BuildFromSource.md

Building required libraries.

All libraries are built from source codes and installed in specific locations. You need to download sources first. The following versions are known to work, but you can always try out a different version.

mkdir pyORBIT
cd pyORBIT

Everything will be contained in the pyORBIT directory.

Download all required sources and extract them.

curl http://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/3.2/mpich-3.2.tar.gz | tar xvz
curl https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.12/Python-2.7.12.tgz | tar xvz
curl http://zlib.net/fossils/zlib-1.2.11.tar.gz | tar xvz
curl http://www.fftw.org/fftw-3.3.5.tar.gz | tar xvz

Build all libraries

All libraries will be installed in the local directory (pyORBIT).

1. Build Python

cd Python-2.7.12
./configure -prefix=`pwd`/..
make
make install
cd ..

2. Build ZLIB

cd zlib-1.2.11
./configure -prefix=`pwd`/..
make
make install
cd ..

3. Build MPI

cd mpich-3.2
./configure -prefix=`pwd`/.. --disable-fortran
make
make install
cd ..

4. Build FFTW (with MPI support)

cd fftw-3.3.5
./configure -prefix=`pwd`/.. --disable-fortran --enable-mpi MPICC=`pwd`/../bin/mpicc
make
make install
cd ..

Proceed with installation steps

You will need to use customEnvironment.sh instead of setupEnvironment.sh.

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