Installation and Setup

Installation and Setup

There are two ways to make use of the xfemm project. One is to use it as
a collections of standalone programs run from the command line. The other
is to use it through the Matlab/Octave programming language.

The standalone programs are fmesher and fsolver. There is also a library
of post-processing functions called fpproc, but no standalone program
interface is provided to this at this time, you will have to create your
own (note that the Matlab/Octave interface does, however, provide full
access to fpproc).

Compiling Standalone Binary Programs

Released versions of xfemm come with pre-built binaries. But if you want
to compile xfemm on your platform, you can do so quite easily with cmake
and your compiler of choice. Run cmake on the CMakeLists.txt in the cfemm
directory to create the build system, and then build the project. OnLinus
this would be done as

cd <install dir="">/xfemm/cfemm
cmake .
make

the built binary files are found in the xfemm/cfemm/bin directory.

Compiling Matlab Interface

Detailed instructions for compiling the Matlab inteface can be found in
the README file provided in the mfemm directory. The process is fairly well
automated.