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I have tested this on cygwin code with WRF v4.0.2 and a few other changes to try to stop the registry code from crashing. I will likely submit those changes as a separate PR.
It was crashing when it tried to build this because it couldn't find the code. I couldn't either, so I told it to stop trying.
It was a copy of the CYGWIN_NT configuration, instead of using "x86_64-w64-mingw32-gfortran" and friends as compilers. There are probably other problems, so I'm removing this instead of correcting the compiler executables.
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uname gives result CYGWIN_NT-10.0. I could change that, but I'm not sure when the "10.0" part changes.
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The -o option trims the "10.0" and changes the string from "CYGWIN_NT" to "Cygwin"?
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@DWesl @mgduda @MiCurry First, I checked, and this is using the develop branch as a base, and you are targeting the develop branch - both what we want with this type of PR. I would like to see this PR re-done (only 7 files, so not too arduous). Keep this PR active for reference, but make a new one. The new PR will be assembled from very specific commits, in specific order. If you have troubles at any step, clean it up before the actual commit is made to your branch. Before each of the specific commits, a full test build of the WRF code on a non-CYGWIN machine will be required (clean -a, configure, compile), and a heavier duty test case than SCM. Take a look at: Here are the commits. Again, with each of these proposed commits, conduct the 6 tests (serial and MPI for each of ARW, NMM, and Chem) and the comparisons (the serial vs MPI for each of the 3 builds). When everything is OK, put that commit on your branch.
We will likely need the mods in step 3 to also be put into other I/O libs, or we need a build time check that says "we can't use xxxxx" with CYGWIN. It seems that step 5 may require an additional IF test to determine if we are using Linux of CYGWIN, if there are troubles with the hdf5 library. Before starting on these tasks, let's get all of the software engineers to sign off on this initial proposed set of steps. |
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On 5/16/2019 6:52 PM, Dave Gill wrote:
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# If the user asked for classic netcdf, acquiesce to the request.
-if [ "`uname`" = "Linux" ] ; then
+if [ "`uname`" = "Linux" -o "`uname -o`" = "Cygwin" ] ; then
The -o option trims the "10.0" and changes the string from "CYGWIN_NT"
to "Cygwin"?
$ uname
CYGWIN_NT-10.0
$ uname -o
Cygwin
I could change it to "CYGWIN_NT-10.0", but "Cygwin" seems like it would
be around longer, plus it looks more like "Linux". I have no strong
preference either way.
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On 5/16/2019 6:45 PM, Dave Gill wrote:
Anything that changes the build system needs to be thoroughly vetted, so
be patient. Lets iterate back and forth.
Definitely.
First, I checked, and this is using the develop branch as a base, and
you are targeting the develop branch - both what we want with this type
of PR.
That's a good start.
I would like to see this PR re-done (only 7 files, so not too arduous).
Keep this PR active for reference, but make a new one. The new PR will
be assembled from very specific commits, in specific order. If you have
troubles at any step, clean it up before the actual commit is made to
your branch.
I can do that
Before each of the specific commits, a full test build of the WRF code
on a non-CYGWIN machine will be required (clean -a, configure, compile),
and a heavier duty test case than SCM. Take a look at:
https://github.com/davegill/wrf-coop/blob/master/README.md#with-the-second-image-build-three-containers
We want you to run ARW, NMM, and Chemistry builds, and one test case for
each. For each of these test cases, we need serial and MPI, and a
comparison of the results demonstrating bit-for-bit identical results.
To check bit-for-bit reproducability, that would be:
clean, configure, compile, run
cp output.nc old_output.nc
make changes
clean, configure, compile, run
diff output.nc old_output.nc && echo good
or did you have something else in mind? Would I also need to check the
nesting options, or should that be orthogonal to the changes considered
here?
You will swap in your github repository in the Dockerfile. At each step,
the non-CYGWIN results are to be maintained. After the last commit, the
CYGWIN results should also work (of course, unavailable from inside a
docker container). A single GNU compiler will suffice (handled inside of
the docker container).
This will be a tad harder. It would be much more straightforward for me
to do this without Docker. I may be able to get docker on WSL, but I
haven't checked that.
Here are the commits. Again, with each of these proposed commits,
conduct the 6 tests (serial and MPI for each of ARW, NMM, and Chem) and
the comparisons (the serial vs MPI for each of the 3 builds). When
everything is OK, put that commit on your branch.
ARW-Chem or NMM-Chem? Is it only possible to do ARW-Chem?
On a related note, why not exercise the Chemistry code at the same time
as the dynamical cores? Ease of debugging?
Would the Chem test need to include every bit of chemistry I can find,
or would the WRF-GHG configuration be sufficient?
1. Change the preamble, postamble, and configure.defaults files
2. Change configure (check syntax question)
3. Change external/io_netcdf/makefile (check syntax question)
4. Change tools/Makefile - explain in the PR comment what is peflags
5. Change Config.pl
This is straightforward.
peflags modifies the headers in a Windows-format executable, in this
case to reserve extra space for the stack.
https://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html
It is at least somewhat related to the "-mcmodel=medium" family of options.
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-7.4.0/gcc/x86-Options.html#index-mcmodel_003dmedium-1
We will likely need the mods in #3
to also be put into other I/O libs, or we need a build time check that
says "we can't use xxxxx" with CYGWIN.
The link line is exactly the same, just the name of the relevant file is
different. I could grep through the code for any mentions of ".so",
".dylib", ".a", ".lib", or ".dll" and add similar changes to all of those.
The only place I'm seeing that might need adjustment is
external/io_grib_share/build/{library,tcl_script}_rules.mk
so I'll look into making sure I can get grib and grib2 output.
There's also
chem/KPP/kpp/kpp-2.1/int/oldies/ros3.c
but I don't think there's any reason to update the `ldd` output in that
file.
It seems that #5
may require an additional IF test to determine if we are using Linux of
CYGWIN, if there are troubles with the hdf5 library.
It appears that `libhdf5_fortran` is available in upstream HDF5 sources
but was not built for Cygwin. In that case, I can compile my own
version with both thread-safety and the fortran code, then build against
that. If it works, I can suggest the changes to the Cygwin maintainer
My understanding was that `libnetcdff` uses only code available in
`libnetcdf`, which depends on `libhdf5` and possibly `libhdf5_hl`, so we
might be able to drop this requirement entirely.
To exercise this branch I should be making very sure NetCDF4 output
works. Is there other HDF5-based output I should be including in this test?
Before starting on these tasks, let's get all of the software engineers
to sign off on this initial proposed set of steps.
Good plan.
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I couldn't find any way to generate an external/wavelet/libWavelet.a, so I removed that link here and did not add it for the Cygwin link line. If that archive was moved somewhere rather than removed, I should change these to point to the new location.
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This wavelet library looks to be part of the data assimilation. It is located in var/external.
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On 6/2/2019 12:00 PM, Dave Gill wrote:
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CC_TOOLS = $(SCC)
LIB_EXTERNAL = \
- ../external/io_netcdf/libwrfio_nf.a CONFIGURE_NETCDF_PATH/lib/libnetcdf.lib \
- ../external/wavelet/libWavelet.a ../external/wavelet/lib_wavelet.a
This wavelet library looks to be part of the data assimilation. It is
located in var/external.
Okay. I can update that location. Should I do that just for Cygwin, or
everywhere I can find it?
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/usr/bin/peflags.exe is where it is on cygwin, and that's the only place we need it, so make sure we're using that one.
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I reorganized the commits as requested; the result is #1003. |
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TYPE: enhancement KEYWORDS: compilation, cygwin, new platform, build system SOURCE: Daniel Wesloh (The Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science) DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES: The WRF compilation script did not support compiling on Cygwin. #911 added support for that compilation, and generated feedback to ensure those changes did not break compilation on other platforms. This PR incorporates those suggestions and the changes required by them. I moved the `LIB_BUNDLED` and `LIB_EXTERNAL` default definitions from the `configure.wrf` postamble to the preamble so I could override them in `configure.defaults` on non-Windows platforms. This required copying the processing of the postamble in `arch/Config.pl` to where it processed the preamble so that the variables used in the definitions of `LIB_BUNDLED` and `LIB_EXTERNAL` would still be substituded. One additional change was necessary: the system version of libjasper on cygwin is recent enough that `struct jas_image_t` has no `inmem_` member, so that the reference to `inmem_` must be commented out for Grib2 support to work. I did not include that change here as that is related to the version of the Jasper library on all platforms, not just cygwin. Dependency versions for current test: ```bash $ cygcheck -c cygwin gcc-core gcc-fortran libnetcdf-devel libnetcdf-fortran-devel openmpi libjasper-devel perl tcsh libhdf5-devel libopenmpi-devel openmpi $(cygcheck -cd | awk $'/libnetcdf[0-9]/ {print $1;}\n/libhdf5_[0-9]/ {print $1;}\n/libopenmpiusef08_[0-9]/ {print $1;}\n/libgomp[0-9]/ {print $1;}\n/libgfortran[0-9]/ {print $1;}\n/libjasper[0-9]/ {print $1;}\n/libnetcdf-fortran_[0-9]/ {print $1;}') Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status cygwin 3.1.2-1 OK gcc-core 9.2.0-1 OK gcc-fortran 9.2.0-1 OK libgfortran3 6.4.0-5 OK libgfortran4 7.4.0-1 OK libgfortran5 9.2.0-1 OK libgomp1 9.2.0-1 OK libhdf5-devel 1.10.6-1 OK libhdf5_10 1.8.20-1 OK libhdf5_101 1.10.2-1 OK libhdf5_103 1.10.6-1 OK libjasper-devel 2.0.14-1 OK libjasper1 1.900.22-1 OK libjasper4 2.0.14-1 OK libnetcdf-devel 4.7.3-1 OK libnetcdf-fortran-devel 4.5.2-1.1 OK libnetcdf-fortran_6 4.4.4-3 OK libnetcdf-fortran_7 4.5.2-1.1 OK libnetcdf11 4.4.1.1-1 OK libnetcdf13 4.6.1-2 OK libnetcdf15 4.7.3-1 OK libopenmpi-devel 3.1.5-1 OK libopenmpiusef08_11 1.10.7-1 OK libopenmpiusef08_40 3.1.5-1 OK openmpi 3.1.5-1 OK perl 5.26.3-2 OK tcsh 6.22.01-1 OK ``` ISSUE: Replaces #911 LIST OF MODIFIED FILES: M README M arch/Config.pl M arch/configure.defaults M arch/postamble M arch/preamble M configure M doc/README.cygwin.md M external/io_netcdf/makefile M tools/Makefile TESTS CONDUCTED: I used the script at https://github.com/davegill/wrf-coop/blob/master/build.csh to build and run WRF-ARW, WRF-NMM, and WRF-Chem on Windows Subsystem for Linux (debian) and on Cygwin. The build script does not consistently work, but running the indicated commands manually usually works fine. A regression test on LInux is successful, but an intermediate branch was required to circumvent a broken develop branch (from which this is based). ``` WRF NUMBER OF TILES = 1 No land surface physics option is used: sf_surface_physics = 0 Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:04 on domain 2: 1.12292 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:08 on domain 2: 0.91971 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:12 on domain 2: 0.91965 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:12 on domain 1: 6.95076 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:16 on domain 2: 0.92157 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:20 on domain 2: 0.92541 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:24 on domain 2: 0.92848 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:24 on domain 1: 3.92829 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:28 on domain 2: 0.93069 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:32 on domain 2: 0.93314 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:36 on domain 2: 0.93447 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:36 on domain 1: 3.95087 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:40 on domain 2: 0.94396 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:44 on domain 2: 0.93751 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:48 on domain 2: 0.93741 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:48 on domain 1: 3.97565 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:52 on domain 2: 0.93471 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:00:56 on domain 2: 0.93481 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:01:00 on domain 2: 0.93528 elapsed seconds Timing for Writing wrfout_d02_0001-01-01_00:01:00 for domain 2: 0.03285 elapsed seconds Timing for main: time 0001-01-01_00:01:00 on domain 1: 3.99505 elapsed seconds Timing for Writing wrfout_d01_0001-01-01_00:01:00 for domain 1: 0.03183 elapsed seconds d01 0001-01-01_00:01:00 wrf: SUCCESS COMPLETE WRF ``` RELEASE NOTE: Introduce a Windows-based WRF build and run via the free Unix-like CYGWIN environment.
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TYPE: enhancement
KEYWORDS: cygwin, compiler, configure, library search path
SOURCE: DWesl (PSU)
DESCRIPTION OF CHANGES:
The build configury did not understand the cygwin platform. Since the platform is similar to Linux and BSD, it was relatively straightforward to add support.
I had to move some settings from the postamble to the preamble for the settings in configure.defaults to be honored. I also had to allow a larger stack in the registry for that program not to crash.
Some libraries appear to have different names on Cygwin and on Linux, in particular, I cannot find a libhdf5_fortran, but libhdf5_hl appears to work just fine. I have no idea if these are fully interchangeable on Linux.
I could not find code for libwavelet, so I removed that library from LIB_EXTERNAL
LIST OF MODIFIED FILES:
arch/Config.pl
arch/configure.defaults
arch/postamble
arch/preamble
configure
external/io_netcdf/makefile
tools/Makefile
TESTS CONDUCTED:
I succeeded in compiling and running the em_scm_xy case on Cygwin.