Installing SURFEX on your Météo-France/CNRM computer

On Météo-France/CNRM computers, the ’./configure’ is tuned to identify the computer on which the command is used so the good compiler, MPI & netCDF libraries, ... are automatically chosen.

OPEN-SURFEX
So you don’t need to install anything before compiling the code.

SURFEX from GIT repository (opensource)
So you don’t need to install anything before compiling the code.

SURFEX from GITHUB repository
Starting with SURFEX 9.1 and above, certain libraries (previously included in the repository) have been externalized and are available for download. Only if you need to use OASIS and/or XIOS, and only for a SURFEX version 9.1 (and above) installation :

• download the libraries package which corresponds to your code version
• copy this package in the src/LIB directory of your SURFEX repository
• untar the package (tar -xzvf LIB-SURFEX-9-1-0.tar.gz)