Firedrake notes

Notes on installing firedrake via the guide: https://www.firedrakeproject.org/firedrake/install.html

This worked on Homebreak on macOS. Note I operated on my home directory but probably a bad idea compared to operating within a distinct directory.

Download the utility: 

  1. curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake/master/scripts/firedrake-configure

Using the complex-variable version: 

  1. python3 firedrake-configure --show-system-packages --arch complex

Install the homebrew packages: 

  1. brew install $(python3 firedrake-configure --show-system-packages)
  1. git clone --depth 1 --branch $(python3 firedrake-configure --show-petsc-version) https://gitlab.com/petsc/petsc.git
  2. cd petsc

Run PETSC config 

  1. python3 ../firedrake-configure --show-petsc-configure-options | xargs -L1 ./configure

Compile PETSC config. Note replace the directory with yours 

  1. make PETSC_DIR=/Users/me/petsc PETSC_ARCH=arch-firedrake-default all

Check 

  1. make check
  2. cd ..

Create virtual environment 

  1. python3 -m venv venv-firedrake
  2. source venv-firedrake/bin/activate

Export environmental variables: 

  1. export $(python3 firedrake-configure --show-env)

Install 

  1. pip install --no-binary h5py "firedrake @ git+https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake.git#[test]"

Run the check 

  1. firedrake-check

Exploring Firedrake using jupyter

Documentation is taken from here: https://www.firedrakeproject.org/firedrake/notebooks.html

Make sure you're working within the firedrake virtual environment: 

  1. python3 -m venv venv-firedrake
  2. source venv-firedrake/bin/activate

Install Jupyter 

  1. python3 -m pip install jupyter

For some reason, when I did this previously, the import firedrake command did not work in Jupyter. I quit Jupyter, tried 

  1. python3 -m pip install firedrake

and this seemed to do the trick, after re-starting the kernel.