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<h3>Supported platforms</h3>
- At present, <acronym>deal.II</acronym> has been
- developed and tested on the following platforms:
- <ul>
- <li>Linux on x86, with gcc 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5; and
- Intel ICC 10.0, 11.0 and 12; clang 3.1
- <li>Linux on x86_64 (Opteron, AMD64, and Intel EM64T chips) using gcc
- 3.3, 3.4, 4.0, 4.1, 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5; clang 3.1
- <li>Mac OS X 10.2 or later, with gcc 4.0 or later (Please see the <a href="http://dealii.sourceforge.net/index.php?title=Main_Page"
- target="_top">deal.II Wiki</a> for installation issues);
- <li>Sun Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, and 9 on Sparc, with
- gcc 3.2, 3.3, 3.4;
- <li>Linux on IA-64 (Itanium), using gcc 3.4.2, 4.1.2 and ICC
- 9.1, ICC 10.0;
- <li>Linux on x86, with the PathScale EKOPath compiler version
- 2.2 (though only with static instead of shared libraries);
- <li>Linux on x86, with Portland Groups (PGI) pgCC compiler
- version 7.1 and 7.2;
- <li>AIX 5.3 on Power 6, with gcc 4.3;
- <li><a href="http://www.cygwin.com"
- target="_top">Cygwin/Windows</a> with cygwin1.dll versions
- 1.5.xx, and gcc 3.3 and 3.4 under Windows XP and
- NT. For <a href="http://dealii.sourceforge.net/index.php?title=Windows"
- target="_top">installing under Windows</a>, please refer to
- additional information on
- the <a href="http://dealii.sourceforge.net/index.php?title=Main_Page"
- target="_top">deal.II Wiki</a>!
- </ul>
- Newer versions of the compilers listed above are also likely to
- work, as are other brands of Unix (for example Sun Solaris,
- FreeBSD, or Linux on chips like SPARC, PA-RISC, PowerPC, etc) using
- gcc as compiler, but we do not regularly test them.
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- There are of course many other C++ compilers out there though
- they seem to become fewer and fewer. Our experience is that with
- most of them some part or other of the C++ standard is not
- supported and they eventually fail on a project as large as
- deal.II. Some may in fact work if one puts in enough time, but
- your best bet is probably to stick with the ones listed above.
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym> is mostly developed on Linux using the
+ <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">GCC</a> compiler. However, it is not
+ platform specific and we strive to keep the source code C++
+ standard compliant.
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- <acronym>deal.II</acronym> uses only very few features of an
- operating system. It should therefore be rather simple to port it
- to other systems, at least with the compilers stated above. If
- your system is not on this list, take a look at the page that
- describes <a href="porting.html" target="body">porting the library
- to new systems</a>.
+ We expect that <acronym>deal.II</acronym> should work on the following
+ platforms:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Linux: using the GCC compiler versions 4.0 or later; using the
+ clang compiler version 3.1 or later.
+ <li>Mac OS X: using the GCC compiler version 4.0 or later (Please see
+ the <a href="http://dealii.sourceforge.net/index.php?title=Main_Page"
+ target="_top">deal.II Wiki</a> for installation issues);
+ <li><a href="http://www.cygwin.com"
+ target="_top">Cygwin/Windows</a> with recent GCC
+ versions. For <a href="http://dealii.sourceforge.net/index.php?title=Windows"
+ target="_top">installing on Windows</a>, please refer to
+ additional information on
+ the <a href="http://dealii.sourceforge.net/index.php?title=Main_Page"
+ target="_top">deal.II Wiki</a>!
+ </ul>
+ Most other combinations of POSIX-style operating systems and C++
+ standards compliant compilers should also work. If they don't, please
+ report it as a bug.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ There are many C++ compilers out there. Our experience is that,
+ unfortunately, most of them do not fully support the C++ 1998 standard
+ upon which we build, and they eventually fail on a project as large as
+ deal.II. Your best bet is to stick with the ones listed above. The only
+ platform where this is not trivial is Microsoft Windows where the widely
+ used Microsoft Visual C++ compiler simply has too many bugs supporting
+ advanced C++ code.
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In order to compile and use the <acronym>deal.II</acronym>
libraries you need to have the following programs installed:
<ul>
- <li> <p>
- A fairly complete C++ compiler. Various working compilers
- are listed above. We do not support gcc versions older than
- 3.2 any more at this time.
- Note that we are interested in writing portable C++, so if you find
- something that does not work with your compiler, we are
- likely to accept patches.
- </p>
-
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Perl: Any Perl 5.x version should work.
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<li> <p>
Make: We use <a href="http://www.gnu.org"
- target="_top">GNU make</a>, version 3.78 or later which also
- has rather good support for parallel builds, so you may
- want to consider this version if you have a multiprocessor
- system. GNU make 3.77 had a serious flaw in the
- <code>$(wildcard ...)</code> function which prevented us
- from compiling some parts of the library (most of our
- Makefiles use a workaround, though). Older GNU make
- versions are likely to work, but since they are hardly
- installed on systems today, we don't regularly test
- this. Other make programs (i.e. non-GNU) will usually fail
+ target="_top">GNU make</a>, version 3.78 or later. Other make
+ programs (i.e. non-GNU) will usually fail
to work and are not supported.
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install the <a href="http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/">HDF5 library</a>
separately. Configure with <code>--with-hdf5=</code> and point it to
the h5pcc or h5cc script inside your hdf5 installation.
-
+
For a detailed description of how to compile HDF5 and linking with
deal.II, see <a href="external-libs/hdf5.html" target="body">this
page</a>.
<p>
Some information beyond what is covered in the documentation of
the library may be found on the
- <a href="http://www.dealii.org" target="_top">homepage of
- <acronym>deal.II</acronym></a>, or in the
+ <a href="http://www.dealii.org" target="_top"><acronym>deal.II</acronym>
+ homepage</a>, or in the
<a href="http://dealii.sourceforge.net/index.php?title=Deal.II_Questions_and_Answers" target="_top">Frequently Asked Questions</a> section.
If you don't find what you're looking for,
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- <a href="http://www.dealii.org/mailman/listinfo/dealii" target="body">Mailing list</a>.
+ <a href="http://www.dealii.org/mail.html" target="body">mailing list</a>.
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