Installation/swak4Foam/Building dependencies
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:
- If your system provides Bison 3.0 by default.
- And swak4Foam needs a version of Bison between 2.5 and 2.8.
- Then you'll need to follow the instructions provided in section #Bison.
2 m4
If m4 is not installed, too old or buggy, then follow these steps:
Assuming you already have the necessary utilities for building C and C++ source code, then this should do the trick:
- If not already there, go into swak4Foam's folder:
cd swak4Foam
- Download, unpack, compile and install Bison, by running:
wget http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/m4/m4-1.4.17.tar.gz tar -xf m4-1.4.17.tar.gz cd m4-1.4.17 ./configure --prefix $PWD/../m4 make make install cd ..
- Now, before running swak4Foam's script Allwmake or before building Bison, run this command:
export PATH=$PWD/m4/bin:$PATH
3 Bison
There are currently 2 ways to build Bison from source code:
- Manually, when using swak4Foam 0.3.0 and older.
- Nearly automatically, using the script provided in swak4Foam 0.3.1 and newer.
3.1 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:
- If not already there, go into swak4Foam's folder:
cd swak4Foam
- 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 $PWD/../bison make make install cd ..
Note: If you have problems during the configure step, check the following link: m4 is not present, too old or buggy
- Now, before running swak4Foam's script Allwmake, run this command:
export PATH=$PWD/bison/bin:$PATH
3.2 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:
- If not already there, go into swak4Foam's folder:
cd swak4Foam
- Download, unpack, compile and install Bison, simply by running:
./maintainanceScripts/compileRequirements.sh
Note: If you have problems during the configure step, check the following link: m4 is not present, too old or buggy
- Now you can simply go on with the installation of swak4Foam, since the missing requirements should have been built with success.