openfoam/doc/BuildIssues.md

Known Build Issues (OpenFOAM-v1906)

Intel MPI with Gcc/Clang)

Either I_MPI_ROOT (preferred) or MPI_ROOT can be used to specify the Intel-MPI installation directory path. The ThirdParty build of ptscotch uses mpiicc for Intel-MPI instead of the usual mpicc. When gcc or clang are used, it is quite likely that the I_MPI_CC environment variable also needs to be set accordingly. See mpiicc -help for more information about environment variables.

VTK

If using the runTimePostProcessing to create on-the-fly images, you can simply just compile ParaView and these libraries will be used. If you elect to use a separate VTK compilation (for example for off-screen rendering), it is advisable to reuse the VTK libraries that are provided with ParaView by making an appropriate symlink prior to using makeVTK. This doesn't just reduce disk-space, but works much better than using the VTK tar file.

Using runTimePostProcessing with the plain VTK libraries does generally work, but may not exit cleanly:

symbol lookup error: .../linux64Gcc/VTK-7.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonExecutionModel-7.1.so.1:
undefined symbol: _ZN33vtkFilteringInformationKeyManager13ClassFinalizeEv

symbol lookup error: .../linux64Gcc/VTK-7.1.0/lib/libvtkCommonDataModel-7.1.so.1:
undefined symbol: _ZN49vtkInformationQuadratureSchemeDefinitionVectorKeyD1Ev

This error appears to be suppressed if VTK is compiled with a Debug build-type.

Building on older systems

If the system gcc is too old for building OpenFOAM, a third-party gcc or clang/llvm installation can be used. If building clang/llvm, note that there are also minimum gcc/g++ requirements as listed in the detailed build guide.

If your system compiler is too old to build the minimum required gcc or clang/llvm, it is just simply too old.

ThirdParty clang without gmp/mpfr

If using ThirdParty clang without gmp/mpfr, the ThirdParty makeCGAL script will need to be run manually and specify that there is no gmp/mpfr. Eg,

cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR
./makeCGAL gmp-none mpfr-none

Subequent compilation with Allwmake will now run largely without any problems, except that the components linking against CGAL (foamyMesh and surfaceBooleanFeatures) will also try to link against a nonexistent mpfr library. As a workaround, the link-dependency can be removed in wmake/rules/General/CGAL :

CGAL_LIBS = \
    -L$(BOOST_ARCH_PATH)/lib \
    -L$(BOOST_ARCH_PATH)/lib$(WM_COMPILER_LIB_ARCH) \
    -L$(CGAL_ARCH_PATH)/lib \
    -L$(CGAL_ARCH_PATH)/lib$(WM_COMPILER_LIB_ARCH) \
    -lCGAL

A robuster solution is still being sought.

Building with spack

If you are building with spack, note that the depends_on for paraview resolves poorly. The +qt dependency (for building the reader module) may need to be specified as a preference by including the following in your ~/.spack/packages.yaml file:

packages:
    paraview:
        variants: +qt

It appears that spack will otherwise ignore any paraview+qt version and attempt to install a paraview~qt version instead.

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