[hjasak]

Dear All,

A joint development effort between Alstom Power and Wikki has resulted in a unified source tree for the upcoming foam-extend-3.2 release. The idea is to produce a unified development line that compiles on all platforms without changes, renaming, hacking, patches or short-cuts.

This has been achieved by introducing porting changes in the code, creating a native interface for the Windows OS in OSspecific/MSWindows and creating a proper build environment for all platforms.

The next release is now under testing, and under command of the Release Manager (Francois, thank you!). We are keen to have the source build across all platforms and receive reports on success or failure.

With the release, we will provide the usual rpm linux packages, and Mac OS X and Windows source and binary releases.

On Windows, we use MinGW, gcc-4.8.2 compiler and wmake build system, consistent with all other platforms. Source code support is complete and the release works fine in parallel.

Some basic info/instructions:
* Linux builds natively, as before. Source etc/bashrc and execute Allwmake.firstinstall
* Mac OS X: please switch to scotch600 in etc/bashrc. Source etc/bashrc and execute Allwmake.firstinstall
* Windows: prepare build environment by following README.txt in doc/buildInstructions/Windows. Once this is in place, source etc/bashrc.mingw and execute Allwmake.mingw

We have also tested binary release of the Windows compilation (libs and exe only), which works fine.

If you wish to try building the source RIGHT NOW, please check out the source:

git clone --branch nextRelease git://git.code.sf.net/p/openfoam-extend/foam-extend-3.1

and report on your experience. If you have suggestions for changes or how to facilitate the build, please drop me a line.

Hrvoje Jasak, Wikki