[Deep1994]

I have installed the foamextend-4.0 and also downloaded solids4Foam. However, I have not been able to install solids4Foam properly, and this has resulted in errors every time (although foamextend-4.0 is installed correctly). I get errors.

Could you please tell me where to download the solids4Foam release (in which directory I mean - ~/.. OR ~/foam/.. OR ~/foam/foamextend-4.0/..) and then how to proceed with the installation and the proper way to solve FSI problems? If there is any detailed documentation on that, it would be great of you if you could kindly share the same! Thank you in advance!

[bigphil]

Hi,

Can you post the full log file from Allwmake here? i.e. run the following command in the solids4foam-release directory and upload log.Allwmake when it is done:

$> ./Allwmake &> log.Allwmake

Philip

[Deep1994]

Dear Philip,

I have done as you suggested:*./Allwmake &> log.Allwmake

And then I types:*$> solids4Foam -help

And I see that it gives this output:

Usage: solids4Foam [-DebugSwitches key1=val1,key2=val2,...] [-DimensionedConstants key1=val1,key2=val2,...] [-InfoSwitcheskey1=val1,key2=val2,...] [-OptimisationSwitcheskey1=val1,key2=val2,...] [-Tolerances key1=val1,key2=val2,...] [-case dir] [-dumpControlSwitches] [-noFunctionObjects] [-parallel][-help] [-doc] [-srcDoc]* *

[bigphil]

If the solids4Foam command works (which is does from the output you have shown) then solids4foam is installed. Next step is to follow one of the tutorials.

Philip

[Deep1994]

Sure, thanks Philip.

[ugurcan]

Dear all,

I am trying to compile solids4foam with foam-extend 4.1 but I have a problem. I have compiled solids4foam successfully in version: 4.0 of foam-extend. However, errors occurred when I was trying to compile it in version 4.1 of foam-extend and compilation was interrupted.

Log file of my second try of compilation process after errors occurred is attached. How can I solve this problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

[bigphil]

Originally Posted by ugurcan

Dear all,

I am trying to compile solids4foam with foam-extend 4.1 but I have a problem. I have compiled solids4foam successfully in version: 4.0 of foam-extend. However, errors occurred when I was trying to compile it in version 4.1 of foam-extend and compilation was interrupted.

Log file of my second try of compilation process after errors occurred is attached. How can I solve this problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

Is it possible that you have run out of disk space? Or maybe you don't have write permission to /home/ugurbuntu/foam/ugurbuntu-4.1/applications/bin/linux64GccDPInt32Opt?

The compilation seems fine, but you just get an error when the binaries are installed, even though the two libraries were installed correctly.

Philip

[ugurcan]

Originally Posted by bigphil

Is it possible that you have run out of disk space? Or maybe you don't have write permission to /home/ugurbuntu/foam/ugurbuntu-4.1/applications/bin/linux64GccDPInt32Opt?

The compilation seems fine, but you just get an error when the binaries are installed, even though the two libraries were installed correctly.

Philip

Hello Philip, it is not related to disk space or permissions. I try to execute Allwclean and Allwmake again for solids4foam but it didn't work. I have installed the solids4foam with foam-extend 4.0 in the same way that I try now. Could conflict between the versions be the cause of the problem?

Uğur

[bigphil]

Hi Uğur,

Assuming you have only one version of OpenFOAM/foam sourced at any one time then it should not be a conflict between versions. Can you attached the full output from the Allwmake script? e.g. log.Allwmake from the command Allwmake &> log.Allwmake

Philip

[ugurcan]

Originally Posted by bigphil

Hi Uğur,

Assuming you have only one version of OpenFOAM/foam sourced at any one time then it should not be a conflict between versions. Can you attached the full output from the Allwmake script? e.g. log.Allwmake from the command Allwmake &> log.Allwmake

Philip

Hi Philip,

Yes, I sourced only one version (4.1). The full output from the Allwmake command is attached now.

Uğur

[ugurcan]

My installation problem of solids4foam was solved. The reason is that foam-extend 4.1 was not successfully compiled because of missing some dependencies so the compilation of solids4foam was also interrupted. There is a typo in the below wiki web-site for installation of foam-extend 4.1 on ubuntu 18.04:

https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...end-4.1/Ubuntu

The command line to install required packages is like follows:

sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential binutils-dev cmake flex \
zlib1g-dev  libncurses5-dev curl bison gnuplot gnuplot-qt gnuiplot-data \
libxt-dev rpm mercurial graphviz python python-dev python3 python3-dev

but, it should be:

sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential binutils-dev cmake flex \
zlib1g-dev  libncurses5-dev curl bison gnuplot gnuplot-qt gnuplot-data \
libxt-dev rpm mercurial graphviz python python-dev python3 python3-dev

It would be nice to make a correction. Thanks for help.

Uğur

[ajelahe74]

Hello!

I'm having some trouble installing solids4Foam. The thing is, I installed foam-extended 4.1 successfully, and then I follow the steps to compile solids4Foam... The compilation seems fine to me, but for some reason when I go "solids4Foam -help" says: Command not found.

I tried to run the punch tutorial and in the log files, and Paraview I see the process is conducted until the solids4Foam part. On screen even, seems to run fine:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| solids4Foam::convertCaseFormat start |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

foam-extend-4.1 loaded
Running cartesianMesh on /home/alejandra/foam/alejandra-4.1/run/punch
Running cartesianMesh on /home/alejandra/foam/alejandra-4.1/run/punch
Running mergeSubMeshesNew on /home/alejandra/foam/alejandra-4.1/run/punch
Running transformPoints
Running autoPatch on /home/alejandra/foam/alejandra-4.1/run/punch
Running createPatch on /home/alejandra/foam/alejandra-4.1/run/punch
Running splitPatch on /home/alejandra/foam/alejandra-4.1/run/punch
Running solids4Foam on /home/alejandra/foam/alejandra-4.1/run/punch

but then the log.solids4Foam says /home/alejandra/foam/foam-extend-4.1/bin/tools/RunFunctions: línea 57: solids4Foam: Command not found.

Here you'll find attached the log files I mention.

[dewey]

Hi, I have the next problem when I try to install solids4Foam with fe41,


/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [/home/magikarp/foam/foam-extend-4.1/wmake/Makefile:160: /home/magikarp/foam/magikarp-4.1/applications/bin/linux64GccDPInt32Opt/solids4Foam] Error 1
make: *** [/home/magikarp/foam/foam-extend-4.1/wmake/MakefileApps:39: solids4Foam] Error 2
make: Target 'application' not remade because of errors.



Do you know how to fix it?


Regards.

[bigphil]

Originally Posted by dewey

Hi, I have the next problem when I try to install solids4Foam with fe41,


/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [/home/magikarp/foam/foam-extend-4.1/wmake/Makefile:160: /home/magikarp/foam/magikarp-4.1/applications/bin/linux64GccDPInt32Opt/solids4Foam] Error 1
make: *** [/home/magikarp/foam/foam-extend-4.1/wmake/MakefileApps:39: solids4Foam] Error 2
make: Target 'application' not remade because of errors.



Do you know how to fix it?


Regards.

If you install the gfortran library it will fix the problem, e.g. on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install gfortran

This requirement allows linking to Abaqus UMAT (which are written in fortran).

I recently pushed this feature but I am now wondering if it would be better to disable it by default, since most will not have gfortran by default...

Philip

[philippconen]

Dear Philip,

taking research on Fluid-Structure-Interaction (FSI) package for my master thesis, I found your package "Solids4Foam".

First I compiled OpenFOAM V7 (Following: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...7/Ubuntu/18.04)

Following the steps mentioned in your presentation:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile...am-toolbox.pdf
(Nice work by the way!)
I got the message of missing "gfortran" package.

I installed it via:

sudo apt update 
sudo apt install gfortran

Unfortunately, I ended up with new errors (see attachments).

Also I tried to compile it in Foam-Extend-4.0, but I also get the same error like dewey:

philipp-4.0/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/solids4Foam
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgfortran
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
/home/philipp/foam/foam-extend-4.0/wmake/Makefile:159: recipe for target   '/home/philipp/foam/philipp-4.0/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/solids4Foam'  failed
make[1]: *** [/home/philipp/foam/philipp-4.0/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/solids4Foam] Error 1
/home/philipp/foam/foam-extend-4.0/wmake/MakefileApps:39: recipe for target 'solids4Foam' failed
make: *** [solids4Foam] Error 2
make: Target 'application' not remade because of errors.

Like I said, gfortran is installed. I am using Ubuntu 18.04.
Actually, I also try to get it working with Foam-Extend-4.1.
Trying out the docker solution worked for me after some fixes.

Do you or somebody else can help me out fixing the errors for the FE-4.0 or OF-V7, please?

Greetings

Philipp

[dewey]

Hi Phiilip, try to install the version of gfortran-7 with

sudo apt install gfortran-7

First clean the installation and then install it.

That works with fe41 in Ubuntu 20.04.

I hope that helps You.

[philippconen]

Dear Alberto,


first, thanks for your quick answer!


Rechecking the installed version of gfortran I figured out that everything is up-to-date.

gfortran --version
GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0

Also g++

g++ --version
g++ (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0

and gcc

gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0

match.


With cleaning the installation you mean the installation of Solids4Foam and not the whole OpenFOAM/ Foam-Extend-X.X, correct?
If so, I already did it for the options OF7 and FE4.0.



I will wait until Foam-Extend-4.1 is compiled and give you all feedback if it works.


Greetings


Philipp

[dewey]

Yes, I mean the solids4foam installation.

You are using Ubuntu 18.04 and if I don't mistake, fe40 in 18.04 uses gcc-5 g++-5, so, I think in that case you have to install gfortran-5.

In Ubuntu 20.04 the newest versión is 9, but fe41 uses 7, so that fix my problem.

Try it and if works will be nice to share.

[bigphil]

Yep I also suspect that the gcc/g++ and gfortran versions are not the same.

[philippconen]

Foam-Extend-4.1 is compiled and it seems to work now with the above mentioned versions of g++, gcc and gfortran.


Many thanks for your help!


Btw, I did not actually tried to switch g++-, gcc- and gfortran-versions to get Foam-Extend-4.0 running.