The end of the log showed failure
7244 make[2]: *** [/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/mixtureAdiabaticFlameT] Error 1 7245 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/utilities/thermophysical/mixtureAdiabaticFlameT' 7246 make[1]: *** [mixtureAdiabaticFlameT] Error 2 7247 make[1]: Target `application' not remade because of errors. 7248 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/utilities/thermophysical' 7249 make: *** [thermophysical] Error 2 7250 make: Target `application' not remade because of errors.
But the original error was found by searching for the first appearance of the word "Error", which indicated that mpi.h could not be found to build libPstream. The problem was that the git clone operation had created the directory ThirdParty-1.6 but $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR was set to $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-1.6.x. When the directory was renamed, mpi.h was found in $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-1.6.x/openmpi-1.3.3/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/include. So tried again:
./Allwmake 2>&1 > log.wmake.01 & tail -f log.wmake.01
Actually, a better solution is probably to use a symlink
ln -s $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-1.6 $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-1.6.x
1.2 Second error
2853 g++ -m64 -Dlinux64 -DWM_DP -Wall -Wno-strict-aliasing -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wold-style-cast -Wnon-virtual-dtor -O3 -DNoRepository -ftemplate- >depth-40 -I/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/src /thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude -IlnInclude -I. -I/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/ >src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude -I/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/src/OSspecific/POSIX/lnInclude -fPIC Make/linux64GccDPOpt/mixtureAdiabaticFlameT.o - >L/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/lib/linux64GccDPOpt \ 2854 -lspecie -lOpenFOAM -liberty -ldl -lm -o /home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/mixtureAdiabaticFlameT 2855 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/utilities/thermophysical/mixtureAdiabaticFlameT' 2856 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/utilities/thermophysical' 2857 make: Target `application' not remade because of errors.
The first sign of a problem was
2531 + cd PV3FoamReader 2532 + mkdir -p Make/linux64GccDPOpt 2533 + cd Make/linux64GccDPOpt 2534 + cmake ../.. 2535 ./Allwmake: line 14: cmake: command not found 2536 + make 2537 make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PV3FoamReader/PV3FoamReader/Make/ >linux64GccDPOpt' 2538 make[3]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. 2539 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PV3FoamReader/PV3FoamReader/Make/ >linux64GccDPOpt' 2540 make[2]: *** [PV3FoamReader] Error 2
This was not really an error, since Paraview needs to be built first. So following the README, i.e.
160 * Compiling Paraview 3.6.1 and the PV3FoamReader module 161 If there are problems encountered with ParaView, then it may be necessary to 162 compile ParaView from sources. The compilation 163 is a fairly simple process using the supplied makeParaView script that 164 has worked in our tests with other packages supplied in the ThirdParty 165 directory, namely cmake-2.6.4 and gcc-4.3.3. Execute the following: 166 + cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR 167 + rm -rf paraview-3.6.1/platforms 168 + makeParaView
I got
ParaView_DIR=/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x/paraview-3.6.1/platforms/linux64Gcc
removing old build/install directory
----
Configuring paraview-3.6.1 (major version: 3.6)
MPI support : false
Python support : false
MESA support : false
Qt dev support : true
Source : /home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x/paraview-3.6.1
Target : /home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x/paraview-3.6.1/platforms/linux64Gcc
----
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/home/hoogland/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x/paraview-3.6.1/platforms/linux64Gcc -DVTK_USE_TK=FALSE -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON -DVTK_USE_RPATH:BOOL=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -DPARAVIEW_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT:BOOL=ON -DPARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI=ON ../..
----
...
because cmake-2.6.4 was not present in the ThirdParty-1.6 directory of the git repo. Apparently cmake is available in the 32-bit ThirdParty download, but I couldn't see it. The easiest thing to do was install a system wide version as root:
cd /tmp wget wget http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/cmake-2.6.2-2.19.x86_64.rpm rpm -ivh cmake-2.6.2-2.19.x86_64.rpm
I wanted to build Paraview with python and mesa support (for off screen rendering) and modified the make script accordingly
| File: $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-1.6.x/makeParaView |
44 # Python support: 45 # note: script will try to determine the appropriate python library. 46 # If it fails, specify the path using the PYTHON_LIBRARY variable 47 withPYTHON=true 48 #PYTHON_LIBRARY="" 49 PYTHON_LIBRARY="$HOME/opt/Python-2.5.4/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0" 50 PYTHON_INCLUDE="$HOME/opt/Python-2.5.4/include/python2.5" 51 52 # MESA graphics support: 53 withMESA=true 54 MESA_INCLUDE="/usr/include/GL" 55 MESA_LIBRARY="/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so" |
I added PYTHON_INCLUDE because I have a non-standard Python installation
| File: $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-1.6.x/tools/makeParaViewFunctions |
114 if [ -n "$PYTHON_INCLUDE" ] 115 then 116 pythonInclude=$PYTHON_INCLUDE 117 # check $PYTHON_INCLUDE if it has been set 118 if [ ! -d "$pythonInclude" ] 119 then 120 echo "*** Error: python include dir not found at location specified " \ 121 "by PYTHON_INCLUDE=$pythonInclude" 122 fi 123 else 124 pythonInclude=/usr/include/python$pythonMajor 125 if [ ! -e "$pythonInclude" ] 126 then 127 echo "*** Error: Unable to determine path to python include dir." 128 fi 129 fi |
I ran the script and it worked well, although a sed error showed up at the end which I did not capture in a log. I jumped back into the 1.6.x directory and ran Allwmake for the third time. This ran through ok, and finally the ParaFoam reader was compiled,
cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV3FoamReader ./Allwclean ./Allwmake
Running foamInstallationTest showed a problem with the compiler path. So I modified the settings file to better handle a "System" selection for the compiler
| File: $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty-1.6.x/tools/makeParaViewFunctions |
133 System) # JDH {{{
134 WM_COMPILER=Gcc # This is used to label executable directories
135 compilerName=gcc # This is the real local compiler name
136 # WM_COMPILER_DIR needs to remove the /bin component of the path, so snip twice
137 WM_COMPILER_DIR=$(dirname $(dirname $(which $compilerName)))
138 if [ ! -d "$WM_COMPILER_DIR/bin" ]
139 then
140 echo
141 echo "Warning in $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/settings.sh:"
142 echo " Cannot find $WM_COMPILER_DIR/bin installation."
143 echo " Please manually specify WM_COMPILER, WM_COMPILER_DIR,"
144 echo " and WM_COMPILER_LIB in this file"
145 echo
146 fi
147
148 compilerBin=$WM_COMPILER_DIR/bin/$compilerName
149
150 WM_COMPILER_LIB=$(dirname $(ldd $compilerBin \
151 | grep 'libc\.so' | awk '{print $3}'))
152
153 compilerLib=$WM_COMPILER_LIB
154
155 export WM_COMPILER
156 export WM_COMPILER_DIR
157 export WM_COMPILER_LIB
158 #}}}
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1.3 ParaFoam problem
The cavity icoFoam test case worked fine but when ParaFoam was activated up came a popup with
A reader for '...' could not be found. Please choose one:
I've had this problem previously, too. The Qt version being used was
> qmake --version QMake version 2.01a Using Qt version 4.3.1 in /home/hoogland/opt/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.1/lib
The annoying thing here is that neither Paraview nor the PV3FoamReader gave any errors or hints during compilation. Encouraged by success reported by others in using a newer Qt version, I downloaded and compiled Qt-4.3.5,
cd $HOME/opt wget ftp://ftp.trolltech.com/qt/source/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5.tar.gz tar xzvf qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5.tar.gz cd qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5 ./configure -prefix $HOME/opt/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.5 make make install
The path needed to be adjusted from Qt-4.3.1 to Qt-4.3.5,
| File: $HOME/.bashrc |
... export PATH=$HOME/opt/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.5/bin:$PATH ... |
Paraview then PV3FoamReader and just to be sure OpenFOAM-1.6.x/Allwmake were rebuilt. The compilation output was quite different for Paraview between Qt 4.3.1 and 4.3.5. paraFoam then worked perfectly.
