How to compile MONICA (Linux)

Linux / Debian 9 ('stretch')

Prequisites

• python 3.6+

• cmake

• git

• curl

• unzip

• tar

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install build-essential
  sudo apt-get install python-dev
  sudo apt-get install curl unzip tar
  sudo apt-get install git
  sudo apt-get install cmake
  sudo apt-get install libtool
  sudo apt-get install autoconf

• create a working folder (e.g ~/zalf-rpm)

  mkdir zalf-rpm
  cd zalf-rpm

• checkout monica and dependencies

  git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/zalf-rpm/monica.git
  git clone https://github.com/zalf-rpm/monica-parameters.git

• checkout vcpkg for dependent libs, but use the tagged version found in the vcpkg_tag.txt file in the root of the MONICA repository

  git clone -b 2025.10.17 https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git

• build vcpkg

  cd vcpkg
  ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

• build zmq, Cap’n Proto, sodium, toml++ libs

  ./vcpkg install zeromq:x64-linux
  ./vcpkg install capnproto:x64-linux
  ./vcpkg install libsodium:x64-linux
  ./vcpkg install tomlplusplus:x64-linux

• create monica cmake folder and build monica

  cd ~/zalf-rpm/monica
  sh create_cmake_release.sh
  cd _cmake_release
  make