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The SC Library

This is the README file for libsc.

The SC Library provides support for parallel scientific applications.

Copyright (C) 2010 The University of Texas System Additional copyright (C) 2011 individual authors

libsc is written by Carsten Burstedde, Lucas C. Wilcox, Tobin Isaac, and others. libsc is free software released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence version 2.1 (or, at your option, any later version).

Please see doc/release_notes.txt for latest updates.

The official web page for source code and documentation is p4est.org. Please send bug reports and ideas for contribution to [e-mail]. You are also welcome to post issues on github. Please see the CONTRIBUTING file and our coding standards for details.

Building libsc

The build instructions for p4est also apply to standalone builds of libsc.

Autotools

The autotools build chain is fully supported.

In a fresh checkout, you may run ./bootstrap to create the configure script. Calling make will regenerate the tools configuration as needed. Only in rare cases ./bootstrap will have to be run again. The script depends on existing autoconf, automake, libtool and pkg-config tools.

Calling bootstrap is not required for unpacked tar archives, or after pulling fresh code.

We recommend running configure with a relative path from an empty build directory. Try

configure --help

for options and switches. For development with MPI:

cd empty/build/directory
../relative/path/to/configure --enable-mpi --enable-debug \
    CFLAGS="-O0 -g -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter"
make -j8 V=0

To run tests in parallel, run

make -j2 check V=0

and to pack a distribution tarball, call bootstrap and

mkdir -p build && cd build && ../configure
make -j3 distcheck V=0

The V=0 environment variable significantly unclutters console output. So far, we have not made V=0 the default.

CMake

For faster builds that work on Windows as well as MacOS and Linux, and that are easily usable from other CMake projects, libsc can be built directly, or used via FetchContent or ExternalProject from other CMake projects.

MPI and OpenMP are enabled by default, and the default build configuration is RelWithDebInfo:

cmake -B build
cmake --build build --parallel

To enable JSON via jansson, first install jansson CMake project, then specify path where you installed jansson to CMake, say ~/local:

cmake -B build -Djansson_ROOT=~/local
cmake --build build --parallel

To disable MPI:

cmake -B build -Dmpi=no

To disable OpenMP:

cmake -B build -Dopenmp=no

To compile with debug options:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

Optionally, run self-tests:

ctest --test-dir build

Optionally, install libsc like:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/local
cmake --install build

The optional examples can be built and tested like:

cmake -S example -B example/build -DSC_ROOT=~/local
cmake --build example/build
ctest --test-dir example/build

Distribution packages

For developers, source and binary distribution packages are generated after building libsc by:

cpack --config build/CPackSourceConfig.cmake
cpack --config build/CPackConfig.cmake

which creates files:

• build/package/SC-<version>-Source.zip containing source code
• build/package/SC-<version>-<platform>.zip containing binary libraries and executables suitable for computers of same operating system and compatible CPU arch