OpenFOAM-dev Third-Party packages

Table of Contents

1 Description

Scripts for building third-party packages.

2 Download and installation instructions

3 Order of execution:

  • makeGcc (recommended if the system gcc is < 4.8)
  • Allwmake (Builds OpenMPI, Scotch, Zoltan etc.)
  • makeCmake (if the system cmake version is < 3.3.0)
  • 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

4.2 Parallel Processing

4.2.1 Scotch

Scotch-6.0.9 is provided with ThirdParty-dev or the original source pack may be obtained from:

4.3 ParaView

If the system cmake version is < 3.3.0 you will need to download and build a recent version:

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

Date: 22th December 2021

Created: 2021-12-22 Wed 17:08

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