OpenFOAM README for version 1.6

OpenFOAM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING in this directory, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.

OpenFOAM is developed and tested on Linux, but should work with other POSIX systems. To check your system setup, execute the foamSystemCheck script in the bin/ directory of the OpenFOAM installation.

The environment variable settings are contained in files in an etc/ directory in the OpenFOAM release. e.g. in

• $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/
• EITHER, if running bash or ksh (if in doubt type 'echo $SHELL'), source the etc/bashrc file by adding the following line to the end of your $HOME/.bashrc file:
  • . $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc

  Update the environment variables by sourcing the $HOME/.bashrc file by typing in the terminal:

  • . $HOME/.bashrc
• OR, if running tcsh or csh, source the etc/cshrc file by adding the following line to the end of your $HOME/.cshrc file:
  • source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/cshrc

  Update the environment variables by sourcing the $HOME/.cshrc file by typing in the terminal:

  • source $HOME/.cshrc

You will first need to compile or obtain a recent version of gcc (we recommend gcc-4.3.?) for your platform, which may be obtained from http://gcc.gnu.org/.

Install the compiler in $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ThirdParty/gcc-<GCC_VERSION>/platforms/$WM_ARCH$WM_COMPILER_ARCH/ and change the gcc version number in $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/settings.sh and $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/settings.csh appropriately and finally update the environment variables as in section 3.

Go to the top-level source directory $WM_PROJECT_DIR and execute the build script './Allwmake'. This should build everything, but if problems occur with the build order it may be necessary to update the environment variables and re-execute 'Allwmake'.

If you experience difficulties with building the source-pack, or your platform is not currently supported, please contact <enquiries@OpenCFD.co.uk> to negotiate a support contract and we will do the port and maintain it for future releases.

http://www.OpenFOAM.org/doc

http://www.opencfd.co.uk/training.html#training http://www.OpenFOAM.org http://www.OpenFOAM.org/discussion.html

http://www.OpenFOAM.org/bugs.html