Hi Elizabeth, On 09-01-16 05:00, Elizabeth Fischer wrote:
> So circling back... suppose I have EasyBuild (or Spack) and I want to > develop software with CMake? What is the recommended way to do that? > What is the recommended way for the two systems to work together > (EasyBuild providing recursive dependency management, and CMake > providing cross-platform compatibility)? How does one write CMake > scripts that can be used with or without help from EasyBuild? My workflow for developing is to load all the modules that I require (the modules are created and installed by EasyBuild) and then use Lmod's save/restore function to 'save' the environment I want. After this, I can just use CMake. You might have to define some variables for CMake that are also set in the CMakeMake block: CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH, CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH, CMAKE_C_FLAGS, etc but that's easy using the $EBROOTXXXX variables. If I want to do calculations with the software, I just 'restore' the environment in my job file. An alternative to the Lmod collection is to use the Bundle easyblock. This has the added advantage that you get a 'devel' module in the install directory (under the 'easybuild' directory). This contains all the env variables that EB would set. I hope that helps you somewhat. Ward
