Installation

Quick start

Building from source

Dependencies

DOLFIN requires a compiler that supports the C++11 standard.

The required and optional DOLFIN dependencies are listed below.

Required

• Boost (http://www.boost.org), with the following compiled Boost components
  • filesystem
  • iostreams
  • program_options
  • timer
• CMake (https://cmake.org)
• Eigen3 (http://eigen.tuxfamily.org)
• FFC (https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/ffc)
• pkg-config (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/)
• zlib

Required for Python interface

• Python (including header files)
• SWIG (http://www.swig.org)
• NumPy (http://www.numpy.org)
• ply (https://github.com/dabeaz/ply)

Optional

• HDF5, with MPI support enabled
• MPI
• ParMETIS [1]
• PETSc (strongly recommended) [2]
• SCOTCH and PT-SCOTCH [1]
• SLEPc
• Suitesparse [1]
• Trilinos
• VTK

Optional for the Python interface

• petsc4py
• slepc4py
• mpi4py
• Matplotlib

[1]	(1, 2, 3) It is strongly recommended to use the PETSc build system to download and configure and build these libraries.

[2]	Its is recommended to configuration with ParMETIS, PT-SCOTCH, MUMPS and Hypre using the --download-parmetis --download-ptscotch --download-suitesparse --download-mumps --download-hypre