How to get the `serialbox2/examples/fortran/perturbation` compiled? about serialbox HOT 2 CLOSED

Hey Adam,

The example is intentionally disabled from the main CMake project as it is a stand-alone example. This means you have to use Serialbox as an external library and this example demonstrates how this is being done i.e guides you through the process of setting up CMake to link against Serialbox.

To get it working, proceed the following:

• First you need to compile and install Serialbox with Fortran enabled (see https://eth-cscs.github.io/serialbox2/Building.html). By default, Serialbox is installed in serialbox2/install. Something like:

  git clone https://github.com/eth-cscs/serialbox2.git
  cd serialbox2
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake -DSERIALBOX_ENABLE_FORTRAN=ON ../
  make
  make install

  should do the trick.

• Now we can compile the example (or any other project which uses Serialbox for that matter). Note that this is completely decoupled from the build we did before (it only uses the installed headers and binaries!).

  1. Change to the directory serialbox2/examples/fortran/perturbation

  cd  serialbox2/examples/fortran/perturbation

  2. Create a build directory

  mkdir build
  cd build

  3. Now we are ready to run CMake for this example. Take a look at examples/fortran/perturbation/CMakeLists.txt which has a very detailed explanation on what exactly is going on and how to use CMake with Serialbox. Further, the documentation on how to use Serialbox as an external project (https://eth-cscs.github.io/serialbox2/Usage.html) may be of use. Basically the only thing you need to provide is the install location of Serialbox. For this example however, the location of Serialbox (SERIALBOX_ROOT) is hard-coded i.e it assumes the installation of Serialbox is in ../../../install (but you can also remove this line and pass SERIALBOX_ROOT via command-line to have a more realistic environment). Now, this simply means we can run CMake in the build directory:

  cmake ../

  which will create all the build files directly in serialbox2/examples/fortran/perturbation/build and a follow up make will build the example. Note that for this example you need to compile Serialbox with Fortran enabled (https://eth-cscs.github.io/serialbox2/Building.html#building-the-fortran-interface) otherwise the CMake module will complain.

Let me know if there are any further issues.

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OK. Everything works. Thanks!

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