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Setting up the build environment

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

  • boost_1_53_0.tar.gz

  •  ecFlow-4.0.8-Source.tar.gz

    Create a directory for the build:

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    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:

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  language bash
  gunzip boost_1_53_0.tar.gz gunzip ecFlow-4.0.8-Source.tar.gz tar -xf boost_1_53_0.tar tar -xf ecFlow-4.0.8-Source.tar

• You should have two directories created:

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  boost_1_53_0 ecFlow-4.0.8-Source

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

   

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  language bash
  export WK=/tmp/ecflow_build/ecFlow-4.0.8-Source export BOOST_ROOT=/tmp/ecflow_build/boost_1_53_0

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• Boost uses bjam for building the boost libs.

  bjam source is available in boost, hence we first need to build bjam itself:

   

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  language bash
  cd $BOOST_ROOT ./bootstrap.sh

   

  Now make sure bjam is accessible from $PATH

• Ecflow uses some of compiled libraries in boost. The following script will build the required lib’s, in both debug and release forms and will configure boost build according to your platform.

   

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  language bash
  cd $BOOST_ROOT $WK/build/boost_1_53_fix.sh # fix for boost, only for some platforms $WK/build/boost_build.sh # compile boost libs used by ecFlow

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