Boost 1.63.0

Basic information

  • Official Website: http://www.boost.org/
  • License: Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003
  • Installed on: Apolo II and Cronos
  • Installation date: 22/02/2017

Tested on (Requirements)

  • OS base: CentOS (x86_64) \(\boldsymbol{\ge}\) 6.6 (Rocks 6.2)
  • Dependencies:
    • GNU GCC >= 5.4.0 (64 Bits)
    • OpenMPI >= 1.8.8 (64 Bits)
    • Python >= 2.7.12
    • ICU >= 58.2

Installation

  1. Download the desired version of the software (Source code - tar.gz)

    cd /home/mgomezzul/apps/boost/gcc/5.4.0
wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost/1.63.0/boost_1_63_0.tar.gz?r=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fboost%2Ffiles%2Fboost%2F1.63.0%2F&ts=1487777375&use_mirror=superb-dca2
tar -zxvf boost_1_63_0.tar.gz

  2. After unpacking Boost, continue with the following steps for configuration and compilation:

    cd boost_1_63_0/tools/build/
module load openmpi/1.8.8-x86_64_gcc-5.4.0_cuda-8.0 python/2.7.12_intel-2017_update-1 icu/58.2_gcc-5.4.0
./bootstrap.sh
sudo mkdir -p /share/apps/boost/1.63.0/gcc/5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0
sudo chown -R mgomezzul.apolo /share/apps/boost/1.63.0/gcc/5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0
emacs ~/user-config.jam
...
using mpi ;
...
./bjam install --prefix=/share/apps/boost/1.63.0/gcc/5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0
export PATH=/share/apps/boost/1.63.0/gcc/5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0/bin:$PATH
cd ../..
bjam --build-dir=/tmp/build-boost toolset=gcc stage address-model=64 --prefix=/share/apps/boost/1.63.0/gcc/5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0 install

Module

#%Module1.0#####################################################################
##
## modules boost/1.63.0_gcc-5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0
##
## /share/apps/modules/boost/1.63.0_gcc-5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0  Written by Mateo Gomez-Zuluaga
##

proc ModulesHelp { } {
    puts stderr "\tboost/1.63.0_gcc-5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0 - sets the environment for BOOST C++ \
                \n\tLIB in the shared directory /share/apps/boost/1.63.0/intel_impi/2017_update-1\n"
}

module-whatis "\n\n\tSets the environment for using BOOST 1.63.0 \
        \n\tbuilded with gcc-5.4.0, OpenMPI 1.8.8 x86_64, Python 2.7.12 Intel\n"

# for Tcl script use only
set     topdir     /share/apps/boost/1.63.0/gcc/5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0
set     version    1.63.0
set     sys        x86_64-redhat-linux

conflict boost

module load openmpi/1.8.8-x86_64_gcc-5.4.0_cuda-8.0
module load python/2.7.12_intel-2017_update-1
module load icu/58.2_gcc-5.4.0

prepend-path    PATH                    $topdir/bin

prepend-path    C_INCLUDE_PATH          $topdir/include
prepend-path    CXX_INCLUDE_PATH        $topdir/include
prepend-path    CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH      $topdir/include

prepend-path    LD_LIBRARY_PATH         $topdir/lib
prepend-path    LIBRARY_PATH            $topdir/lib
prepend-path    LD_RUN_PATH             $topdir/lib

setenv          BOOST_HOME              $topdir
setenv          BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR       $topdir/include
setenv          BOOST_LIBRARY           $topdir/lib

Use

module load boost/1.63.0_gcc-5.4.0_openmpi-1.8.8-x86_64_cuda-8.0

Author

  • Mateo Gómez Zuluaga