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552 <body>
553 <div id="header">
554 <h1></h1>
555 <span id="author">Michael Wild</span><br />
556 <span id="email"><tt>&lt;<a href="mailto:themiwi@users.sourceforge.net">themiwi@users.sourceforge.net</a>&gt;</tt></span><br />
557 <div id="toc">
558 <div id="toctitle">Table of Contents</div>
559 <noscript><p><b>JavaScript must be enabled in your browser to display the table of contents.</b></p></noscript>
560 </div>
561 </div>
562 <div id="content">
563 <div id="preamble">
564 <div class="sectionbody">
565 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="http://freefoam.sourceforge.net">http://freefoam.sourceforge.net</a></p></div>
566 </div>
567 </div>
568 <h2 id="_copyright">Copyright</h2>
569 <div class="sectionbody">
570 <div class="paragraph"><p>FreeFOAM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
571 terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
572 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
573 version. See the file COPYING in this directory, for a description of the GNU
574 General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.</p></div>
575 </div>
576 <h2 id="_system_requirements">System requirements</h2>
577 <div class="sectionbody">
578 <div class="paragraph"><p>FreeFOAM is developed and tested on Linux, but should work with other Unix style
579 systems, notably Mac OS X &#169;. The support for Microsoft Windows is a goal,
580 which, however, is still far off.</p></div>
581 <h3 id="_required_software_to_build_freefoam">Required software to build FreeFOAM</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
582 <div class="dlist"><dl>
583 <dt class="hdlist1">
584 <a id="cmake"></a>CMake
585 </dt>
586 <dd>
588 In order to build FreeFOAM you need to have CMake with version 2.8.0 or
589 newer installed. <a href="http://cmake.org">http://cmake.org</a>
590 </p>
591 </dd>
592 <dt class="hdlist1">
593 <a id="build_system"></a>Build system
594 </dt>
595 <dd>
597 CMake requires a native build system. On Unix like platforms GNU Make is
598 recommended. <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make">http://www.gnu.org/software/make</a>
599 </p>
600 </dd>
601 <dt class="hdlist1">
602 <a id="cxx_compiler"></a>C++ compiler
603 </dt>
604 <dd>
606 In order to build FreeFOAM you need a C++ compiler with good support for
607 template expressions. The g++ compiler from GCC-4.3 and above will do
608 fine. <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">http://gcc.gnu.org</a>
609 </p>
610 </dd>
611 <dt class="hdlist1">
612 <a id="flex"></a>flex
613 </dt>
614 <dd>
616 The flex lexer generator. Version 2.5.33 is known to work. For more recent
617 versions there have been reports of problems. <a href="http://flex.sourceforge.net">http://flex.sourceforge.net</a>
618 </p>
619 </dd>
620 <dt class="hdlist1">
621 <a id="zlib"></a>zlib
622 </dt>
623 <dd>
625 zlib compression library. <a href="http://www.zlib.net">http://www.zlib.net</a>
626 </p>
627 </dd>
628 <dt class="hdlist1">
629 <a id="metis"></a>METIS
630 </dt>
631 <dd>
633 The METIS graph partitioning library, version 5.0pre2. If your package manager
634 doesn&#8217;t contain it, you can also have FreeFOAM build it automatically for you
635 (see the <a href="#installation">installation section</a>).
636 <a href="http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview">http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview</a>
637 </p>
638 </dd>
639 <dt class="hdlist1">
640 <a id="python"></a>Python
641 </dt>
642 <dd>
644 The Python interpreter. Version 2.6.1 is known to work, but care has been
645 taken to make FreeFOAM work with versions from 2.4 on, including 3.x.
646 </p>
647 </dd>
648 </dl></div>
649 <h3 id="_optional_software">Optional software</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
650 <div class="dlist"><dl>
651 <dt class="hdlist1">
652 <a id="git"></a>git
653 </dt>
654 <dd>
656 To check out a current development version of FreeFOAM, git is required.
657 <a href="http://git.or.cz">http://git.or.cz</a>
658 </p>
659 </dd>
660 <dt class="hdlist1">
661 <a id="parlib"></a>Parallel Communications Library
662 </dt>
663 <dd>
665 In order to run FreeFOAM in parallel, a communications library is required.
666 The following list gives an overview of the available options:
667 </p>
668 <div class="ulist"><ul>
669 <li>
671 MPI (<em>Message Passing Interface</em>): There are many implementations of the MPI
672 standard. The one that has been tested and is known to work with FreeFOAM
673 is <a href="http://www.open-mpi.org">OpenMPI</a>.
674 </p>
675 </li>
676 <li>
678 GAMMA (<em>Genoa Active Message MAchine</em>) is available from
679 <a href="http://www.disi.unige.it/project/gamma">http://www.disi.unige.it/project/gamma</a>.
680 </p>
681 </li>
682 </ul></div>
683 </dd>
684 <dt class="hdlist1">
685 <a id="parmetis"></a>ParMetis
686 </dt>
687 <dd>
689 If you use an MPI library, the ParMetis library is required. If your package
690 manager doesn&#8217;t contain this library, FreeFOAM can build it automatically for
691 you (refer to the <a href="#installation">installation notes</a> below).
692 <a href="http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview">http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview</a>
693 </p>
694 </dd>
695 <dt class="hdlist1">
696 <a id="mgridgen"></a>MGRIDGEN
697 </dt>
698 <dd>
700 MGRIDGEN is a grid coarsening library for multi-grid
701 solvers. FreeFOAM can build this automatically for you. Please refer to the
702 <a href="INSTALL.html#enable-parmgridgen">INSTALL</a> file for license restrictions.
703 <a href="http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/mgridgen/overview">http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/mgridgen/overview</a>
704 </p>
705 </dd>
706 <dt class="hdlist1">
707 <a id="libccmio"></a>libccmio
708 </dt>
709 <dd>
711 pro-STAR &#169; input/output library. FreeFOAM can build this automatically for
712 you. Please refer to the <a href="INSTALL.html#enable-ccmio">INSTALL</a> file for
713 license restrictions.
714 <a href="https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz">https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz</a>
715 </p>
716 </dd>
717 <dt class="hdlist1">
718 <a id="paraview"></a>ParaView
719 </dt>
720 <dd>
722 If you want to build the <a href="http://paraview.org">ParaView</a> plug-ins, you need a
723 ParaView with the development headers <strong>and</strong> the corresponding CMake configuration
724 files (<em>ParaViewConfig.cmake</em>, <em>ParaViewUse.cmake</em>, <em>ParaViewLibraryDepends*.cmake</em>).
725 Most likely this means that you have to build ParaView yourself.
726 <a href="http://paraview.org">http://paraview.org</a>
727 </p>
728 </dd>
729 <dt class="hdlist1">
730 <a id="m4"></a>M4
731 </dt>
732 <dd>
734 Some of the provided tutorial cases require the M4 macro processor.
735 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/">http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/</a>
736 </p>
737 </dd>
738 <dt class="hdlist1">
739 <a id="doxygen"></a>Doxygen
740 </dt>
741 <dd>
743 Automatic API-documentation generator. Required to build the source
744 documentation. <a href="http://www.doxygen.org">http://www.doxygen.org</a>
745 </p>
746 </dd>
747 <dt class="hdlist1">
748 <a id="asciidoc"></a>Asciidoc
749 </dt>
750 <dd>
752 In order to create the man-pages or the html-documentation you need to have a
753 fully working Asciidoc toolchain installed. Versions newer than 8.5 are known
754 to work. Asciidoc itself needs Python 2.4 or newer (but not 3.x), xsltproc,
755 the DocBook XML DTD&#8217;s and the DocBook XSL stylesheets. Refer to the Asciidoc
756 installation instructions for the details. <a href="http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc">http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc</a>
757 </p>
758 </dd>
759 </dl></div>
760 </div>
761 <h2 id="_installation">Installation</h2>
762 <div class="sectionbody">
763 <div class="paragraph"><p>For installation and basic usage instructions, refer to the
764 <a href="INSTALL.html">INSTALL</a> file.</p></div>
765 </div>
766 <h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
767 <div class="sectionbody">
768 <div class="paragraph"><p>All the applications and the frequently used script utilities come with a brief
769 man-page. Unfortunately, most of them are little more than stubs and need more
770 work. The man-pages <em>freefoam(7)</em> gives a short overview over all applications
771 and utilities, and <em>freefoam-config(7)</em> documents the FreeFOAM configuration
772 options.</p></div>
773 <div class="paragraph"><p>API-documentation is available from
774 <a href="http://freefoam.sourceforge.net/doc/Doxygen/html">http://freefoam.sourceforge.net/doc/Doxygen/html</a></p></div>
775 <div class="paragraph"><p>Further, most FreeFOAM applications and utilities support the <em>-doc</em> and
776 <em>-srcDoc</em> options, which will automatically display the API-documentation and
777 the source code of the application, respectively.</p></div>
778 </div>
779 <h2 id="_help">Help</h2>
780 <div class="sectionbody">
781 <div class="ulist"><ul>
782 <li>
784 <a href="http://freefoam.sourceforge.net">http://freefoam.sourceforge.net</a>
785 </p>
786 </li>
787 <li>
789 <a href="https://freefoam.wiki.sourceforge.net/MailingLists">https://freefoam.wiki.sourceforge.net/MailingLists</a>
790 </p>
791 </li>
792 <li>
794 <a href="http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/">http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/</a> <strong>please only ask questions related
795 to <em>OpenFOAM</em> there</strong>.
796 </p>
797 </li>
798 </ul></div>
799 </div>
800 <h2 id="_reporting_bugs_in_freefoam">Reporting Bugs in FreeFOAM</h2>
801 <div class="sectionbody">
802 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=215833">https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=215833</a></p></div>
803 </div>
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