Revision as of 10:15, 18 January 2015

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 0.3.1 and newer.

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

2.2 swak4Foam 0.3.1 and newer

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, simply by running:

   ./maintainanceScripts/compileRequirements.sh

3. Now you can simply go on with the installation of swak4Foam, since the missing requirements should have been built with success.