[Dreoasteh]

Hi,

I installed OpenFOAM-2.4 on my workstation a while back and now that I need to use the pimpleFoam solver I've realised that not all solvers and utilities were compiled successfully.

The output of foamSystemCheck is gives me a PASS. After my initial installation the foamInstallationTest provides this output.

Checking basic setup...
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Shell:              bash
OS:                 Linux version 4.9.0-8-amd64
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Checking main OpenFOAM env variables...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory                Valid      Crit
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$WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR /scratch/marrs/OpenFOAM                  yes       yes
$WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR /home/mech/marrs/OpenFOAM/marrs-2.4.0    yes       no
$WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR  /scratch/marrs/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-2.4.0  yes       yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking the OpenFOAM env variables set on the PATH...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory                Valid Path Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$WM_PROJECT_DIR      /scratch/marrs/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0   yes  yes  yes

$FOAM_APPBIN         ...-2.4.0/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/bin  yes  yes  yes
$FOAM_SITE_APPBIN    .../2.4.0/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/bin  no        no
$FOAM_USER_APPBIN    ...-2.4.0/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/bin  yes  yes  no
$WM_DIR              .../marrs/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/wmake  yes  yes  yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Checking the OpenFOAM env variables set on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Environment_variable Set_to_file_or_directory                Valid Path Crit
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
$FOAM_LIBBIN         ...-2.4.0/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/lib  yes  yes  yes
$FOAM_SITE_LIBBIN    .../2.4.0/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/lib  no        no
$FOAM_USER_LIBBIN    ...-2.4.0/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/lib  yes  yes  no
$MPI_ARCH_PATH       /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openmpi        yes  yes  yes
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Third party software
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Software Version   Location 
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flex     2.6.1     /usr/bin/flex                                            
gcc      6.3.0     /usr/bin/gcc                                             
g++      6.3.0     /usr/bin/g++                                             
gzip     1.6       /bin/gzip                                                
tar      1.29      /bin/tar                                                 
icoFoam  2.4.0     ...M/OpenFOAM-2.4.0/platforms/linux64GccDPOpt/bin/icoFoam
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Summary
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Base configuration ok.
Critical systems ok.

Done

The log of my ./Allwmake can be found here.

To shorten things up, I've looked at what the installation tells me it cannot find. I believe these are the ones giving problems in, for instance, the compilation of pimpleFOAM. The output of grep "cannot find" log.make | sort -u is:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcoalCombustion
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lconversion
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfieldFunctionObjects
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lfvOptions
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llagrangianIntermediate
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llagrangianSpray
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llagrangianTurbulence
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llagrangianTurbulentSubModels
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsampling
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lutilityFunctionObjects

Any ideas on how to go about solving this issue?

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: The main problem is that GCC 6 is not supported for OpenFOAM 2.4. You should use GCC 5 instead.

I haven't written/tested instructions for building OpenFOAM 2.4 on the more recent Ubuntu/Debian versions, but you should be able to roughly follow the same instructions provided for OpenFOAM 2.3.1 and Ubuntu 18.04 here: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...u#Ubuntu_18.04 - there you will find step-by-step instructions on how to build with GCC 5. Since it's Ubuntu, it should essentially be the same for Debian.

[Dreoasteh]

Hi Bruno,


Thanks for the insight but unluckily this issue is happening on a workstation in my university, so I have no root access. I have tried to install the g++5 compiler locally but it's a damn mess.

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: I don't have time to go over the steps on how you can build OpenFOAM 2.4.0 with a custom GCC build, so my best suggestion is that you install Debian 9.5 within a virtual machine, build OpenFOAM within it and then transfer the OpenFOAM installation folders into the workstation.

[aerospaceman]

Originally Posted by wyldckat

Quick answer: I don't have time to go over the steps on how you can build OpenFOAM 2.4.0 with a custom GCC build, so my best suggestion is that you install Debian 9.5 within a virtual machine, build OpenFOAM within it and then transfer the OpenFOAM installation folders into the workstation.

I am having a similar issue where I'm trying to compile OF2.4.0 on Debian 10. The available gcc version is 8.3. AFAIK, the only way to get gcc version 5 is compiling from source. I tried a couple of routes but that seems to be very difficult.

Would it be possible to kindly specify which installation folders to copy over from 9.5 to 10?

Thanks in advance!