Warning

This is the documentation for the development version of DTK. There may be significant differences from the latest stable release. Please follow this link if you are looking for DTK 2.0

Installation

This section provide guidelines for installing DataTransferKit and its TPLs.

Install third-party libraries

The following third party libraries (TPLs) are used by DTK:

Packages	Dependency	Version
Boost	Required	1.59.0
BLAS/LAPACK	Required	N/A
MPI	Optional	N/A
Trilinos	Required	12.X

Note

DTK is built as an external package of Trilinos. Thus, DTK needs the source of the Trilinos library rather than an installed version.

The dependencies of DataTransferKit may be built using Spack package manager. You need to install the following packages:

$ spack install openblas
$ spack install boost
$ spack install mpi

Once installed, the module files for the packages must be loaded into the environment by doing

$ spack load openblas
$ spack load boost
$ spack load openmpi

DTKData repository

The DTKData repository contains mesh files used in DTK examples. To build the examples and include the mesh files include the git submodule with your cloned repository:

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update

Another way to achieve this is to pass the --recursive option to the git clone command which will automatically initialize and update DTKData in the DataTransferKit repository.

Building DTK

DTK is configured and built using TriBITS. DTK builds within Trilinos effectively as an extension package. First, link DTK into the Trilinos main directory:

$ cd $TRILINOS_DIR
$ ln -s $DTK_DIR

Create a do-configure script such as:

EXTRA_ARGS=$@

cmake \
    -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$INSTALL_DIR \
    -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=DEBUG \
    -D CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=OFF \
    -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF \
    -D TPL_ENABLE_MPI:BOOL=ON \
    -D TPL_ENABLE_Boost:BOOL=ON \
    -D Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS:PATH=$BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR \
    -D TPL_ENABLE_Libmesh:BOOL=OFF \
    -D TPL_ENABLE_Netcdf:BOOL=OFF \
    -D TPL_ENABLE_MOAB:BOOL=OFF \
    -D TPL_ENABLE_BinUtils:BOOL=OFF \
    -D Trilinos_ENABLE_ALL_OPTIONAL_PACKAGES:BOOL=OFF \
    -D Trilinos_EXTRA_REPOSITORIES="DataTransferKit" \
    -D Trilinos_ENABLE_EXPLICIT_INSTANTIATION:BOOL=ON \
    -D Trilinos_ENABLE_CXX11:BOOL=ON \
    -D Trilinos_ENABLE_DataTransferKit:BOOL=ON \
    -D DataTransferKit_ENABLE_DBC:BOOL=ON \
    -D DataTransferKit_ENABLE_TESTS:BOOL=ON \
    -D DataTransferKit_ENABLE_EXAMPLES:BOOL=ON \
    $EXTRA_ARGS \
    $TRILINOS_DIR

and run it from your build directory:

$ mkdir build && cd build
$ ../do-configure

More install scripts can be found in scripts/.

Build this documentation

Building documentation requires sphinx. (Re)configure with -D DataTransferKit_ENABLE_ReadTheDocs=ON and run:

$ make docs

Open the index.html in the directory DataTransferKit/docs/html.

Generate Doxygen documentation

Configure with -D DataTransferKit_ENABLE_Doxygen=ON and run:

$ make doxygen

Checkout DataTransferKit/docs/doxygen/html/index.html.