OpenFOAM-5.x Third-Party packages
Table of Contents
1 Description
Scripts for building third-party packages.
3 Order of execution:
- makeGcc (recommended if the system gcc is < 4.8)
- Allwmake (Builds OpenMPI, Scotch etc.)
- makeParaView
3.1 Optional
- AllwmakeLibccmio (Only required for conversion of STAR-CCM+ meshes)
- Allclean (Only required to save disk space)
4 Versions and locations to download the third party packages
4.1 Gcc C++ Compiler
The minimum version of gcc required is 4.8.0
4.2 Parallel Processing
4.2.1 Scotch
Scotch-6.0.3 is provided with ThirdParty-5.x or the original source pack may be obtained from:
4.2.2 OpenMPI
4.3 ParaView
Patched versions of the ParaView source code were once provided for ParaView v5.0.1. With the current supported version of ParaView (v.5.4.0), the source code
- ParaView-5.4.0 http://www.paraview.org/files/v5.4/ParaView-v5.4.0.tar.gz
is downloaded automatically and compiles without modification. ParaView is
compiled by running the makeParaView script, i.e.
- ./makeParaView
Expect ParaView to take a long time to compile, typically several hours on a desktop computer. Following compilation, update the environment by sourcing the .bashrc (or .cshrc) file or by typing
- wmRefresh