1 FreeFOAM README for Version {fullver}
2 =====================================
3 Michael Wild <themiwi@users.sourceforge.net>
5 v{fullver}, {localdate}
6 http://freefoam.sourceforge.net
10 FreeFOAM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
11 terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
12 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
13 version. See the file COPYING in this directory, for a description of the GNU
14 General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.
18 FreeFOAM is developed and tested on Linux, but should work with other Unix style
19 systems, notably Mac OS X (C). The support for Microsoft Windows is a goal,
20 which, however, is still far off.
22 Required software to build FreeFOAM
23 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
25 In order to build FreeFOAM you need to have CMake with version 2.8.0 or
26 newer installed. http://cmake.org
27 [[build_system]]Build system::
28 CMake requires a native build system. On Unix like platforms GNU Make is
29 recommended. http://www.gnu.org/software/make
30 [[cxx_compiler]]C++ compiler::
31 In order to build FreeFOAM you need a C\++ compiler with good support for
32 template expressions. The g++ compiler from GCC-4.3 and above will do
33 fine. http://gcc.gnu.org
35 The flex lexer generator. Version 2.5.33 is known to work. For more recent
36 versions there have been reports of problems. http://flex.sourceforge.net
38 zlib compression library. http://www.zlib.net
40 The METIS graph partitioning library, version 5.0pre2. If your package manager
41 doesn't contain it, you can also have FreeFOAM build it automatically for you
42 (see the <<installation,installation section>>).
43 http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview
45 The Python interpreter. Version 2.6.1 is known to work, but care has been
46 taken to make FreeFOAM work with versions from 2.4 on, including 3.x.
51 To check out a current development version of FreeFOAM, git is required.
53 [[parlib]]Parallel Communications Library::
54 In order to run FreeFOAM in parallel, a communications library is required.
55 The following list gives an overview of the available options:
56 - MPI (_Message Passing Interface_): There are many implementations of the MPI
57 standard. The one that has been tested and is known to work with FreeFOAM
58 is http://www.open-mpi.org[OpenMPI].
59 [[parmetis]]ParMetis::
60 If you use an MPI library, the ParMetis library is required. If your package
61 manager doesn't contain this library, FreeFOAM can build it automatically for
62 you (refer to the <<installation,installation notes>> below).
63 http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview
64 [[mgridgen]]MGRIDGEN:: MGRIDGEN is a grid coarsening library for multi-grid
65 solvers. FreeFOAM can build this automatically for you. Please refer to the
66 link:INSTALL.html#enable-parmgridgen[INSTALL] file for license restrictions.
67 http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/mgridgen/overview
68 [[libccmio]]libccmio::
69 pro-STAR (C) input/output library. FreeFOAM can build this automatically for
70 you. Please refer to the link:INSTALL.html#enable-ccmio[INSTALL] file for
72 https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz
73 [[paraview]]ParaView::
74 The FreeFOAM utility 'para' requires this visualization application, version
75 3.8 or later. http://www.paraview.org
77 Some of the provided tutorial cases require the M4 macro processor.
78 http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
80 Automatic API-documentation generator. Required to build the source
81 documentation. http://www.doxygen.org
82 [[asciidoc]]Asciidoc::
83 In order to create the man-pages or the html-documentation you need to have a
84 fully working Asciidoc toolchain installed. Versions newer than 8.5 are known
85 to work. Asciidoc itself needs Python 2.4 or newer (but not 3.x), xsltproc,
86 the DocBook XML DTD's and the DocBook XSL stylesheets. Refer to the Asciidoc
87 installation instructions for the details. http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc
91 For installation and basic usage instructions, refer to the
92 link:INSTALL.html[INSTALL] file.
96 All the applications and the frequently used script utilities come with a brief
97 man-page. Unfortunately, most of them are little more than stubs and need more
98 work. The man-page _freefoam(1)_ gives a short overview over all applications
99 and utilities and documents the FreeFOAM configuration options.
101 API-documentation is available from
102 http://freefoam.sourceforge.net/doc/Doxygen/html
104 Further, most FreeFOAM applications and utilities support the '-doc' and
105 '-srcDoc' options, which will automatically display the API-documentation and
106 the source code of the application, respectively.
110 - http://freefoam.sourceforge.net
111 - https://freefoam.wiki.sourceforge.net/MailingLists
112 - http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/ *please only ask questions related
113 to _OpenFOAM_ there*.
115 Reporting Bugs in FreeFOAM
116 --------------------------
117 http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/freefoam
119 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
120 Process with: asciidoc -a toc README
122 Vim users, this is for you:
123 vim: ft=asciidoc sw=2 expandtab fenc=utf-8
124 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////