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• dependencies

  • python 2.7  ( Python 3.0 not tested )

    If you intend to use ecFlow Python api, You will need to install python.

    Please ensure that python is accessible on $PATH otherwise, you may need to

    customise $BOOST_ROOT/tools/build/v2/site-config.jam

    The python installation should include the development packages

  • Xlib, X11, XMotif for ecflowview . Do not use Lesstif library to compile ecflowview as a replacement for Motif. OpenMotif can be downloaded from http://www.ist.co.uk/downloads/motif_download.html

  • cmake (optional, alternative build system, see http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/cmake.html)

• ecfFlow consists of two tar files i.e. :

  • boost_1_53_0.tar.gz
  • ecflow_4_0_7.tar.gz

  Create a directory for the build:

  Code Block
  language bash
  mkdir /tmp/ecflow_build

• Copy the the two tar file into this directory, then change directory to /tmp/ecflow_build

• Un-zip then un-tar the two file files:

  Code Block
  language bash
  gunzip boost_1_53_0.tar.gz gunzip ecflow_4_0_7.tar.gz tar -xf boost_1_53_0.tar tar -xf ecflow_4_0_7.tar

• You should have three directories created:

  Code Block
  boost_1_53_0 ecflow_4_0_7 ecbuild

• Create two environment variables. These are used by some of scripts:

   

  Code Block
  language bash
  export WK=/tmp/ecflow_build/ecflow_4_0_7 export BOOST_ROOT=/tmp/ecflow_build/boost_1_53_0

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To use the ecFlow Python Api , you need to add/change PYTHONPATH . 

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/usr/local/apps/ecflow/4.0.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ecflow

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• For installation the following environment variables are required.

  ECFLOW_INSTALL_DIR         # Directory Location for client ,server and gui program's
  ECFLOW_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR  # Directory Location for ecflow python package

  The python installation can be customised, by changing Pyext/jamfile.jam and $BOOST_ROOT/tools/build/v2/site-config.jam

• We now need to build ecFlow. Currently ecflowview is only built if environment variable of name ARCH is set to linux:

  Code Block
  language bash
  cd $WK bjam variant=release

  
  
  On some systems like fedora/redhat you may run into compiler errors

  which complain about the template depth being exceeded.

  In this case compile using:

   

  Code Block
  language bash
  cd $WK bjam c++-template-depth=512 variant=release

   

  If you have a multi-core machine, you can speed up the build using:

  the -j<n> option. Where ‘n’ is an integer, of the number of cores.

   

  Code Block
  language applescript
  bjam variant=release -j4

• Once ecFlow is built it can be installed:

   

  Code Block
  language bash
  bjam variant=release install-all

   

  This will create directories:

  Code Block
  <ECFLOW_INSTALL_DIR>/bin <ECFLOW_INSTALL_DIR>/lib <ECFLOW_INSTALL_DIR>/doc <ECFLOW_INSTALL_DIR>/share <ECFLOW_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR>

  Depending on your umask setting you may need to call chmod 755 on the executables

• To use the ecFlow Python Api , you need to add/change PYTHONPATH . 

   

  Code Block
  language bash
  export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$ECFLOW_PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR

• When compiling ecflowview in a system where motif is not installed in the usual location, or where both motif and lesstif are installed, it is possible to export the environment variables MOTIF_INCLUDE and MOTIF_LIBRARY to help bjam to find the right location for include files and libraries.

  Openmotif may be retrieve from IST server and installed locally: wget http://www.ist-inc.com/motif/download/motif_files/openmotif-2.1.32-2_IST.x86_64.rpm rpm2cpio openmotif-2.1.32-2_IST.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv

  user shall then compile setting MOTIF_INCLUDE and MOTIF_LIBRARY variable.

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