Supported platforms and compilers

DIRAC requires Fortran 90, C, and C++ compilers. The program is designed to run on a unix-like operating system, and uses MPI for parallel calculations. Optionally DIRAC can (and should) be linked to platform specific BLAS and LAPACK libraries.

Additional dependencies due to PCMSolver

It is optionally possible to enable the polarizable continuum model functionality. The functionality is provided using the external module PCMSolver. The module requires additional dependencies:

  • the zlib compression library, version 1.2 or higher;
  • the Boost set of libraries, version 1.54 or higher.

The module performs checks on the system to find an installation of Boost that has the suitable version. The search is directed towards conventional system directories. If the search fails, the module will build a copy of Boost on the spot. If your system has Boost installed in a nonstandard location, e.g. /boost/location, you have to direct the search by adding the following flags to the setup script:

$ ./setup -DBOOST_INCLUDEDIR=/boost/location/include -DBOOST_LIBRARYDIR=/boost/location/lib

By default, compilation of the module is enabled. CMake will check that the additional dependencies are met. In case they are not, compilation of PCMSolver will be disabled. CMake will print out which dependencies were not satisfied. Passing the option -DENABLE_PCMSOLVER=OFF to the setup script will disable compilation of the module and skip detection of additional dependencies.