Revision as of 22:16, 22 March 2014

1 Introduction

This page is dedicated to explaining how to build certain dependencies from source code, which swak4Foam might specifically need, in case the system's default versions are incompatible. For example:

1. If your system provides Bison 3.0 by default.
2. And swak4Foam needs a version of Bison between 2.5 and 2.8.
3. Then you'll need to follow the instructions provided in section #Bison.

2 Bison

There are currently 2 ways to build Bison from source code:

1. Manually, when using #swak4Foam 0.3.0 and older.
2. Nearly automatically, using the script provided in swak4Foam. TODO: This is present in the development version, but has not yet been released in a stable version.

2.1 swak4Foam 0.3.0 and older

Assuming you already have the necessary utilities for building C and C++ source code, then this should do the trick:

1. If not already there, go into swak4Foam's folder:

   cd swak4Foam

2. Download, unpack, compile and install Bison, by running:

   wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/bison/bison-2.7.tar.gz
   tar -xf bison-2.7.tar.gz
   cd bison-2.7
   ./configure --prefix $PWD/../bison
   make
   make install
   cd ..

3. Now, before running swak4Foam's script Allwmake, run this command:

   export PATH=$PWD/bison/bin:$PATH