- the current working path with replacements for base-level
OpenFOAM env variables such as FOAM_RUN, WM_PROJECT_DIR,
WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR etc
Can be used directly from the command-line or embedded into a
command prompt. For example,
PS1='$(foamPwd)\n\u\$ '
- aliases for user solver/utilities located under "$WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR":
(ufoam, uapp, usol, uutil)
- handling of dead links (find -L -delete unsupported)
- remove ignore case flag on 's/../../i' used in have_scotch script.
It is unneeded and not tolerated by Darwin's sed.
- avoid embedded comments in EXE_INC (Make/options files), which do
not work well with the OSX LLVM cpp.
It strips out the comments but also removes the continuation char.
STYLE: adjust notes about paraview library locations
- generalize some of the library extensions (.so vs .dylib).
Provide as wmake 'sysFunctions'
- added note about unsupported/incomplete system support
- centralize detection of ThirdParty packages into wmake/ subdirectory
by providing a series of scripts in the spirit of GNU autoconfig.
For example,
have_boost, have_readline, have_scotch, ...
Each of the `have_<package>` scripts will generally provide the
following type of functions:
have_<package> # detection
no_<package> # reset
echo_<package> # echoing
and the following type of variables:
HAVE_<package> # unset or 'true'
<package>_ARCH_PATH # root for <package>
<package>_INC_DIR # include directory for <package>
<package>_LIB_DIR # library directory for <package>
This simplifies the calling scripts:
if have_metis
then
wmake metisDecomp
fi
As well as reducing clutter in the corresponding Make/options:
EXE_INC = \
-I$(METIS_INC_DIR) \
-I../decompositionMethods/lnInclude
LIB_LIBS = \
-L$(METIS_LIB_DIR) -lmetis
Any additional modifications (platform-specific or for an external build
system) can now be made centrally.
- a partial selection from https://github.com/mrklein/openfoam-os-x
with adjustments. The primary purpose is to reduce header-level
incompatibilities and to provide a common set of make rules to allow
easier patching (or re-integration).
ParaView 5.4 and older:
- requires lib/paraview-X.X only
ParaView 5.5:
- requires lib/
- does not appear to require lib/paraview-X.X, but retained for simplicity
- Change default version to paraview-5.5.0 for testing purposes
- primary points for an external user are the polyMesh constructor
- add config info for gcc-7.3.0
COMP: intel-2017. Ignore unknown pragmas. Disambiguate method resolution.
- export library path for gmp/mpfr from CGAL config files.
This is required when non-system gmp/mpfr libraries are being
used, but not using a ThirdParty compiler installation.
- automatically handle lib/ vs lib64/ (eg, for central installations)
for packages such as boost, CGAL, etc. While the ThirdParty
compilation of these will normally land in lib64/, this may not be
the case when they are supplied by another means.
- reworked the handling of foamEtcFile and foamCleanPath for less
clutter in the configuration files.
Added the bin/tools/lib-dir script to handle logic that is
too complex to easily manage in csh.
- required if there is no system openmp and libomp or libgomp are
only found in the clang hierarchy
STYLE: add some notes in the openmp rules.
- the _OPENMP macro is now used in low-level testing files
- relocate WM_COMPILER_ARCH, WM_COMPILER_LIB_ARCH from
etc/{bashrc,cshrc} to etc/config.{csh,sh}/settings since these
should not be changed by the user anyhow.
- Use gcc/g++ as common base and specialize afterwards (to reduce
duplication)
- adjust format of WM_PROJECT_SITE fallback to allow for easier
automated edits
- this provides a better typesafe means of locating predefined cell
models than relying on strings. The lookup is now ptr() or ref()
directly. The lookup functions behave like on-demand singletons when
loading "etc/cellModels".
Functionality is now located entirely in cellModel but a forwarding
version of cellModeller is provided for API (but not ABI) compatibility
with older existing user code.
STYLE: use constexpr for cellMatcher constants
- this reduces the number of functions and allows lazy loading of
completion options, which makes it easy to quickly add any other
OpenFOAM application in completion.
The generic '_of_complete_' function handles (bash) completion for
any OpenFOAM application. On the first call for any particular
application, it retrieves the available options from the application
help output and adds this information to its environmental cache for
subsequent use.
- Tcsh completion uses the same function via a bash wrapper.
But since its wrapper is transient, the on-the-fly generation would
be less efficient. For this case, a pre-generated completion_cache
can be used, which is generated with
bin/tools/foamCreateCompletionCache
- handles the case where we are currently completing something that
does not appear to be an option. For example,
foamDictionary -expanded someD[TAB]
should complete the filename, not present more options.
- currently no cleanup of completions when deactivating an OpenFOAM
tcsh environment
- tab completion with directories adds a space after the slash, which
makes navigation a bit annoying.
- add note in BuildIssues about the I_MPI_CC variable, which is needed
when building with Intel-MPI and gcc/clang.
This additional setting is needed since the changes needed to solve
the issue of building scotch with Intel-MPI and icc (issue #434)
means that mpiicc is now being used as the wrapper when compiling
scotch.
- have the FOAM_MPI short name for INTELMPI start with 'impi-' instead
of just the version number.
Intel-MPI is often installed as /opt/intel/impi/4.1.3.049, which
results in 'FOAM_MPI=4.1.3.049' and the mpi flavour is lost.
Prefix these cases with 'impi-'
- suppress error messages that appear with zsh.
According to unset(1p), 'unset -f' unsets a function.
If the function was not previously defined, this is a no-op.
This is similar for zsh, but there it emits a warning if the
function was not previously defined.
- avoid 'local' in functions sources from etc/bashrc.
ksh does not support this.
- use 'command' shell builtin instead of 'type'.
Seems to be more consistent between shell flavours.
- this implies that jobControl is a user-resource for OpenFOAM.
It was previously located under $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/jobControl,
but few users will have write access there.
- an unset FOAM_JOB_DIR variable is treated as "~/.OpenFOAM/jobControl",
which can partially reduce environment clutter.
- provide argList::noJobInfo() to conveniently suppress job-info on an
individual basis for short-running utilities (eg, foamListTimes) to
avoid unneeded clutter.
- permit SYSTEMMPI user adjustments via
etc/config.{csh,sh}/mpi-system
This can be a convenient place for setting up SYSTEMMPI for OpenFOAM
without adjusting bashrc, prefs.sh ...
- add a USERMPI type. This represents any generic mpi implementation.
The user is responsible for supplying an appropriate
wmake/rules/General/mplibUSERMPI file and managing all settings.
This type of setup can be useful in combination with specific build
systems (SPACK, EASYBUILD, etc) or module systems for which the MPI
variant is part of the installed configuration.
- lazier evaluation of project name and version based on the directory
name. Avoids heuristics based on directory names unless really needed.
- cope with alternative directory locations.
For example, OpenFOAM+VERSION etc.
The combination of the two above appears to be sufficient to open up
the directory naming possibilities.
- additional -list-test option (tests for existence of directory).
- handle sourcing bashrc with a relative path (issue #383)
- handle sourcing from bash and zsh.
Still need manual intervention when sourcing dash, sh, or ksh.
- replace grep in etc/cshrc with sed only
- logical instead of physical path for WM_PROJECT_DIR (issue #431).
Doesn't seem to be possible for csh/tcsh.
* Continue using physical locations when comparing directories,
but not for the top-level FOAM_INST_DIR, WM_PROJECT_DIR.
- relocate WM_CC, WM_CXX overrides from etc/config.*/compiler
to etc/config.*/settings to ensure that they are left untouched
when etc/config.sh/compiler is sourced while making third-party
packages (eg, gcc, llvm, CGAL).
- provide fallback FOAM_TUTORIALS setting in RunFunctions
STYLE: remove "~OpenFOAM" fallback as being too rare, non-obvious
Can now use this:
_foamSourceEtc config.sh/scotch
_foamSourceEtc config.csh/scotch
instead of this:
_foamSource $($WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/foamEtcFile config.sh/scotch)
_foamSource `$WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/foamEtcFile config.csh/scotch`
In the bash/sh version, leave the _foamSource function for now, since
ThirdParty is still relying on it.
STYLE: elminate while-loop for _foamAddPath etc since this type of
construct isn't readily possible for csh and isn't being used anywhere.
- as per bashrc,cshrc delimit with
"# USER EDITABLE PART"
"# END OF (NORMAL) USER EDITABLE PART"
this can help simplify any patching for system-building scripts etc.
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH was not being cleaned at all when switching between
paraview versions.
- PATH was cleaned against the third-party paraview-*, although 3rd
party paraview is installed as ParaView-*.
The additional cleanup for ParaView_DIR may not catch this (if it
was unset elsewhere).
- wm32/wm64 were for changing between -m32, -m64 builds on x86_64
architectures. This is seldom enough not to warrant a special alias.
Also ambiguous if these could refer to label sizes.
- Remove wm32,wm64 aliases.
- Add wmInt32, wmInt64 aliases for switching WM_LABEL_SIZE.
STYLE: only use paraview settings when actually available
- this means executing makeParaView prior to building OpenFOAM itself,
but is consistent with the instructions given by makeParaView,
and elminates anticipating the source location from the paraview
config file, which increases the build flexibilty for ThirdParty
- support gperftools-none, gperftools-system configurations
as per other third-party packages.
STYLE: clean up more environment variables
CONFIG: testing adios rule
* boost 1_62_0 (Sept 2016)
* CGAL 4.9 (Sept 2016)
- now has headers-only mode that could be interesting
* FFTW 3.3.5 (Jul 2016)
* openmpi 1.10.4 (Sept 2016)
- the first openmpi 2.x release is also available, but too early to switch
* paraview 5.2.0 (Nov 2016)
- builds without additional patching
STYLE: removed unneeded CMake environment variables
- Cannot test if these older reader modules actually build,
owning largely to build issues since with paraview 3.14 (Feb 2012)
and paraview 3.98 (Dec 2012) themselves.
On 64-bit systems, the system installations of boost, cgal are under
lib64/. The behaviour for a ThirdParty build is mostly lib/ but this
can also be changing.
Boost 1_62_0 and older build into 'lib/'.
CGAL-4.9 builds into 'lib64/', older versions into 'lib/'.
Future-proof things by using lib$WM_COMPILER_LIB_ARCH for boost and
cgal build rules, and forcing these as build targets in the ThirdParty
makeCGAL as well.
--
STYLE: check for boost/version.hpp, CGAL/version.h instead their directories
- On the first call, ParaView_DIR is unset and thus the clean-path
fails with the warning "ParaView_DIR: Undefined variable."
This looks messy, but is of no _major_ consequence since paraview
doesn't need to be removed anyhow. The only slight risk is that the
path to a third-party cmake might not be cleaned.
- Patch as per Bruno's suggestion.
- instead we use the CGAL settings directly since they have the
same option of (version | system | none)
- may wish to review this again in the future.
The change from C++0x to C++11 allows all of C++11 functionality to be
used in OpenFOAM, in particular constructor delegation which avoids code
duplication or constructor helper functions. However, this also means a
change to the minimum gcc version supported which is now 4.7 rather than
4.5.
Note that gcc-4.7 does not support the entire C++11 standard but does
support all of the functionality currently needed for further OpenFOAM
development. The minimum gcc-version which supports the entire C++11
standard is 4.8 which is now the recommended minimum gcc version.
- export/setenv WM_COMPILER_TYPE as suggested by Mattijs.
- for overall consistency, don't carp about an unset WM_COMPILER_TYPE,
since this would only be on the first instance (prior to the
export/setenv) and would be confusing about why/when this message
may occur.
- reduce clutter: only use (system|ThirdParty) for WM_COMPILER_TYPE.
Drop the old 'OpenFOAM' setting for WM_COMPILER_TYPE, which was
transitional in early 2011.
- make the error messages more meaningful
with the more general and flexible 'postProcess' utility and '-postProcess' solver option
Rationale
---------
Both the 'postProcess' utility and '-postProcess' solver option use the
same extensive set of functionObjects available for data-processing
during the run avoiding the substantial code duplication necessary for
the 'foamCalc' and 'postCalc' utilities and simplifying maintenance.
Additionally consistency is guaranteed between solver data processing
and post-processing.
The functionObjects have been substantially re-written and generalized
to simplify development and encourage contribution.
Configuration
-------------
An extensive set of simple functionObject configuration files are
provided in
OpenFOAM-dev/etc/caseDicts/postProcessing
and more will be added in the future. These can either be copied into
'<case>/system' directory and included into the 'controlDict.functions'
sub-dictionary or included directly from 'etc/caseDicts/postProcessing'
using the '#includeEtc' directive or the new and more convenient
'#includeFunc' directive which searches the
'<etc>/caseDicts/postProcessing' directories for the selected
functionObject, e.g.
functions
{
#includeFunc Q
#includeFunc Lambda2
}
'#includeFunc' first searches the '<case>/system' directory in case
there is a local configuration.
Description of #includeFunc
---------------------------
Specify a functionObject dictionary file to include, expects the
functionObject name to follow (without quotes).
Search for functionObject dictionary file in
user/group/shipped directories.
The search scheme allows for version-specific and
version-independent files using the following hierarchy:
- \b user settings:
- ~/.OpenFOAM/\<VERSION\>/caseDicts/postProcessing
- ~/.OpenFOAM/caseDicts/postProcessing
- \b group (site) settings (when $WM_PROJECT_SITE is set):
- $WM_PROJECT_SITE/\<VERSION\>/caseDicts/postProcessing
- $WM_PROJECT_SITE/caseDicts/postProcessing
- \b group (site) settings (when $WM_PROJECT_SITE is not set):
- $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/site/\<VERSION\>/caseDicts/postProcessing
- $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/site/caseDicts/postProcessing
- \b other (shipped) settings:
- $WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/caseDicts/postProcessing
An example of the \c \#includeFunc directive:
\verbatim
#includeFunc <funcName>
\endverbatim
postProcess
-----------
The 'postProcess' utility and '-postProcess' solver option provide the
same set of controls to execute functionObjects after the run either by
reading a specified set of fields to process in the case of
'postProcess' or by reading all fields and models required to start the
run in the case of '-postProcess' for each selected time:
postProcess -help
Usage: postProcess [OPTIONS]
options:
-case <dir> specify alternate case directory, default is the cwd
-constant include the 'constant/' dir in the times list
-dict <file> read control dictionary from specified location
-field <name> specify the name of the field to be processed, e.g. U
-fields <list> specify a list of fields to be processed, e.g. '(U T p)' -
regular expressions not currently supported
-func <name> specify the name of the functionObject to execute, e.g. Q
-funcs <list> specify the names of the functionObjects to execute, e.g.
'(Q div(U))'
-latestTime select the latest time
-newTimes select the new times
-noFunctionObjects
do not execute functionObjects
-noZero exclude the '0/' dir from the times list, has precedence
over the -withZero option
-parallel run in parallel
-region <name> specify alternative mesh region
-roots <(dir1 .. dirN)>
slave root directories for distributed running
-time <ranges> comma-separated time ranges - eg, ':10,20,40:70,1000:'
-srcDoc display source code in browser
-doc display application documentation in browser
-help print the usage
pimpleFoam -postProcess -help
Usage: pimpleFoam [OPTIONS]
options:
-case <dir> specify alternate case directory, default is the cwd
-constant include the 'constant/' dir in the times list
-dict <file> read control dictionary from specified location
-field <name> specify the name of the field to be processed, e.g. U
-fields <list> specify a list of fields to be processed, e.g. '(U T p)' -
regular expressions not currently supported
-func <name> specify the name of the functionObject to execute, e.g. Q
-funcs <list> specify the names of the functionObjects to execute, e.g.
'(Q div(U))'
-latestTime select the latest time
-newTimes select the new times
-noFunctionObjects
do not execute functionObjects
-noZero exclude the '0/' dir from the times list, has precedence
over the -withZero option
-parallel run in parallel
-postProcess Execute functionObjects only
-region <name> specify alternative mesh region
-roots <(dir1 .. dirN)>
slave root directories for distributed running
-time <ranges> comma-separated time ranges - eg, ':10,20,40:70,1000:'
-srcDoc display source code in browser
-doc display application documentation in browser
-help print the usage
The functionObjects to execute may be specified on the command-line
using the '-func' option for a single functionObject or '-funcs' for a
list, e.g.
postProcess -func Q
postProcess -funcs '(div(U) div(phi))'
In the case of 'Q' the default field to process is 'U' which is
specified in and read from the configuration file but this may be
overridden thus:
postProcess -func 'Q(Ua)'
as is done in the example above to calculate the two forms of the divergence of
the velocity field. Additional fields which the functionObjects may depend on
can be specified using the '-field' or '-fields' options.
The 'postProcess' utility can only be used to execute functionObjects which
process fields present in the time directories. However, functionObjects which
depend on fields obtained from models, e.g. properties derived from turbulence
models can be executed using the '-postProcess' of the appropriate solver, e.g.
pisoFoam -postProcess -func PecletNo
or
sonicFoam -postProcess -func MachNo
In this case all required fields will have already been read so the '-field' or
'-fields' options are not be needed.
Henry G. Weller
CFD Direct Ltd.
- move unset mpi buffer size from config.csh/settings -> config.csh/mpi
- wmUNSET now also unalias wmREFRESH
Note: unsetenv WM_COMPILER_TYPE in csh variant?
- drop reference to paraview-3 in config files.
Cannot say anything definite about support for versions
this old (2012)
- replace with an alternative workaround.
Unset the _foamAddLib function prior to sourcing config.sh/CGAL:
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH will not be adjusted.
- cgal_version/boost_version variables will be retained.
Note: for ThirdParty builds, it is important that the boost and CGAL
paths are added into LD_LIBRARY_PATH even if before they are created.
This ensures that the OpenFOAM environment is functional after the
build.
The '*-none' and '*-system' specifications can still be used to avoid
setting them at all.
- not previously possible to configure a third-party gcc
with system gmp/mpfr/mpc.
This makes it easier to switch between compilers for testing.
- use system libraries by default
etc/config.sh and etc/config.csh
This structure is more convenient to add support for other shells, e.g. zsh, fish etc.
Resolves feature request to simplify support for other shells in
http://www.openfoam.org/mantisbt/view.php?id=1232