Revision as of 11:30, 28 April 2007

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1 Compiling on 1.4

This is just a sketch. More will come

1.1 Preparing for Compilation

• Install latest XCode
• Generate a disk-image with a Case-sensitive filesystem
  • Using the command-line tool hdiutil (the GUI-tool can't do this as far as I remember). Details will follow
    • REMARK: It actually can. Open the Disk Utility, create a new image as usual, then in the "Erase"-tab select one of the case sensitive file systems from the "Volume Format" drop-down and click on "erase".
• Install additional Utilities via darwinports
  • I think flex++, but I'm not sure

1.2 Preparing the sources

• Extract the sources into the disk-image
• Apply the patch Media:OpenFOAM1.4-forMac.v1.patch

1.3 Compilation

See the regular README

This should compile everything except for

• the Paraview-connection (paraFoam)
• FoamX-stuff

1.4 Comments on the patch

• the stuff in doubleFloat.H repairs the fact that the Apple-headers don't have prototypes for those functions (don't know if they exist in the Library)
  • Should be guarded with a #ifdef darwin
• Most of the other stuff is described in the section about 1.3 below
• I compiled with the compiler Apple provides (gcc 4.0,1). If you get a newer one from darwinports some of the changes might not be needed

1.5 Compile with paraview 2.6

This is a bit messy.

• Compile Paraview according to http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:FAQ#How_do_I_compile_ParaView_for_Mac_OS_X .3F (doesn't have to be on the case sensitve file system)
  • install it
• Point apps/paraview/??rc to that installation
  • You might have to copy the header file to the place where they are expected ($ParaView_Dir/include)
• Go to $FOAM_UTILITIES/postprocessing/graphics/PVReader
• Start the Allwmake there. It will fail at linking the libPVReader.so
• Go to PVReader/Make/darwinOpt
  • Under that directory you will find (sorry I'm not at my Computer so I don't know the exact location) a file link.txt
  • In link.txt append -undefined dynamic_lookup
    • This change will be lost with every subsequent call to cmake
  • Call make (in PVReader/Make/darwinOpt). It should link
• now paraFoam should be usable

1.6 Future plans

• Incorporate FoamX

1.7 Tested systems

This has only been tried on a PowerPC iBook yet.

2 Old Stuff: Verbose description on 1.3

Currently this page only gives a description which files have been modified to compile the vanilla-1.3-sources (this is basically a transcript of my notes). A more detailed description will be given when I have the time (plus I want to wait for 1.4 until I do that)

Stuff with a question mark are things I don't know without looking at the source what I have done

• basrc and cshrc in .OpenFOAM and paraview modified to recognize darwin

• applications//utilities/miscellaneous/foamFlex/flexdef.h: malloc.h is in different location

• OSSpecific/Unix/fileStat.C: sysmacros

• error.C: special case for darwin Darwin

• wmake/Makefile: rules for darwin-dylib

• .cshrc and .bashrc ?

• rusles/darwin (Changes on LINKEXE - there's got to be another way)

• TODO: DYLIB_PATH in normale Files

• sonicFoamAutoMotion: Addition in options (meshTools must be linked to it)
  • moveMesh: ditto
  • boxTurb: ditto
  • mapFields: ditto

• financialFoam: finiteVolume
  • icoErrorEstimate: detto
  • momentScalarError: detto
  • icoMomentError: detto

• in /applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVFoamReader/PVFoamReader/Make/darwinDPOpt CMakeFiles/PVFoamReader.dir/build.make for the linking command the option "-undefined dynamic_lookup" has to be added

--Bgschaid 14:36, 22 Mar 2007 (CET)