TECA Superbuild

The TECA superbuild contains build scripts for TECA and all of its 3rd-party dependencies. This project provides an easy way to get all of TECA's dependencies and insure that NetCDF and HDF5 are built thread-safe.

Quick Start

To build the latest released version of TECA including all of its dependencies.

$ git clone https://github.com/LBL-EESA/TECA_superbuild.git
$ cd TECA_superbuild
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<prefix> ..
$ make -j <number of build threads> install

It's important to set the install prefix to a spot that is writable as running 'make' installs each dependency as it's built.

Apple Mac OSX

When using clang On OSX one must set the compilers explicitly, else zlib fails to detect that its being compiled for OSX and libz will be built as a Linux libarary and will not contain the correct rpaths, and Python zlib module will fail to import, as a result breaking setuptools build. One can set the clang (or other compilers) with

-DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=`which clang`
-DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=`which clang++`

Running TECA Apps

When using programs built against this install, source the following configuration file. This ensures that the install takes precedence over any conflicting installs that may be present on your system.

$ source <prefix>/bin/teca_env.sh

Options and Defaults

The following build options are available:

MPI4PY_CONFIG "Select the mpi4py configuration" "MPICH"
ENABLE_BOOST "builds and installs Boost" ON
ENABLE_LIBXLSXWRITER "builds and installs libxlsxwriter" ON
ENABLE_MPICH "builds and installs MPICH MPI" ON
WITHOUT_MPI "Disable all dependence on MPI" OFF
ENABLE_NETCDF "builds and installs NetCDF group" ON
ENABLE_PYTHON "builds and installs Python group" ON
ENABLE_MATPLOTLIB "builds and installs mnatplotlib group" ON
ENABLE_UDUNITS "builds and installs UDUNITS" ON
ENABLE_TECA "builds and installs TECA" ON