Tutorials for Installing C/C++ compiler and libraries

Tutorials for Installing C/C++ compiler and libraries#

  • Create these directories to put your installed libraries. You can install them anywhere you want. Just keep in mind that you need to add the library paths into ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc in this form.

mkdir $HOME/local
mkdir $HOME/local/bin
mkdir $HOME/local/include
mkdir $HOME/local/lib

################ In ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc ##############
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/local/bin"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/local/lib"
export LIBRARY_PATH="$LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/local/lib"
export CPATH="$CPATH:$HOME/local/include"
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Install compiler#

  • If you already have compilers, you can skip this procedure. But the reason I did it here is because I want to have compilers that I have the permission to change without the root privilege.

  • Note that if you want to use CUDA, the compiler version for gcc should be less than gcc-10.

wget https://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-13.2.0/gcc-13.2.0.tar.gz
tar xf gcc-13.2.0.tar.gz
mkdir gcc13
################ In ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc ##############
unset LIBRARY_PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH
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cd gcc-13.2.0

./contrib/download_prerequisites

./configure --prefix=$HOME/gcc13 --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --disable-multilib

make -j64
make check
make install

In ~/.zshrc

################ In ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc ##############
export PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/bin:${HOME}/gcc13/lib64:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/lib64:$LIBRARY_PATH
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Install mpich (Not necessary)#

  • CUDA can also be installed and link to mpich. You should specify it in the ./configure command.

wget https://www.mpich.org/static/downloads/4.2.0/mpich-4.2.0.tar.gz
tar xf mpich-4.2.0.tar.gz
mkdir mpich4
cd mpich-4.2.0
./configure -prefix=/home/Aaron/mpich4
make -j64
make check
make install
################ In ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc ##############
export PATH=/home/Aaron/mpich4/bin:$PATH
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Install cmake#

git clone https://github.com/Kitware/CMake.git
cd CMake
git checkout tags/v3.29.1
./bootstrap --prefix=$HOME/local

If you encounter some errors that need to resolve by installing some system-level libraries such as openGL or openSSH, you can install cmake from miniconda, pip or install the missing libraries by sudo apt-get install from permission of the system administrator. Building from source is possible and please refer to the official website for more information.

The procedure to install netcdf-cxx#

Install hdf5#

git clone https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5.git
cd hdf5
git checkout tags/hdf5-1_8_14
# ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --enable-fortran --enable-cxx --enable-parallel --enable-unsupported (error for parallel)

# Use this to enable Fortran
# ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --enable-fortran --enable-cxx

# Use this to enable only C++
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --enable-cxx
make -j32
make check
make install

Install netcdf-c#

git clone https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c.git
cd netcdf-c
git checkout tags/v4.3.3.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --enable-netcdf-4
make
make check
make install

Noted that if you encounter the error like this configure: error: Cannot find m4 utility. Install m4 and try again. You can install m4 from this website https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/

wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/m4/m4-1.4.1.tar.gz
tar xf m4-1.4.1.tar.gz
cd m4-1.4.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make -j16
make check
make install

Install netcdf-cxx#

git clone https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-cxx4.git
cd netcdf-cxx4
git checkout v4.2.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make -j16
make check
make install

Install petsc (Not necessary)#

git clone -b release https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc.git petsc
cd ~/petsc
./configure COPTFLAGS="-g -O3" --prefix=${petsc_prefix} --with-openmp=1 --with-cuda=1 --with-cc=mpicc --with-cxx=mpicxx --with-fc=mpifort --download-f2cblaslapack=1 --download-triangle=1

################ In ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc ##############
export PATH=/home/Aaron/gcc13/bin:/home/Aaron/gcc13/lib64:$PATH
unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/Aaron/gcc13/lib/

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/local/bin"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/local/lib"
export LIBRARY_PATH="$LIBRARY_PATH:$HOME/local/lib"
export CPATH="$CPATH:$HOME/local/include"

export PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/bin:${HOME}/gcc13/lib64:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/lib64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/lib:$LIBRARY_PATH
export LIBRARY_PATH=${HOME}/gcc13/lib64:$LIBRARY_PATH

export PATH=/home/Aaron/mpich4/bin:$PATH

export petsc_prefix=$HOME/local/petsc
export PETSC_DIR=/home/Aaron/petsc
PETSC_ARCH="linux-opt"
export PYTHONPATH=${petsc_prefix}/lib

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$C_INCLUDE_PATH:${HOME}/local/petsc/include
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH:${HOME}/local/include

export C_INCLUDE_PATH=$C_INCLUDE_PATH:${HOME}/mpich4/include
export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH:${HOME}/mpich4/include
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HOME}/mpich4/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HOME}/mpich4/lib64
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