Difficulties installing SolTrace on Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm)

[Gablegritule]

Hi :)

I have encountered some difficulties installing SolTrace on Debian GNU/Linux 12 (Bookworm) - 64 bit - Gnome. As this is the first time I have compiled a program from source code, I would appreciate some help.
Indeed, it turned out that readme and wiki give different indications, both of which seem more or less outdated. Nevertheless, I think I am almost there. Here is my path.

Step 0: Prerequisites

gcc --version
    gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0
ldd --version
    ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.36-9+deb12u9) 2.36
sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake libgtk2.0-dev libgl1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev freeglut3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Comment: g++ is a dependency of build-essential

Step 1: Install wxWidgets

sudo apt-get install libwxbase3.2-1 libwxgtk3.2-1 libwxgtk3.2-dev wx3.2-headers wx-common
wx-config --cflags
    -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/wx/include/gtk3-unicode-3.2 -I/usr/include/wx-3.2 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DWXUSINGDLL -D__WXGTK__ -pthread

Step 2: Clone the SolTrace code repository

mkdir /home/gabriel/st_dev
cd /home/gabriel/st_dev
for repo in lk wex SolTrace ; do git clone https://github.com/nrel/$repo ; done

Step 3: Set Environment Variables

export LKDIR="/home/gabriel/st_dev/lk/"
export WEXDIR="/home/gabriel/st_dev/wex/"

Step 4: Install LK, WEX and SolTrace

Here, I have used 'cmake' instead of 'make' (as written in the readme, contrary to the wiki)

cd /home/gabriel/st_dev/lk
cmake /home/gabriel/st_dev/lk
cd /home/gabriel/st_dev/wex
cmake /home/gabriel/st_dev/wex
cd /home/gabriel/st_dev/SolTrace/coretrace
cmake /home/gabriel/st_dev/SolTrace/coretrace

Before to build 'app', I modified the path of wxWidgets in its CMakeLists.txt:

• initial config: set(wxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE /usr/local/bin/wx-config-3)
• modified config: set(wxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE /usr/bin/wx-config)

cd /home/gabriel/st_dev/SolTrace/app
cmake /home/gabriel/st_dev/SolTrace/app

Step 5: Run the application

Following the wiki

The path and application indicated by the wiki do not exist.

Following the readme

cd /home/gabriel/st_dev/
mv /home/gabriel/st_dev/SolTrace/parent-dir-CMakeLists.txt /home/gabriel/st_dev/CMakeLists.txt
mkdir /home/gabriel/st_dev/build-soltrace
cd /home/gabriel/st_dev/build-soltrace

Before to build, I modified the CMakeLists.txt:

• initial config: add_subdirectory(soltrace)
• modified config: add_subdirectory(SolTrace)

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES="Debug;Release" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=10.0 -DSAM_SKIP_TOOLS=1 ..

Results

The procedure is now complete (without error), but I did not get any files to run anywhere in the folder tree. What did I miss?

[benjaminpillot]

Hi, I'll share here a successful steb-by-step Ubuntu (24.04) installation. Hope this might help !

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Step 0

gcc --version
    gcc (Debian 12.2.0-14) 12.2.0
ldd --version
    ldd (Debian GLIBC 2.36-9+deb12u9) 2.36
sudo apt-get install git build-essential cmake libgtk2.0-dev libgl1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev freeglut3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Step 1

Build wxWidgets 3.2.4 against GTK (see the wxWidgets manual for GTK) :

$ mkdir buildgtk
$ cd buildgtk
$ ../configure --with-gtk
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ sudo ldconfig

Create a symbolic link /usr/local/bin/wx-config-3 that points toward /usr/local/bin/wx-config

Step 2 : clone the SolTrace code repo

mkdir ~/st_dev/
cd ~/st_dev/
for repo in lk wex SolTrace; do git clone https://github.com/NREL/$repo; done
mv SolTrace/parent-dir-CMakeLists.txt CMakeLists.txt

(in the CmakeLists.txt file, modify folrder's name from soltrace to SolTrace)

Step 3 : build SolTrace

Before running this step, check if GUI construction is off in the ~/st_dev/SolTrace/CMakeLists.txt file. Modify to on accordingly so that ~/st_dev/build-soltrace/SolTrace/app/SolTrace actually builds.

mkdir build-soltrace
cd build-soltrace/
export LKDIR="~/st_dev/lk"
export WEXDIR="~/st_dev/wex"
export LDFLAGS="-Wl,--copy-dt-needed-entries"
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES="Debug;Release" -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION=10.0 -DSAM_SKIP_TOOLS=1 ..
make
sudo make install
mkdir ~/st_dev/SolTrace/app/deploy/bin
cp ~/st_dev/build-soltrace/SolTrace/app/SolTrace ~/st_dev/SolTrace/app/deploy/bin
sudo ln -s ~/st_dev/SolTrace/app/deploy/bin/SolTrace /usr/local/bin/soltrace

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Step 4 : call soltrace

Finally, call soltrace from anywhere in a terminal.