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Kelly (KT) Thompson edited this page Mar 3, 2019 · 6 revisions

Introduction

  • These are not meant to be instructions, but rather working notes while this process is standardized.
  • I have not worked with the 64-bit flavor of these instructions. Assume everything is 32-bit.

Install required software and Third Party Libraries (TPLs)

  • Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. Choose the following options:
    • Visual C++
    • Git for Windows
  • CMake 3.11+
  • Random123
  • GSL 
    > git clone [email protected]:KineticTheory/gsl
> cd $build_dir
> cmake -G"Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -DGSL_INSTALL_MULTI_CONFIG=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DMSVC_RUNTIME_DYNAMIC=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=c:\work\vendors64\gsl-2.4 c:\work\gsl
> cmake --build . --target gsl --config Release
> cmake --build . --target install --config Release
    • Alternate: GSL
  • Microsoft MPI
  • Python 2 for Windows - or use the python3 that ships with VS2017.

Optional tools

Recommended Directory Layout

  • c:\work\vendors64 - Unzip or install Random123 and GSL here.
  • c:\work\draco - This is the git controlled source directory
  • C:\work\vs2017_x64\d - This is the build directory
  • C:\work\vs2017_x64\install - This is the install location.

Adding Fortran Support

  • Visual Studio does not provide native support for Fortran.
  • The Draco build system has a modified version of CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory that allows the Fortran portions of the code to be built with gfortran provided by msys2/mingw32.
  • To enable Fortran support
    • Install msys2/mingw32 and update the installation:
      • start the msys64 shell
      • Update the installation: pacman -Syuu (repeat as needed; might need to exit the shell and restart it.)
      • Install mingw32: pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc
      • Install mingw64: pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
      • Search for other packages: pacman -Ss fortran ==> mingw-w64-i686-gcc-fortran
      • Install 32-bit gfortran: pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc-fortran
      • For the next step, you also need gendef: pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-tools
  • To allow Microsoft MPI to work with mingw32's gfortran requires two extra steps:
    • We must convert the .dll into a .a:
      • Start a mingw32 shell
      • cd /i/work/vendors
      • gendef /c/windows/system32/msmpi.dll ==> msmpi.def
      • dlltool -d msmpi.def -l libmsmpi.a -D msmpi.dll ==> libmsmpi.a
    • cp libmsmpi.a /c/program files/microsoft mpi/bin/.
    • rm msmpi.def
    • We must modify mpif.h
      • Edit C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\MPI\Include\mpif.h
      • Replace the single occurrence of INT_PTR_KIND() with 8.
  • CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory issues.
    • There appears to be an issue with Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. I posted the following to [email protected]:
I use the CMakeAddFortranSubdirectory feature in one of my projects.  This appears to be broken under
Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition RC because CMake\share\cmake-3.8\Modules\Platform\GNUtoMS_lib.bat.in 
generates a batch file that contains:

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvars32.bat"

and this batch function changes the current working directory to %USERPROFILE%/Source (unlike earlier 
versions).  Has anyone else seen this?

I have fixed the issue by replacing the cmake provided GNUtoMS_lib.bat.in with

@echo off
set CWD=%CD%
call "@CMAKE_GNUtoMS_BAT@"
cd /d %CWD%
lib /machine:"@CMAKE_GNUtoMS_ARCH@" %*

I'm not sure if CMake needs to make this change more permanent or if this is a bug in VS2017.

Setup the developer environment

  • Create c:\work\vendors\setup.bat that contains something like this:
@echo off
set VENDOR_DIR=c:\work\vendors
set GSL_ROOT_DIR=%VENDOR_DIR%\gsl-1.16
set RANDOM123_INC_DIR=%VENDOR_DIR%\Random123-1.08\include

rem Mingw-w64 (gfortran)
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\msys64\mingw32\bin

rem CMake
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin

rem Help cmake find vcvars32.bat
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build

Clone draco

  • Use Tortoise or Git for Windows to clone the Draco repository.
  • Optional: configure your ssh keys and add the upstream repository.

Configure, Build and Test

  • Start the Visual Studio Command Prompt. There should be a shortcut named x86 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2017 RC.
  • cd c:\work\vendors
  • setup.bat
  • Start cmake: cmake-gui
  • Sources: c:\work\draco
  • Binaries: c:\work\vs2017\d
  • Configure
  • Generate
  • Open Project
  • Right click on Solution Explorer --> CMakePredefinedTargets --> All_Build and select Build
  • Tests can be run from the Command Prompt for Visual Studio: ctest -C Debug -j 4

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