Friday, 17 August 2018

Installing and linking FFTW3 to VASP5.2 and other Codes

Installation of FFTW3 and linking it to compile a scientific code such as VASP5.2 seems to be difficult for newbies. However, it is very simple.

Go to FFTW3 download page (official website).

Download the package. Current version is fftw-3.3.8

Move the file to the specific directory, where you want to install (for example, ~/ScientificPackages)

Follow this procedure to intall.

Unpack the package using tar -xzvf fftw-3.3.8 (to know more on extracting, see this page)

./configure
make
make install

This will create two directories /lib and /include. These directories have necessary library files.

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