OpenaFoam 1.6 on MacOs X 10.6
 

Hi;
I know this topic has been discussed many times before but I still got no idea about how to install OpenFoam on a mac though I successfully installed it on linux. I found this:
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Ho...enFOAM_v16_Mac

that's divided into 8 steps:

OK

What should I download from there? Couldn't I just download the files from the official website?

OK

what do these mean?

OK

Can you help me?

Thank you guys!

Lorenzo

On the official download page you find a description how to download the git-version and what the benefits of it are

Different people use different compilers (official Apple-compiler, the one from MacPorts, ...). You'll have to modify that script to suite the one you use

I found this:
http://www.ifdmavt.ethz.ch/education...foam/of-macosx

what do you think?

I had success with that, but have moved onto openfoam-extend or 1.6.x.

Is there somewhere a compiled version of open foam 1.6 for mac?

mac OS X compiled instructions at :
 

http://www.ifdmavt.ethz.ch/education...foam/of-macosx

But I'm having trouble with setup_foam. My system still thinks its text even after renaming it.

What is the response when you type in setup_foam?

Error message trying to run setup foam
 

At first I got "command not found". After using Chmod 777 on Setup foam it doesn't give me an error message but doesn't appear to do anything either! Ok, so maybe it worked, but I can't find any new directories that I was expecting. I got the disk image. That looks just fine. Can you help me?

With the disk image mounted, ideally, there should be a short cut in the ~/OpenFOAM directory that links to /Volumes/OpenFOAM-1.5/

Does this sound familiar?

--Sunny

OpenFoam on the Mac - mounting binary images
 

Sunny,

No such mounting has taken place as far as I can tell. Still have the images and setup_foam executable under OpenFOAM, but nothing else.

This command that Wilder wrote, do I need to modify it in some way?

test -f ~/.bash_profile && cp ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile.bak_setup_foam_$(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
echo ". ~/OpenFOAM/images/setup_foam" >> ~/.bash_profile

It runs without error message. Also, after executing setup_foam, there is no message or any indication that it works.

Do I need to set up a case sensitive partition? I don't see the need for that since I have a disk image of the binaries.

Kenny

Hi Kenny,
Just to make sure, are the image and set_up files located in the directory, ~/OpenFOAM/images/

Sunny

OpenFoam on the Mac - mounting binary images
 

Yes they are under ~OpenFOAM/images/

So maybe there is a problem with the setup_file. I will list the setup_foam file's contents below:

# INSTRUCTIONS:
#
# - Save this file to ~/OpenFOAM/images/setup_foam (if you choose a different
# place, adjust the follwing instructions accordingly)
#
# - Adapt the lines in between the markers #### CONFIG #### and #### END CONFIG ####
# to your setup.
#
# - Save and close the file.
#
# - Issue the following command:
#
# test -f ~/.bash_profile && cp ~/.bash_profile ~/.bash_profile.bak_setup_foam_$(date '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
# echo ". ~/OpenFOAM/images/setup_foam" >> ~/.bash_profile
#
# - Close and re-open Terminal.app
#
# - Every time you first want to use OpenFOAM (i.e. every time you open a new shell
# window or tab) issue the following command:
#
# setup_foam
#
# - And now you should be ready to use OpenFOAM.
#

# Copyright 2008 Michael Wild <wild@ifd.mavt.ethz.ch>

function setup_foam {

### CONFIG ###

# The OpenFOAM version you want to use
OFVERSION=1.5
# Path to the OpenFOAM disk image file. The $OFVERSION variable will be replaced
# with above value. loginuser will be replaced with your short username.
OFIMAGE=~/OpenFOAM/images/OpenFOAM-1.5-MacOSX-10.5-intel.dmg
# Path to the user's own disk image.
OFUSERIMAGE=~/OpenFOAM/images/fewelk-1.5.sparseimage

### END CONFIG ###

function mnt_of_image() {
[ ! -d ~/OpenFOAM ] || mkdir -p ~/OpenFOAM
hdiutil attach -mountroot ~/OpenFOAM $1
}

if [ ! -f $OFIMAGE ]; then
echo "Error: the OpenFOAM disk-image $OFIMAGE does not exist" >&2
return 1
fi

if [ ! -f $OFUSERIMAGE ]; then
echo "Creating user disk-image $OFUSERIMAGE"
mkdir -p `dirname $OFUSERIMAGE`
hdiutil create -size 1t -type SPARSE -fs HFSX -volname "${LOGNAME}-1.5" $OFUSERIMAGE
fi

if [ ! -d ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-$OFVERSION ]; then
mnt_of_image $OFIMAGE
fi
if [ ! -d ~/OpenFOAM/$LOGNAME-$OFVERSION ]; then
mnt_of_image $OFUSERIMAGE
fi

. ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-$OFVERSION/etc/bashrc

# do some house-keeping
unset OFVERSION
unset OFIMAGE
unset OFUSERIMAGE

# tell paraFoam where to find ParaView
FOAM_PV3_APP="/Applications/ParaView 3.7.0.app"
export FOAM_PV3_APP

}


Perhaps I need to replace the variables with explicit paths. I have no other ideas.

Thanks,
Kenny

What does your ~/.bash_profile look like?

There should be a line that reads:
. ~/OpenFOAM/images/setup_foam


This might be of no consequence, but I think you should try to download the setup_foam file again I remember running into issues when making the slightest of modifications.

Sunny

OpenFoam on the Mac - mounting binary images
 

Good suggestion. I'll try that.

Thanks,
Ken