[kit607]

Hi everyone.

I have OF 6 installed on the server but I wanted to compile a solver from OF141 to validate a test case. I am facing a problem with configure the

wmake/options

. In the files, there is EXE_INC and EXE_LIBS. I want to set that both to read the files but I got no idea how to set the path.

The original file is

EXE_INC = \
    -I$(LIB_SRC)/finiteVolume/lnInclude \
    -I$(LIB_SRC)/turbulenceModels \
    -I$(LIB_SRC)/transportModels

EXE_LIBS = \
    -lincompressibleTurbulenceModels \
    -lincompressibleTransportModels \
    -lfiniteVolume \
    -lmeshTools \
    /* $(LIB_WM_OPTIONS_DIR)/libfbsdmalloc.o */

and I modified it to

EXE_INC = \
    -I</home/mgt-aaibe/OpenFOAM/mgt-aaibe-6/src>/finiteVolume/lnInclude \
    -I</home/mgt-aaibe/OpenFOAM/mgt-aaibe-6/src>/turbulenceModels \
    -I</home/mgt-aaibe/OpenFOAM/mgt-aaibe-6/src>/transportModels

EXE_LIBS = \
    -lincompressibleTurbulenceModels \
    -lincompressibleTransportModels \
    -lfiniteVolume \
    -lmeshTools \
    /* $(LIB_WM_OPTIONS_DIR)/libfbsdmalloc.o */

In

https://cfd.direct/openfoam/user-guide/v7-compiling-applications/

, it shows

EXE_INC = \\
        -I<directoryPath1> \\

so I followed it but I not sure is that correct.

The second question is where is the LIBS store? I need to set it to read from my own directory too.

Appreciate your help.

[raumpolizei]

Hey there,
unless the libraries you are using are not provided in your openfoam version (lets call it OF-standard), you do not need to change the paths. To better understand, just type in your console (after sourcing your new openfoam version):

echo $FOAM_SRC

If, however, you need to provide all paths in a hard coded manner (not the best idea, especially if you are using the same code on different machines), you should correct

EXE_INC = \
-I</home/mgt-aaibe/OpenFOAM/mgt-aaibe-6/src>/finiteVolume/lnInclude \

to

EXE_INC = \
-I/home/mgt-aaibe/OpenFOAM/mgt-aaibe-6/src/finiteVolume/lnInclude \

in a same way you can get the path to the libraries with:

echo $FOAM_LIBBIN

But again, you do not need to specify the path in wmake files as the $FOAM_LIBBIN path is already included by default (which is why you never see any additional path included in common OF applications). Hope this helps. Good Luck!
RP

[kit607]

Hi Raumpolizei,

Thank for your quick response. The reason that I want to add all the path to the new solver is that I want to use the old solver from OF 1.4.1 in OF 6. I noticed there is a lot of changes been made when they release the new version especially from OF 2 to OF3. Therefore, I think is will be better for me to add the path to read the library.

Also, may I know what is the correct expression adding the new path to the libraries? Is it the below is a correct expression? Can you provide me an example on that too?

-L/home/mgt-aaibe/OpenFOAM/mgt-aaibe-6/lincompressibleTurbulenceModels

Thank you very much!

[raumpolizei]

Hey,
do I understand you correctly, you would like to compile an application in OF6 using libraries from OF 1.4? Even if that would be working, by doing that you would lose all the new functionalities of OF6. Generally, as you said, the code may have changed a lot which could be problematic (using a mix of OF6 and OF1.4 libraries will probably also not work). The clean way to do it would be to use the new OF6 libraries and then go over the compile errors one after another. So basically just use the same Make/files and Make/options with your new OF version sourced. You can still post the error message here (And also the Make/files & Make/options)

To your second question: In order to include a path so that the libraries to be linked with can be found, you need the following syntax (90% sure, should be the way though):


-L<directoryContainingLibraryPath> \
-l<aLibraryInThatDirectory>


Your example becomes:

-L/home/mgt-aaibe/OpenFOAM/mgt-aaibe-6 \
-lincompressibleTurbulenceModels

which will not work correctly if there is another library in any other included path with the same name (for instance in $FOAM_LIBBIN, see previous post).

[kit607]

Hi there,

Basically I want to compile a solver from OF 1.4 with it's own libraries in OF6 where the UEqn.H and pEqn.H is v1.4.

Is it possible for me to set only the new solver will access the OF1.4 libraries and other remains as OF6?

Thank you.