Friday, January 27, 2012

Compiling Meep

Meep is a fantastic electromagnetic field simulator from MIT. [Link:ab-initio.mit.edu]

It runs fine on my Windows XP laptop, but my laptop isn't all that powerful to perform any meaningful simulations reliably. Fortunately I got access to a bigger 64-bit Linux machine that's got 128GB of RAM :) Installing Meep on it was a bit of a pain, though.. as I didn't have administrative access to that system, and finding the right versions of dependencies and compiling them with the right options was tricky.

Here's what finally worked for me:




mkdir --parents /home/kpachar1/meep/local

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.6.tar.gz
gunzip libtool-1.5.6.tar.gz
tar -xf libtool-1.5.6.tar
cd libtool-1.5.6
./configure --prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local
make clean
make
make install
cd ..

wget ftp://ftp.gmplib.org/pub/gmp-5.0.3/gmp-5.0.3.tar.bz2
bunzip2 gmp-5.0.3.tar.bz2
tar -xf gmp-5.0.3.tar
cd gmp-5.0.3
export LDFLAGS=-L/home/kpachar1/meep/local/lib
export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/kpachar1/meep/local/include
./configure --prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local
make clean
make
make install
cd ..

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/kpachar1/meep/local/lib

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/guile/guile-1.8.8.tar.gz
gunzip guile-1.8.8.tar.gz
tar -xf guile-1.8.8.tar
cd guile*
export LDFLAGS=-L/home/kpachar1/meep/local/lib
export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/kpachar1/meep/local/include
./configure --prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local --with-local-prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local
make clean
make
make install
cd ..

export PATH=$PATH:/home/kpachar1/meep/local/bin

wget http://ab-initio.mit.edu/libctl/libctl-3.1.tar.gz
gunzip libctl-3.1.tar.gz
tar -xf libctl-3.1.tar
cd libctl-3.1
export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/kpachar1/meep/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/home/kpachar1/meep/local/lib
./configure --prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local
make clean
make
make install
cd ..


wget http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.4/downloads/openmpi-1.4.4.tar.bz2
bunzip2 openmpi-1.4.4.tar.bz2
tar -xf openmpi-1.4.4.tar
cd openm*
./configure --prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local
make
make install
cd ..


wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.6/hdf5-1.6.10/src/hdf5-1.6.10.tar.gz
cd hdf5-1.6.10
./configure --prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local
make clean
make
make install
cd ..



wget http://ab-initio.mit.edu/h5utils/h5utils-1.12.1.tar.gz
gunzip h5utils-1.12.1.tar.gz
tar -xf h5utils-1.12.1.tar
cd h5utils-1.12.1
export LDFLAGS=-L/home/kpachar1/meep/local/lib
export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/kpachar1/meep/local/include
./configure --prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local
make clean
make
make install
cd ..


wget http://ab-initio.mit.edu/meep/meep-1.1.1.tar.gz
gunzip meep-1.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xf meep-1.1.1.tar
cd meep-1.1.1
./configure --prefix=/home/kpachar1/meep/local --with-libctl=/home/kpachar1/meep/local/share/libctl --with-mpi
make clean
make
make install
meep-mpi
cd ..

5 comments:

  1. Thanks a lot, this is of great help!!

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  2. Was helpful. I linked to your post http://msdresearch.blogspot.com/2012/04/meep-installation.html

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  3. Thanks, although I can intsall it easily on my ubuntu, I am happy to have these instructions. I am copying them to my mail draft. One more thing, do you have similar instructions for the MPB also??

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    1. I also did same installed on ubuntu but cant run some of instructions like run untill to get image plz help me out

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