The following steps assume you do not dispose of a Cantera (at least 2.4.0 install in your machine. Notice that the following will only work if you compiled Cantera locally with Sundials 2.7.0. If you already have Cantera, just create a file named Makefile.in in this same directory (same level as Makefile) and write the following contents to this file:
`
EXTERNAL := full path to your Cantera and Sundials-2.7.0 roots (must be the same).
OPTIONS := -g -O3 -std=c++11
`
If Sundials is elsewhere, you will need to edit the Makefile itself, and if you intend to do this I assume you know how to do that. If compiling from Cygwin, also add -U__STRICT_ANSI__ to OPTIONS line.
Install libopenblas-dev, libboost-dev assuming you are using Ubuntu (or their variants for your distro) and scons prior to installation. Next move to this directory and run get_cantera.sh and wait for completion. Once done, run make to generate the library.
Note: during development Cygwin is not supported. If you really need this interface for now, contact me directly so that we can manage to install it.
If you do not have Cygwin:
Cygwin install is made easy by script get_cygwin.bat. This will download locally everything you need to be available in order to compile the C++ executables. From you file navigator, just double click get_cygwin.bat and wait for installation to proceed (this will download Cygwin and all required packages, download Cantera and compile Cantera). The process lasts from 10 to 30 minutes typically, depending on your processor and internet connection.
Once the process has finished, double-click cygwin\Cygwin.bat and wait for completion. Run make and the library must compile out-of-the-box. If you have no experience with Cygwin, take a small tutorial on how to move across folders in Linux systems. Under Cygwin, your drive C: is found under /cygdrive/c and the same apply for other possible drives.
If you have Cygwin:
Open get_cygwin.bat for edition and make sure all packages listed on line 22 of this file are available in your machine. Then execute your Cygwin terminal and move to this folder. Manually run get_cantera.sh and wait for completion. Once done, run make to generate library.
You can choose to manually edit the Makefile and use -lcantera instead of -lcantera_shared. This will produce larger executables and unless you bind Sundials and OpenBLAS statically, provides no advantage except for the fact that you will not need to append your .bashrc as automatically done by get_cantera.sh. If you do not want to append your .bashrc, comment out line 20 of get_cantera.sh.