gmsh-fpm

Adds the Gmsh finite element mesh generator library to the Fortran Package Manager (fpm).

This repository automatically downloads the Gmsh API every hour from the upstream repo https://gitlab.onelab.info/gmsh/gmsh.git. Releases are automatically authored based on the upstream repository.

Features

The repository provides:

• Access to the Fortran F2018 API of Gmsh
• Examples of how to use the Fortran API
• A Fortran compiled executable for Gmsh itself

Usage

To use gmsh-fpm within your fpm project, add the following to your fpm.toml file:

Pin to a specific version (Recommended):

[dependencies]
gmsh = { git="https://github.com/gnikit/gmsh-fpm.git", tag = "4.12.2" }

or live at head:

[dependencies]
gmsh = { git="https://github.com/gnikit/gmsh-fpm.git" }

Build

To build the gmsh executable and all the examples, run:

fpm build --link-flag "-L/path/to/gmsh/lib"

or by setting the FPM_LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/gmsh-sdk/lib environment variable.

To run any of the examples or the Gmsh executable itself, you need to add the lib directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. You can do that only for fpm via:

export FPM_LDFLAGS="-L/path/to/gmsh/lib -Wl,-rpath,/path/to/gmsh/lib"
fpm run

Running the examples

With FPM_LDFLAGS defined as above, normally one can run the examples in the usual way:

fpm run --example t1

If the example requires input files, one will need to change to the example directory and run the executable from there:

fpm run --example t13 --runner cp -- example/fortran/; pushd example/fortran/; ./t13; rm t13; popd

For the fpm feature request that would simplify the above command see Issue #410.

Requirements

• libgmsh.so or libgmsh.a, see Installing Gmsh
• A Fortran compiler with F2018 support, Compiler section

Installing Gmsh

This fpm package requires libgmsh to be already installed on your system. You can download relevant Software Development Kit (SDK) from the Gmsh website.

❗ Important	Download the same Gmsh SDK version as the one used in gmsh-fpm

For building Gmsh from source, instead of downloading an SDK, checkout the Gmsh repository or source distributions and follow the relevant instructions.

Compiler

The API uses optional arguments in C interoperable procedures, a feature available in the F2018 standard. The following Fortran compilers are known to work:

Vendor	Compiler
GNU	gfortran
Intel	ifort, ifx
NAG	nagfor