Installation/Windows/Cross-Compiling OpenFOAM 2.1.x in Linux For Windows with MinGW

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1 Introduction

To Do

2 Packages Required to Cross-Compile OpenFOAM

To Do

3 Preparing To Cross-Compile

3.2 Getting The Source

There are two options to get the source prepared:

1. Clone the official repository, checkout the version used to generate the Symscape patch and patch the source
2. Clone the repository maintained by J-Light at aims to keep up the official repository in terms of bug fixes.

The second may not always be the best option. After updating the code the only criteria used to push the source is if it compiles without any errors. If the first one is enough then go ahead and use it. However, if you need source from a more recent commit then use the repo maintained by J-Light.

3.2.1 Source: Official + Symscape Patch

1. Clone the official repo using git

   git clone https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.x.git
   git clone https://github.com/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.1.x.git

2. Get and extract the Symscape patch

   wget http://www.symscape.com/files/articles/openfoam21x-windows/v7-mingw-openfoam-2-1-x.patch.gz
   gzip -d v7-mingw-openfoam-2-1-x.patch.gz

3. Checkout the correct version of OpenFOAM

   cd OpenFOAM-2.1.x
   git checkout -b Symscape 971882b657c1730e27a8df8dcf06e6d5e5a47991

4. Check and apply patch

   git apply --check -p0 ../v7-mingw-openfoam-2-1-x.patch
   git apply -p0 ../v7-mingw-openfoam-2-1-x.patch

3.2.2 Source: Official + Symscape Patch + JLight updates

1. Clone the required repos

   git clone -b Win64 git://github.com/J-Light/OpenFOAM-2.1.x.git
   git clone https://github.com/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.1.x.git

2. Checkout the correct branch

   cd OpenFOAM-2.1.x
   git checkout Win64

6 Preparing the move to Windows

--Nishit Joseph (talk) 14:08, 5 December 2012 (CET)