1 {project} README for Version {fullver}
2 ======================================
3 Michael Wild <themiwi@users.sourceforge.net>
5 v{fullver}, {localdate}
8 :apidoc: {homepage}/doc/Doxygen/html
9 :asciidoc: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc
10 :bugreport: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt/freefoam
11 :ccmio: https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz
12 :cmake: http://cmake.org
13 :doxygen: http://www.doxygen.org
14 :flex: http://flex.sourceforge.net
15 :gcc: http://gcc.gnu.org
16 :git: http://git.or.cz
17 :m4: http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
18 :make: http://www.gnu.org/software/make
19 :metis: http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/overview
20 :mgridgen: http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/mgridgen/overview
21 :openfoamforum: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam
22 :openmpi: http://www.open-mpi.org[OpenMPI]
23 :paraview: http://www.paraview.org
24 :parmetis: http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/parmetis/overview
25 :scotch: http://www.labri.fr/perso/pelegrin/scotch
26 :zlib: http://www.zlib.net
30 {project} is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
31 terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
32 Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
33 version. See the file COPYING in this directory, for a description of the GNU
34 General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.
38 {project} is developed and tested on Linux, but should work with other Unix
39 style systems, notably Mac OS X (C). The support for Microsoft Windows is a
40 goal, which, however, is still far off.
42 Required software to build {project}
43 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
45 In order to build {project} you need to have CMake with version 2.8.0 or
46 newer installed. {cmake}
47 [[build_system]]Build system::
48 CMake requires a native build system. On Unix like platforms GNU Make is
50 [[cxx_compiler]]{cpp} compiler::
51 In order to build {project} you need a {cpp} compiler with good support for
52 template expressions. The g++ compiler from GCC-4.3 and above will do
55 The flex lexer generator. Version 2.5.33 is known to work. For more recent
56 versions there have been reports of problems. {flex}
58 zlib compression library. {zlib}
60 The SCOTCH graph partitioning library. Version 5.1.7 is know to work.
63 The Python interpreter. Version 2.6.1 is known to work, but care has been
64 taken to make {project} work with versions from 2.4 on, including 3.x.
69 To check out a current development version of {project}, git is required.
71 [[parlib]]Parallel Communications Library::
72 In order to run {project} in parallel, a communications library is required.
73 The following list gives an overview of the available options:
74 - MPI (_Message Passing Interface_): There are many implementations of the
75 MPI standard. The one that has been tested and is known to work with
76 {project} is {openmpi}.
78 The METIS graph partitioning library, version 5.0pre2. If your package
79 manager doesn't contain it, you can also have {project} build it
80 automatically for you (see the <<installation,installation section>>).
82 [[parmetis]]ParMetis::
83 If you use an MPI library, the ParMetis library is required. If your package
84 manager doesn't contain this library, {project} can build it automatically
85 for you (refer to the <<installation,installation notes>> below). {parmetis}
86 [[mgridgen]]MGRIDGEN:: MGRIDGEN is a grid coarsening library for multi-grid
87 solvers. {project} can build this automatically for you. Please refer to the
88 link:INSTALL.html#enable-parmgridgen[INSTALL] file for license restrictions.
90 [[libccmio]]libccmio::
91 pro-STAR (C) input/output library. {project} can build this automatically for
92 you. Please refer to the link:INSTALL.html#enable-ccmio[INSTALL] file for
93 license restrictions. {ccmio}
94 [[paraview]]ParaView::
95 The {project} utility 'para' requires this visualization application, version
96 3.8 or later. {paraview}
98 Some of the provided tutorial cases require the M4 macro processor. {m4}
100 Automatic API-documentation generator. Required to build the source
101 documentation. {doxygen}
102 [[asciidoc]]Asciidoc::
103 In order to create the man-pages or the html-documentation you need to have a
104 fully working Asciidoc toolchain installed. Versions newer than 8.5 are known
105 to work. Asciidoc itself needs Python 2.4 or newer (but not 3.x), xsltproc,
106 the DocBook XML DTD's and the DocBook XSL stylesheets. Refer to the Asciidoc
107 installation instructions for the details. {asciidoc}
112 For installation and basic usage instructions, refer to the
113 link:INSTALL.html[INSTALL] file.
117 All the applications and the frequently used script utilities come with a brief
118 man-page. Unfortunately, most of them are little more than stubs and need more
119 work. The man-page _freefoam(1)_ gives a short overview over all applications
120 and utilities and documents the {project} configuration options.
122 API-documentation is available from {apidoc}.
124 Further, most {project} applications and utilities support the '-doc' and
125 '-srcDoc' options, which will automatically display the API-documentation and
126 the source code of the application, respectively.
131 - {openfoamforum} *please only ask questions related to _OpenFOAM_ there*.
133 Reporting Bugs in {project}
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