Installation¶

First step to install neXtSIM is to download this repository :

git clone https://github.com/nextsimhub/nextsimdg.git

You will get the main branch of the code, if you need a specific version :

git clone -b v1.0 https://github.com/nextsimhub/nextsimdg.git

Dependencies¶

To compile neXtSIM, you need to install first some libraries :

NetCDF

Boost

CMake

Compilation on MAC OS¶

If your package manager is Homebrew :

brew install netcdf
brew install netcdf-cxx
brew install boost
brew install cmake
brew install eigen

cd nextsimdg
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Compilation on a Debian-based Linux distribution (Debian, Ubuntu, etc)¶

You must have root privilege :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install netcdf-bin libnetcdf-c++4-dev libboost-all-dev cmake libeigen3-dev

cd nextsimdg
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Compilation with dependencies installation via conda¶

Install conda via anaconda or miniconda (no root privileges required)

conda create --name nextsimdg
conda activate nextsimdg
conda install -c conda-forge netcdf-cxx4
conda install -c conda-forge boost
conda install -c anaconda cmake

cd nextsimdg
mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
make