Setup Your Development Environment

RHEL 8 is the recommended Dakota development environment, as Dakota tests are baselined (primarily) to stock RHEL8 packages. SNL developers should see team documentation for access to RHEL 8 resources . See Setup Development Environment for pointers on setting up a development environment on various platforms, and overall information on Compiling Dakota.

A typical developer CMake configuration of Dakota, e.g., on RHEL 8 includes the use of the DevDistro convenience option which enables developer compiler options, documentation, and specification maintenance and some typical features:

cmake \
-D DevDistro:BOOL=ON -D DAKOTA_HAVE_HDF5:BOOL=TRUE \
-D HAVE_QUESO:BOOL=ON -D DAKOTA_HAVE_GSL:BOOL=ON" \
-D DAKOTA_PYTHON:BOOL=TRUE -D DAKOTA_PYTHON_DIRECT_INTERFACE:BOOL=TRUE -D DAKOTA_PYTHON_DIRECT_INTERFACE_NUMPY:BOOL=TRUE -D DAKOTA_PYTHON_SURROGATES:BOOL=TRUE -DDAKOTA_PYTHON_WRAPPER:BOOL=TRUE \
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Typically on stock RHEL 8, the following are also necessary:

cmake3 \
<options from above>
-D JAVA_HOME:PATH=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11 \
-D Boost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE:BOOL=TRUE -D Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS:BOOL=TRUE -D BOOST_INCLUDEDIR:PATH=/usr/include/boost169 -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR:PATH=/usr/lib64/boost169
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