Installation

Installation options

• Official stable releases (http://www.oofem.org/en/download)

  • Usually 12M release cycle

  • Binary packages for Windows (AMD64 version only) and Linux (x86_64 version, Debian package)

  • Source package (requires compilation)

• Development version

  • Manual installation from OOFEM GitHub repository (https://github.com/oofem/oofem.git)

Binary package installation - Windows

• Extract downloaded zip archive (oofem_2.5_AMD64.zip) into any directory

• The extraction should create oofem_2.5_AMD64 directory

• Modify PATH variable to include oofem_2.5_AMD64/lib dir

  set PATH=C:\Users\user\Documents\oofem_2.5_AMD64\lib;%PATH%
  

• Test run

  C:\Users\user\Documents\oofem_2.5_AMD64\bin\oofem -v
  OOFEM version 2.5 (AMD64-Windows, fm;tm;sm;IML++) of Dec 30 2017 on JAJA
  Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Borek Patzak
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
  

Binary installation – Unix/Linux

You can either choose generic Linux binary or Debian package.

Linux – binary

• Extract downloaded zip archive (oofem_2.5_x86.tar.gz) .. code-block:: bash

  tr xzvf oofem_2.5_x86.tar.gz

• This creates oofem_2.5_x86_64/bin and oofem_2.5_x86_64/bin directories

• Define where to find libraries

  $ export LDD_LIBRARY_PATH=../lib:$LDD_LIBRARY_PATH
  

• Run oofem

  $ cd bin; ./oofem –v
  

Linux – Debian package

$ sudo apt install oofem_2.5_x86_64.deb

Installation from source

Requirements

• C++ compiler (g++, Visual Studio, MinGW, …)

• CMake build tools (https://cmake.org/)

• Controls software compilation process by using platform independent configuration and generate native makefiles or projects

• To generate platform makefile or project configuration, use cmake (or any user friendly based GUI, such as ccmake or cmake-gui)

Instalation from source - Linux

In the following, we assume the sources are in /home/user/oofem.src and build directory in /home/user/oofem.build

$ cd /home/user/oofem.build
$ ccmake /home/user/oofem.src
$ make

Installation from source - Windows

Requirements:

• C++ compiler (Visual Studio, MinGW)

• CMake build tools (https://cmake.org/)

Procedure:

• Clone oofem git repository

• Use cmake to generate VS solution

  

  • Select compiler

  • Set source directory

  • Set build directory

  • Generate project/solution

• Use compiler to build project targets (oofem and RUN_TESTS)