{"id":1043,"date":"2011-09-16T17:29:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2011\/09\/16\/compile-install-deploy-openfoam-2.0-onto-the-sagrid"},"modified":"2015-08-14T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T11:22:20","slug":"compile-install-deploy-openfoam-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2011\/09\/16\/compile-install-deploy-openfoam-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Compile \/ Install \/ Deploy OpenFOAM 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"Big-Bytes decided to write up a quick tutorial on how to install OpenFOAM 2 in the user space. Administrators and users constantly battle with dependencies especially with the latest software releases. This problem begins when a system administrator installs and configures a Linux system. All is well in the beginning and users are happy but at some point the user will begin to complain about outdated software dependency versions. Some system dependencies can be upgraded rather quickly but others not and a user space compile is imminent. This was in the case of GCC, its linkers and the dependencies required to build GCC.\r\n\r\nOpenFoam 2 requires GCC 4.4 and above to compile correctly and on a Scientific Linux 5.4 system only GCC 4.1.2 was available. It is not recommended to upgrade a system-wide compiler such as GCC and its also not trivial to upgrade a linux machine while having to deal with the demands of users.\r\n\r\nCompile GCC<\/span><\/strong><\/u>\r\n\r\nCreate a directory $HOME\/contrib and $HOME\/contrib\/build. You can of course name these directories anyway you like.\r\nDownload all the dependencies for GCC. These are listed below and extract into contrib.\r\n