CMake and Feel++ applications

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Feel++ offers a development environment for solving partial differential equations. It uses many tools to cover the different steps pre-processing, processing and post-processing and large range of numerical methods and needs. To this end it is crucial to have a powerful build environment. Feel++ uses CMake from Kitware and provides various macros to help setting up your own application or research project.

1. CMake macros

1.1. Setting up Feel++ environment

See section Using Feel++.

1.2. Adding a new application

See section Using Feel++.

1.3. Adding a new testcase

For a give application or multiple applications you may define testcases. testcases are difrectory containing a set of files that may include geometry, mesh, cfg or json files.

To define a new testcase case, create a sub-directory where your application, say myapp like in the previous section, stands and copy the required files there.

cd <source directory of my application>
mkdir mytestcase
# copy files (.geo, .msh, .cfg...) to mytestcase
...

then edit the CMakeLists.txt in your application directory and add the following line:

feelpp_add_testcase(mytestcase)

Then type make feelpp_add_testcase_mytestcase in the build directory of your application myapp. It will copy in the build directory of your application the directory mytestcase.

INFO: if you updated the testcase data files, executing make feelpp_testcase_mytestcase will use rsync to update the files that were changed in the source.

The macro feelpp_add_testcase supports options:

PREFIX: (default is feelpp) set the prefix of the target to avoid eg name clash

feelpp_add_testcase(mytestcase PREFIX foo)

then the target is foo_add_testcase_mytestcase.

DEPS: set the dependencies of the testcase

feelpp_add_testcase(mytestcase DEPS myothertestcase)

it allows to update a testcase depending on changes in an other one.