[Tobi]

Hello everybody,

based on the survey I made on my website, the wish of the community was to create a new session of screencasts that show how to program in OpenFOAM. Therefore, I started to create new videos which can be checked out in the link below. During the screencasts I am trying to talk about the following things:

• Recommended system set-up for development (not necessary but very useful)
• Creating a new solver (cavitatingFoam into boilingFoam)
  • Preparing the new solver
  • Analyzing the files/structure of the solver
  • Talking about different objects and the usage of Doxygen
  • Changing the corresponding solver in order to simulate boiling
• Set-up of a simple test case
• Talking about gdb and the usage

The videos can be found here: Screencasts about programming in OpenFOAM

[nsf]

Hi Tobi,

Yet another great screen cast. Really good work!

I'm sure you had a good reason to copy OpenFOAM-dev and ThirdParty-dev to a separate folder for the debug version. For others who are starting programming with OpenFOAM:
You can also just set the environment variable WM_COMPILE_OPTION as an argument to etc/bascrc.

I've set two aliases in my $HOME/.bashrc like so:

OFINSTDIR=/path/to/somehere/OpenFOAM
alias ofdbg=". $OFINSTDIR/OpenFOAM-dev/etc/bashrc WM_COMPILE_OPTION=Debug"
alias of=". $OFINSTDIR/OpenFOAM-dev/etc/bashrc"

In order to compile the debug version I just have to run the alias "ofdbg", i.e.

ofdbg
cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR
./Allwmake

If everything is correctly setup, things should run smoothly. OpenFOAM doesn't overwrite anything. The debug version of the compiled libraries are found under $WM_PROJECT_DIR/platforms/*Debug

Keep up the good work Tobi!

P.s
I really like QtCreator, it's got a built in debugger and has smart auto-completion. Here's how to set it up for OpenFOAM
https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/H...with_QtCreator

[Tobi]

Great. I will mention your stuff in the next screencast or will add another inbetween. You are right, I just wanted to keep everything separated

Thank you for the hint and your Feedback.

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[Tobi]

Hi all,

last week I finished the project about the screencasts in the topic »developement in FOAM«. For some reason I choose the wrong solver at the beginning but that is not a big deal. I guess most people are just interested in the last video 5.6. Here I made a power-screencast in which I build the complete solver + some tutorial.

Have fun and maybe someone get something new out of it.