[Users] Problem installation Einstein Toolkit

[Elena Luisa Goria]

Thank you very much, following your suggestion I succeeded to compile it.
Best regards,
Elena

> Il giorno 26 ago 2024, alle ore 19:35, Roland Haas <rhaas at illinois.edu> ha scritto:
> 
> Hello Elena,
> 
>> Thank you for answering. I still have problems. This is the output of
>> the compilation before the error:
> 
> Thanks for including the log file. 
> 
> The error show there is 
> 
> --8<--
> ld: library not found for -lsz
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> --8<--
> 
> indicating that the linker did not find the libsz library file. This
> library is used by HDF5. 
> 
> The log file does not quite contain enough information to let me know
> which HDF5 was used. For that it would have to be a log file form a
> fresh compilation, eg after removing the `configs` directory using
> 
> rm -rf configs
> 
> Looking at the Option list (and the paths in the error messages) this
> seems to be a macOS laptop using macports, yes?
> 
> In that case the first thing to check would be that you have installed
> the packages listed under the "Prerequisites" section in
> 
> https://github.com/einsteintoolkit/jupyter-et/blob/master/tutorial-server/notebooks/CactusTutorial.ipynb
> 
> Which will install a copy of hdf5 from macports.
> 
> Though, having just tested this on my own macbook (Sonoma 14.6.1,
> newest XCode and macports) I get the same error. So let's see...
> 
> Ok, there's a libsz in 
> 
> /opt/local/lib/libaec/lib/
> 
> which (one way, not the best but should do for now until I can update
> the instructions more properly) can be made available by doing
> 
> ```
> export LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib/libaec/lib
> ```
> 
> before running `sim build`.
> 
> With this I still get some warnings that are however harmless and I can
> run the resulting executable. Eg
> 
> ```
> ./exe/cactus_sim -T
> ```
> 
> which will output a (long) list of all compiled in thorns.
> 
> Yours,
> Roland
> 
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