[ali]

Has anyone installed OpenFOAM on HP machines yet?

Is it difficult to port the code to an HP machine like HP ES45?

http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/es45/

[henry]

What OS?

[ali]

> uname -sr
OSF1 V5.1

[henry]

Try installing Linux on the machine, you will find porting OpenFOAM to it much easier if you do.

[ali]

I know porting to linux would be easier, but the thing is I cannot change the OS (I'm not admin). So, I better start with getting gcc running on the machine and then try to compile all the code . Any special hint on this?

[henry]

I have ported FOAM to OSF1 for customers in the past and it was a very disagreeable experience, not quite a bad as the awful HPUX but not nice. Basically there are lots of problems with the OS, not just the C++ compiler which sucks but also make, as, ld etc. and you would have to compile all those first. Expect many problems and to waste a lot of time as I did and even then you may not succeed.

When releasing OpenFOAM I decided not to support OSF1 anymore because it's a dead OS and Linux is available for those machines now and so you should upgrade (or get your admin people to upgrade) to that.

[mattijs]

Compaq must have a site/disk somewhere with lots of precompiled gnu utilities (for hpux I know the HP porting centre). So tar,ld,as,gcc,awk etc. Install all of these and make sure you have them first in your path and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

All this even before you unpack OpenFOAM.

[ali]

I guess other than gcc (which I should install gcc3.4.3 on it at least), all other commands are there, right? or ...?

% which make
/usr/bin/make
% which gmake
/usr/local/bin/gmake
% which gcc
/usr/local/bin/gcc
% which tar
/usr/bin/tar
% which as
/usr/bin/as
% which awk
/usr/bin/awk
% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/alphaev67-dec-osf5.1/3.3/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.3/configure
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.3