CMS Compilation/Windows

Installation with Visual Studio¶

To obtain the pre-built CMS executable, it can be found here, CMS Releases.

Our team generally uses the following tools for compiling the production release version of CMS.

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (Community version is fine)
• Intel oneAPI Base and HPC kits (2024.1)

Install the three tools in the following order.

1. Install MS Visual Studio 2022 (or 2019)
   • Make sure “Desktop development with C++” is selected at a minimum
2. Install Intel oneAPI Base kit (C++ language only) with Visual Studio integration.
3. Install Intel oneAPI HPC kit (adds Fortran) with Visual Studio integration.

Note: It has been mentioned there may be an Intel oneAPI Fortran only build which may be possibly used but we have not yet tested it.

Settings for Visual Studio

Release Configuration Properties

Project Settings:

Linker | Input - Additional Dependencies

"..\external_libraries\XMDF\xmdf2.2x64.lib"

Linker | System - Stack Reserve Size => 92428800

Fortran | Optimization - Optimization => Maximum Speed plus Higher Level Optimizations

Fortran | Optimization - Global Optimizations => Yes (/Og)

Fortran | Language - Process OpenMP Directives => Generate Parallel Code (/Qopenmp)

Fortran | Floating Point | Floating Point Exception Handling =>

Underflow gives 0.0; Abort on other IEEE exceptions (/fpe:0) (giving problems with ICCG solver) or Produce NaN, signed infinities, and denormal results (more stable for some reason)

Fortran | Run-time - Generate Traceback Information => Yes

Fortran | Run-time - Check Array and Sting Bounds => Yes

Fortran | Run-time - Check Uninitialized Variables => Yes

Fortran | Preprocessor - Preprocess source file => Yes

Fortran | Preprocessor - Additional include directories => ..\source\main\