alex-marinov / mbdyn

MBDyn^©

MBDyn^© is a multibody analysis code.
http://www.mbdyn.org

Copyright^© 1996-2019

Pierangelo Masarati
Paolo Mantegazza

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Aerospaziale - Politecnico di Milano
via La Masa, 34 - 20156 Milano, Italy
http://www.aero.polimi.it

developers:

• see CONTRIBUTING.md in the root directory of the source tree

distribution:

• set build/version to the right number
• # set MBDYN_DEVEL=no in configure.ac
• follow the above instructions
• run ./configure with the desired options
• add version and release date to NEWS
• add version and release notes to CHANGES
• check BUGS
• advance MBDYN_REL_ENG tag after running ./check_cvs.sh
• set MBDYN_REL_ENG_<version> tag
• run make dist && make distcheck
• update https://www.mbdyn.org/ web page
• announce on mailing lists

installation:

• clone the source tree from this repo or download a release from the website
• (if needed) run sh bootstrap.sh to generate configure scripts
• configure the package; ./configure will suffice in most cases, unless you need some of the supported packages and they are not in the standard place
• make the package
• run make install; the command mbdyn and some utilities will be installed in $PREFIX/bin, while some libraries will be put in $PREFIX/lib (PREFIX defaults to /usr/local/mbdyn). Those libraries are neither required to run mbdyn nor the utilities (unless you force the shared build). A bare-bone man page will be installed in $PREFIX/share/man/man1.