DOLFIN User Manual - FEniCS Project
DOLFIN User Manual - FEniCS Project
DOLFIN User Manual - FEniCS Project
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<strong>DOLFIN</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Manual</strong>Hoffman, Jansson, Logg, Wells# tar zxfv dolfin-0.1.0.tar.gzThis creates a directory dolfin-0.1.0 containing the <strong>DOLFIN</strong> source code.If you want the very latest version of <strong>DOLFIN</strong>, there is also a version nameddolfin-cvs-current.tar.gz which provides a snapshot of the current CVSversion of <strong>DOLFIN</strong>, updated automatically from the CVS repository eachhour. This version may contain features not yet present in the latest release,but may also be less stable and even not work at all.B.1.3Compiling the source code<strong>DOLFIN</strong> is built using the standard GNU Autotools (Automake, Autoconf),which means that the installation procedure is simple:# ./configure# makefollowed by an optional# make installto install <strong>DOLFIN</strong> on your system.The configure script will check for a number of libraries and try to figure outhow compile <strong>DOLFIN</strong> against these libraries. The configure script accepts acollection of optional arguments that can be used to control the compilationprocess. A few of these are listed below. Use the command# ./configure --help100