Build Notes

Notes on building Smokeview

• Install the GITrepository for FDS and Smokeview using the GIT getting started wiki.

The following steps assume that ~/FDS-SMV is the repository root where ~ is your home directory.

• On a Windows PC, install the GNU make utility - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm.

• The gnu make installer does not add an entry to the PATH variable. When you run the installer, note where the installer places the make utility executable, then add this directory path to your PATH variable.

• On a Linux or OSX system, define the shell variable, IFORT_COMPILER, in your startup files to point to the location of your Intel compiler distribution. For example if using the bash shell, add the following line to your .bashrc startup file (substituting the path to your compiler for the path given below) {{{ export IFORT_COMPILER=/opt/intel/composerxe }}}

• Smokeview requires several software libraries (such as Glut, glui etc) to implement features such as dialog boxes, rendering images or interacting with the underlying OS. To build these libraries,

  • cd to SMV/Build/LIBS/lib_platform_compiler_size where platform is win, osx or linux; compiler is intel or gcc and size is 32 or 64. (for example cd to `SMV\Build\LIBS\lib_win_intel_64 to build 64 bit windows libraries for Smokeview)
  • type the makelibs.sh or makelibs.bat command that is found there.

• There is a sub-directory under SMV/Build/smokeview for each target in the Smokeview Makefile. To build Smokeview on a Linux system, cd into the intel_linux_64 directory and type

./make_smv.sh

On a Windows system cd into the intel_win_64 directory and type

.\make_smv.bat

To build Smokeview for other platforms, cd into one of the following directories and type the .bat or .sh (depending on platform) command that is found there.

• intel_linux_64
• intel_osx_64
• intel_win_64