[agustinvo]

Hi everyone

I have been developping some libraries, and I have included the *.H file in some other elements, in order to use their content. I am moving these libraries to other computer, but since I have declared all the paths with $WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR, $FOAM_USER ... I thought I should have no problem.

But once I compile again in the 2nd computer, it gives an error, it can't make target the folder of the previous instalation. So I check the *.dep file and I get all the dependencies of the files, ie:

$(WM_PROJECT_DIR)/src/...

But, when there is a dependencie with my own libraries, instead of having

$(WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR)/src/...

I get

all_the_path_to_OF_user/src/...

So now I am wondering if there is a possibility to get the path by using the enviromental variable. You could think "clean and compile", but now it's not an option.


Do you have any idea about how to do this?


Thanks in advance!

[wyldckat]

Greetings Agustín,

The ".dep" files are generated by wmake whenever needed. The content of these files should have all paths fully expanded and no environment variables should appear in them.

I'm having trouble figuring out from your description where exactly you're using the environment variables. Can you provide an example of the files you've modified and how you've defined the environment variables? I ask this because it would make it a lot easier to diagnose the problem.

Best regards,
Bruno

[agustinvo]

Hello wyldckat,

here I attach a part of the options file:

EXE_INC = \
    -I$(LIB_SRC)/turbulenceModels \
    -I$(WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR)/src/turbulenceModels/incompressible/turbulenceModel \

and here you have the .dep file I have

derivedFvPatchFields/wallFunctions/epsilontWallFunctions/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunction/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField.dep: $(WM_PROJECT_DIR)/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/sphericalTensorFieldField.H
derivedFvPatchFields/wallFunctions/epsilontWallFunctions/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunction/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField.dep: $(WM_PROJECT_DIR)/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/sphericalTensorFieldField.C
derivedFvPatchFields/wallFunctions/epsilontWallFunctions/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunction/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField.dep: $(WM_PROJECT_DIR)/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/tensorFieldField.C
derivedFvPatchFields/wallFunctions/epsilontWallFunctions/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunction/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField.dep: $(WM_PROJECT_DIR)/src/finiteVolume/lnInclude/calculatedFvPatchFields.H
derivedFvPatchFields/wallFunctions/epsilontWallFunctions/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunction/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField.dep: /students/rm_13_14/villaortiz/OpenFOAM/villaortiz-2.3.1/src/turbulenceModels/incompressible/turbulenceModel/turbulenceThermalModel.H
derivedFvPatchFields/wallFunctions/epsilontWallFunctions/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunction/epsilontLowReManservisiWallFunctionFvPatchScalarField.dep: $(WM_PROJECT_DIR)/src/OpenFOAM/lnInclude/addToRunTimeSelectionTable.H

If I am not wrong, $WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR is already defined in OpenFOAM as well as $WM_PROJECT_DIR. For this reason I was expecting to have also an environment variable.

[wyldckat]

Hi agustinvo,

Originally Posted by agustinvo

If I am not wrong, $WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR is already defined in OpenFOAM as well as $WM_PROJECT_DIR. For this reason I was expecting to have also an environment variable.

From the information you've provided, it seems that everything is working as you want it to work.
What you might not yet have noticed is that the "*.dep" files will be reconstructed automatically by wmake. For example:

1. In computer A, you built your library like this:
   

   wmake libso

2. Then you copied the whole source code folder of the library to computer B.
3. The correct step is to now run the following commands for building your library on computer B:
   

   wclean libso
   wmake libso

   1. The first command will remove all intermediate build files (including the "*.dep" files);
   2. and the second one will generate all of the necessary intermediate files (including the "*.dep" files) and build the library.

Technically, you should run wclean before copying the source code, so that it will only copy the necessary files.

Best regards,
Bruno