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Bruno Santos edited this page Mar 4, 2018 · 1 revision

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This wiki page provides information on how to download and build cfMesh with blueCFD-Core 2016 and 2017.

Please keep in mind that our port of cfMesh must be used in order to properly compile with blueCFD-Core, due to several changes that were done when porting OpenFOAM to Windows.

For any problems compiling cfMesh with blueCFD-Core, please report it here: https://github.com/blueCFD/Core/issues

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Building with blueCFD-Core 2016

WARNING: You cannot build cfMesh with blueCFD-Core 2016-1 due to a linking bug in the GCC stack that came with MSys2. You must use blueCFD-Core 2016-2.

Follow these steps to download and build cfMesh with blueCFD-Core 2016-2:

  1. Start the blueCFD-Core terminal.

  2. Run the following command, to switch to the default OpenFOAM-assigned user folder:

    user

  3. Download the source code of our port for cfMesh by running:

    git clone https://github.com/blueCFD/cfMesh.git -b blueCFD-Core-2016

  4. Then go into the downloaded source code folder by running:

    cd cfMesh

  5. Choose to use all cores in your machine to build cfMesh, although it might need a lot of RAM (roughly 1.5 GB per core):

    wmMC

  6. Build cfMesh by running:

    ./Allwmake > log.make 2>&1
    • It takes around 20 minutes to build with 4 cores on an i5-6600.

  7. Run it again, to get a summary of the build:

    ./Allwmake

  8. If all goes well, it should show the following output:

    '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/lib/libmeshLibrary.dll' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/tetMesh.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/cartesian2DMesh.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/pMesh.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/cartesianMesh.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/copySurfaceParts.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/FLMAToSurface.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/FMSToSurface.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/extrudeEdgesInto2DSurface.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/checkSurfaceMesh.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/FMSToVTK.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/importSurfaceAsSubset.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/improveMeshQuality.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/generateBoundaryLayers.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/mergeSurfacePatches.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/meshToFPMA.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/improveSymmetryPlanes.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/removeSurfaceFacets.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/scaleSurfaceMesh.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/subsetToPatch.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/patchesToSubsets.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/scaleMesh.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/surfaceToFMS.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/preparePar.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/surfaceFeatureEdges.exe' is up to date.
make[1]: '/home/ofuser/blueCFD/ofuser-of4/platforms/mingw_w64GccDPInt32Opt/bin/surfaceGenerateBoundingBox.exe' is up to date.
    1. If your run does not show an output similar to the above, then please run:
    gzip < log.make > log.make.gz
    1. Then create a new report here: https://github.com/blueCFD/Core/issues - and attach the file log.make.gz to your report.

Building with blueCFD-Core 2017

Follow these steps to download and build cfMesh with blueCFD-Core 2017:

  1. Start the blueCFD-Core terminal.

  2. Run the following command, to switch to the default OpenFOAM-assigned user folder:

    user

  3. Download the source code of our port for cfMesh by running:

    git clone https://github.com/blueCFD/cfMesh.git -b blueCFD-Core-2017

  4. Then go into the downloaded source code folder by running:

    cd cfMesh

  5. Optional: Choose to use all cores in your machine to build cfMesh, although it might need a lot of RAM (roughly 2GB per core):

    wmMC

  6. Build cfMesh by running:

    ./Allwmake > log.make 2>&1
    • It takes around 7 minutes to build with 4 cores on an i5-6600.

  7. Run it again, to get a summary of the build:

    ./Allwmake

  8. If all goes well, it should show the following output:

    wmake libso meshLibrary
wmake executables
wmake cartesian2DMesh
wmake cartesianMesh
wmake pMesh
wmake tetMesh
wmake utilities
wmake checkSurfaceMesh
wmake copySurfaceParts
wmake extrudeEdgesInto2DSurface
wmake FLMAToSurface
wmake FMSToSurface
wmake FMSToVTK
wmake generateBoundaryLayers
wmake importSurfaceAsSubset
wmake improveMeshQuality
wmake improveSymmetryPlanes
wmake mergeSurfacePatches
wmake meshToFPMA
wmake patchesToSubsets
wmake preparePar
wmake removeSurfaceFacets
wmake scaleMesh
wmake scaleSurfaceMesh
wmake subsetToPatch
wmake surfaceFeatureEdges
wmake surfaceGenerateBoundingBox
wmake surfaceToFMS
    1. If your run does not show an output similar to the above, then please run:
    gzip < log.make > log.make.gz
    1. Then create a new report here: https://github.com/blueCFD/Core/issues - and attach the file log.make.gz to your report.

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