oommf-in-spack

Introduction

Support repository for getting the OOMMF package into Spack.

Mostly aimed for maintainers of the OOMMF package in spack: to test changes to the oommf/spack.py file before request merges in spack upstream.

There is a related effort to run some tests on the OOMMF package in spack for older versions of spack at https://github.com/fangohr/spack-ci-oommf .

Status

Compile OOMMF in Debian (without spack, just for reference):

Compile OOMMF on (Debian) Linux with spack using the oommf/package.py file in this repository:

Required commands to compile OOMMF with Spack

Compilation of OOMMF

At the moment, this is under development, and we need three lines

1. install spack as described here:

   git clone -c feature.manyFiles=true https://github.com/spack/spack.git ~/spack

2. cd into spack directory with: cd ~/spack
3. activate spack with source share/spack/setup-env.sh
4. Then compile oommf (this could take some time):

spack install oommf

Ideally, there are no errors.

Additional tests

We can run some additional checks with these commands

• spack test run --alias oommftest oommf

To see the results, use - spack test results -l oommftest

To use OOMMF after installation

1. Activate spack (adjust the path below if not inside spack directory)

• source share/spack/setup-env.sh

2. Load oommf

• spack load oommf

3. Use oommf

Now oommf.tcl should be in the path and can be used as usual.

Experimental work in progress (OSX)

More experimental are the following (and done in separate branches):

1. Compile OOMMF on OSX with Spack, see osx branch at https://github.com/fangohr/oommf-in-spack/tree/osx.

   

2. Compile OOMMF on Debian and OSX, using Spack’s develop branch, see https://github.com/fangohr/oommf-in-spack/tree/spack-develop.