Installation and compilation

Latest update : 2 February.

1. Installing SURFEX

2. Compiling the SURFEX code

3. Recompiling your own sources only

4. Compilation options

5. Install and run a pre-defined experiment

Windows users :
If you have a Windows working station, we encourage you to use a Linux VM to install and run SURFEX. You can for instance use VirtualBox, which documentation is available here: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#gui-createvm

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Libraries package

LIB-SURFEX-9-1-0.tar.gz
Install an run a pre-defined experiment

How to install a pre-defined experiment: in new terminal, in src/ directory export VER_USER=FORC run ./configure ./configure execute the profile file corresponding to this user version of surfex . ../conf/profile_surfex-LXgfortran-SFX-V9-1-0-FORC-MPIAUTO-O2-X0 run make user and make (…)
Compilation options

To change the default options of compilation : export OPTION=myoption For exemple, to compile without MPI library export VER_MPI=NOMPI Options for VER_MPI: NOMPI (no MPI), MPIAUTO (default MPI library on the PC), specific libraries to be defined Options for VER_OMP: NOOMP (no Open-mp), OMP (…)
Recompiling your own sources

You may develop and modify the original (MASTER) version of the SURFEX code. Here we explain how to compile your own sources only.
Suppose you want to create a "MYSRC" version.
1. Prepare your source directory Put your own sources in a subdirectory of "$SRC_SURFEX/src" named (…)
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 (…)

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