A detailed guide to installing DOLFIN

From The FEniCS project

This aims to be a more complete, fully from source, guide to installing DOLFIN and its dependencies.

It is designed for slightly older GNU/Linux systems, where even the presence of a recent Python, for instance, is not guaranteed. It has been tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. You can also fetch this information in a more ready-to-use manner in the form of a bash script, from [1].

Requirements

libtool, libxml2, pkg-config, LAPACK and BLAS.

Basic notes

The build instructions on this page incorporate the use of the following environment variables:

# Where do you want the downloaded source files to go?
DOWNLOAD_PATH=$HOME/downloads/src
# Where do you want the compiled software installed?
INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/builds
# Where are your LAPACK and BLAS libraries?
LAPACKANDBLAS=/usr/lib64
# Where are your X11 libraries?
X11LIB=/usr/X11R6/lib64
# What sort of Petsc build do you need?
PETSC_ARCH=linux-gnu-cxx-debug
# Other interesting environment variables
PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/bin:$PATH
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/lib/pkgconfig
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/lib

You also need to create the following directories

mkdir -p $DOWNLOAD_PATH/fenics
mkdir -p $INSTALL_PATH

Building the dependencies

Building Python 2.4

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.4.4/Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2
tar -xjf Python-2.4.4.tar.bz2
cd Python-2.4.4
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH
make
make install

PYTHON_VERSION=2.4
PYTHON_ROOT=$INSTALL_PATH
PYTHON_LIB_PATH=$INSTALL_PATH/lib/python2.4/config
PYTHON_INCLUDES=$INSTALL_PATH/include/python2.4

Building Mercurial 0.9.3

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/release/mercurial-0.9.3.tar.gz
tar -xzf mercurial-0.9.3.tar.gz
cd mercurial-0.9.3
python setup.py install

Building NumPy 1.0.1

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/numpy/numpy-1.0.1.tar.gz
tar -xzf numpy-1.0.1.tar.gz
cd numpy-1.0.1
echo "[atlas]" > site.cfg
echo "library_dirs = $LAPACKANDBLAS" >> site.cfg
echo "atlas_libs = lapack, blas" >> site.cfg
python setup.py install

Building Boost 1.33.1 (with Boost Jam 3.1.13)

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/boost/boost-jam-3.1.13.tgz
tar -xzf boost-jam-3.1.13.tgz
cd boost-jam-3.1.13
./build.sh gcc
cp bin.linux/bjam $INSTALL_PATH/bin/
cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/boost/boost_1_33_1.tar.bz2
tar -xjf boost_1_33_1.tar.bz2
cd boost_1_33_1
bjam --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH install

Building Swig 1.3.31

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/swig/swig-1.3.31.tar.gz
tar -xzf swig-1.3.31.tar.gz
cd swig-1.3.31
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH
make
make install

make check-python-examples
make check-python-test-suite

Building MPICH2 1.0.5p2

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/downloads/mpich2-1.0.5p2.tar.gz
tar -xzf mpich2-1.0.5p2.tar.gz
cd mpich2-1.0.5p2
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH
make
make install

Building PETSc 2.3.2-p8

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/release-snapshots/petsc-2.3.2-p8.tar.gz
tar -xzf petsc-2.3.2-p8.tar.gz
cd petsc-2.3.2-p8
export PETSC_DIR=$PWD
./config/configure.py --with-mpi-dir=$INSTALL_PATH --with-clanguage=cxx --download-hypre=yes --enable-hypre=1 --download-umfpack=yes --enable-umfpack=1
make all
make test
  

Building SLEPc 2.3.2

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://www.grycap.upv.es/slepc/download/distrib/slepc-2.3.2.tgz
tar -xzf slepc-2.3.2.tgz
cd slepc-2.3.2
export SLEPC_DIR=$PWD
export PETSC_DIR=$DOWNLOAD_PATH/petsc-2.3.2-p8
./config/configure.py
make all
make test

Building gts 0.7.6

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gts/gts-0.7.6.tar.gz
tar -xzf gts-0.7.6.tar.gz
cd gts-0.7.6
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH
make
make install

Building CLN 1.1.13

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget http://www.ginac.de/CLN/cln-1.1.13.tar.bz2
tar -xjf cln-1.1.13.tar.bz2
cd cln-1.1.13
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH
make
make install

Building GiNaC 1.3.7

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH
wget ftp://ftpthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/pub/GiNaC/ginac-1.3.7.tar.bz2
tar -xjf ginac-1.3.7.tar.bz2
cd ginac-1.3.7
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH
make
make install

Building portions of the FEniCS project

Building FIAT

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH/fenics
hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/fiat
cd fiat
python setup.py install

Building FErari

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH/fenics
hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/ferari
cd ferari
python setup.py install

Building UFC

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH/fenics
hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/ufc
cd ufc
python setup.py install --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH

Building FFC

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH/fenics
hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/ffc
cd ffc
python setup.py install

Building syfi

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH/fenics
hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/syfi
cd syfi/
./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH

Building DOLFIN

cd $DOWNLOAD_PATH/fenics
hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/dolfin
cd dolfin
CPPFLAGS="-I$PETSC_DIR/externalpackages/UMFPACKv4.3/AMD/Include" ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_PATH --enable-static --enable-optimization --enable-petsc --enable-mpi \
--with-petsc-dir=$PETSC_DIR --with-boost=$INSTALL_PATH --with-umfpack-lib=$PETSC_DIR/externalpackages/UMFPACKv4.3/$PETSC_ARCH/UMFPACK/Lib \
--with-amd-lib=$PETSC_DIR/externalpackages/UMFPACKv4.3/$PETSC_ARCH/AMD/Lib --with-umfpack-include=$PETSC_DIR/externalpackages/UMFPACKv4.3/$PETSC_ARCH/UMFPACK/Include \ 
--disable-pydolfin
make
make install
#Add the following to $INSTALL_PATH/lib/pkgconfig/dolfin.pc:
 echo "Libs: -L${libdir} -ldolfin -L$PETSC_DIR/externalpackages/UMFPACKv4.3/$PETSC_ARCH/AMD/Lib -lamd -L$PETSC_DIR/externalpackages/hypre-1.11.1b/$PETSC_ARCH/lib -lHYPRE \
-L$X11LIB -lX11  -lmpich -lmpichcxx  -L$LAPACKANDBLAS -llapack -lblas"
make demo