It is recommended that you set up and build Spheral in a separate directory. For example:
cd ..
mkdir SPHERAL
cd SPHERAL
Spheral is hosted on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/spheral/) and is managed with Mercurial (http://mercurial.selenic.com/).
Get spheral (read only, recommended):
hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/spheral/code
Or (read-write):
hg clone ssh://username@hg.code.sf.net/p/spheral/code
Config spheral:
cd code/src
./boot
./configure --prefix=/path/to/SPHERAL --with-opt=2 --without-opensubdiv
Or, with ANEOS support (BYOA):
cd code/src
./boot
./configure --prefix=/path/to/SPHERAL --with-opt=2 --with-aneos --with-aneos-link="-L/path/to/your/ANEOS -lmaneos"
Build spheral:
cd code/src
make
If you are running GNU make (check with make --version) on a multi core machine,
you can speed things up a bit:
cd code/src
make -j 2
For more config and build options, see the not-quite-up-to-date config manual:
cd code/doc
pdflatex Building.tex
Test spheral (not all tests will pass):
cd code/tests
../../bin/ats -e ../../bin/python integration.ats
Update spheral:
cd code
hg pull
hg update
It is recommended that you run your simulations in a separate directory, and keep the spheral directory clean.
IMPORTANT: Run your scripts using the python interpreter provided by spheral, not your system's default python. You can set up an alias, e.g.:
alias spy '/path/to/SPHERAL/bin/python'