STEP-1
Example 1 for DEALII

STEP-1 is the first example from the official DEAL.II example directory. It is included here primarily to illustrate the steps necessary to run a program that uses DEAL.II.

Before doing anything with deal.ii on a Macintosh running OSX, you have to:

1. Download and install cmake;
2. Modify your .bash_profile by including the line

               PATH=/Applications/Cmake.app/Contents/bi:${PATH}
             

3. Download and install deal.ii

Then you might want to try running an example. DEAL.II has an examples directory, and the first example is in the step-1 subdirectory. I would recommend making your own working directory, and copying from the examples/step-1 directory the following two files

• CMakeLists.txt
• step-1.cc

Now in that directory, you need to create, one time, the necessary makefile, by issuing a command something like:

        cmake -DDEAL_II_DIR=/Applications/deal.II.app/Contents/Resources .
      

If all goes well, then you can run the step-1 example by

        make run
      

Files you might find useful:

• CMakeLists.txt, the file needed by cmake on my system.
• step-1.cc, the source code for the example.
• step-1.sh, a shell script which contains the commands to create the makefile and run the example.
• grid-1.eps, the PostScript image of mesh 1.
• grid-1.png, the PNG image of mesh 1.
• grid-2.eps, the PostScript image of mesh 2.
• grid-2.png, the PNG image of mesh 2.

You can go up one level to the DEALII directory.