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\