The installation steps differs with the operating system.
FreeFEM supports two kinds systems :
-
Windows/Cygwin1 environment
- Linux/Unix systems
Both systems follows the POSIX standard. It is strongly recommended to use the configure
script. It is much easier and should be platform independent, you don't have to know anything about
your system. Everything is done for you. However one suggests the use of make for the GNU
Project: it is the best make utility and will work without problems with
freefem. This utility is available at several ftp sites in France or in the USA.
-
prep.mit.ai.eduftp://prep.ai.mit.edu
- ftp.lip6.frftp://ftp.lip6.fr
2.0.1 Configure script
type:
configure
make
make install #if you want to install the software on a site
The binary freefem will be in the directory src.
We use autoconf and automake in conjunction in order to be
as general as possible. These tools are not required to use or compile
freeFEM but if you want to change the code you will need these.
These tools are available on the GNU ftp site:
ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu. You can get them in France at
ftp://ftp.ibp.fr/pub/gnu.
Type:
configure
make
make install #if you want to install the software on a site
Debugging
By default freefem is compiled with the -O2 flags for optimization.
If you want to debug the library, then USE the following configure option
–enable-debug. That is to say, type
configure --enable-debug
at the configure step of the installation.
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- http://www.cygwin.comhttp://www.cygwin.com