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These pointers for starting a port to an unsupported platform were posted in a discussion about [http://tfdpc67.tfd.chalmers.se/foam/discus/messages/1/112.html porting to Mac OS X] by Mattjis Janssens.


* in the <tt>XXX/.OpenFOAM-1.1/bashrc</tt> add a check for your machine type and set <tt>WM_ARCH</tt> and <tt>WM_MPLIB</tt>. You can leave <tt>WM_MPLIB</tt> empty (which will link in the dummy/ Pstream (which saves you having to compile lam or mpich))
* in the <tt>XXX/.bashrc</tt> add your architecture and set all the relevant variables to access gcc and java and such
* make a copy of e.g. <tt>$WM_DIR/rules/linux</tt> to <tt>$WM_DIR/rules/$WM_ARCH</tt> and adapt the settings in these files.
* have a look at <tt>XXX/Allwmake</tt> script which compiles up some binaries needed by 'wmake' itself ('<tt>cd wmake ; ./makeWmake</tt>')
* have a look at <tt>XXX/src/Allwmake</tt> and compile in the same order (leaving out the lam and mico if you don't want to run parallel or FoamX)