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gerlero / openfoam-app

Native OpenFOAM for macOS
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problem for wmake #25

Closed Boris3305 closed 2 years ago

Boris3305 commented 2 years ago

Thank u for your work for this app. I'm new for openfoam, and now I'm studying how to use this app. But there are some problems:

  1. If I need creat the direction such as $FOAM_USER_APPBIN myself ?
  2. When I use the there are an erro code 1 happened, it said that cant output to /volumes/openfoam2112/.../bin . Is this cause by the virtual disk for openfoam is only read?

Thanks!

gerlero commented 2 years ago

Usually, you don't need to create that directory. But in any case, you can make sure that such directory exists by doing mkdir -p $FOAM_USER_APPBIN (and same for $FOAM_USER_LIBBIN, if necessary). I'm assuming you're asking this because you're trying to install a third-party extension.

$FOAM_SITE_APPBIN (and $FOAM_SITE_LIBBIN) are a different story. Those environment variables by default point to paths inside the virtual disk, which is indeed non-writable. The path you mention makes me think that the extension is trying to install binaries there. You might want to change it so that it installs into the "USER" directories instead.

Changing the values of the "SITE" variables so that they point to someplace writable might also do it (although this could be a bit hackish—I have never tried it). Note that the "SITE" directories are not user-writable in precompiled Linux builds as well.

Boris3305 commented 2 years ago

I ll try it. Thank u!

Boris3305 commented 2 years ago

I find another way run openfoam on my MAC. And I think it can help improve this work. U may see in this site :https://github.com/mrklein/openfoam-os-x/issues/75#issuecomment-1029923388

Finally, Thank U for you work to help me step into this APP

gerlero commented 2 years ago

Actually, those are pretty much the same steps that this project uses to compile OpenFOAM on macOS.

It seems that the third-party extension that you're attempting to install expects/requires a user-writable OpenFOAM install (may I ask which software that is?), which the prepackaged app that you can download from here is not.

However, you can get a read-write OpenFOAM DMG with this project by cloning this repo and doing the build yourself (you'll find an OpenFOAM-v2112-build.dmg inside the build directory, which is what you seem to require).

Boris3305 commented 2 years ago

It just the exmple in the openfoam guid complie the pisoFoam solver. When I use repo wmake, there is the error "cant write into ...". And the build step in README, I dont know why it doesnt work.(I'm newbie for all this linux, C++ and Openfoam) So it's hard for me knowing which part is wrong. But I'm sure the BUILD step is main reason cause this problem.

Boris3305 commented 2 years ago

BTW, when I want to cd openfoam-app, it seems that there isnt this dir. That why I failed BUILD

gerlero commented 2 years ago

I get it now. You're modifying the OpenFOAM source code directly and want to recompile it in place... Well, in that case you need a user-writable OpenFOAM install, which means that you should probably compile OpenFOAM yourself (as I said, you can clone this repo and do make build to get a writable DMG with OpenFOAM, which will let you do what you want to do).

gerlero commented 2 years ago

BTW, when I want to cd openfoam-app, it seems that there isnt this dir. That why I failed BUILD

You probably need clone this repo first. E.g.:

git clone https://github.com/gerlero/openfoam2112-app.git
cd openfoam2112-app
make build

The make build command will build OpenFOAM into the writable OpenFOAM-v2112-build.dmg that you need, and then stop there (i.e., it won't continue and build the full OpenFOAM-v2112.app).

Boris3305 commented 2 years ago

It seems work! I‘ll try it after . Thank u !