SUNDIALS is a SUite of
Nonlinear and DIfferential/ALgebraic equation Solvers. It is useful for many
problems, and is needed to perform sensitivity analysis in Cantera. It can be a
pain to install on Windows, so here is my procedure for installing on Windows 7 x64.
First, download the Windows SDK 7.1 and the SP1 compiler update.
Installation should be a “Next->Next” affair, but if the install fails, The
Mathworks recommends the following steps:
- Uninstall any Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable packages
- Install the SDK again, but uncheck the options for the compiler and the
Visual C++ Redistributable
- Install the compiler update, which will install the compilers
- Reinstall the Visual C++ Redistributable from this link
If you would like to have Visual Studio installed in addition to the SDK, the
instructions here give the proper order to install everything.
Next, download and install CMake from
http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html To properly install SUNDIALS,
CMake 2.8.12.2 is required. Then, download SUNDIALS from
http://computation.llnl.gov/casc/sundials/main.html You will need 7zip to
extract the tarball on Windows, which can be found here: http://www.7-zip.org/
Extract the tarball to the root of the C:\ drive, so you have a folder
C:\sundials-2.5.0. Create new folders called C:\sundials-2.5.0-build and
C:\sundials-2.5.0-install. In the C:\sundials-2.5.0 folder is a file called
CMakeLists.txt. Open that file, and change SET(PACKAGE_STRING "SUNDIALS
2.4.0") to SET(PACKAGE_STRING "SUNDIALS 2.5.0"). Do the same for the line
SET(PACKAGE_VERSION "2.4.0") to SET(PACKAGE_VERSION "2.5.0"). Open the
Windows SDK 7.1 command line interface and build and install SUNDIALS:
cd C:\sundials-2.5.0-build
cmake ..\sundials-2.5.0 -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\sundials-2.5.0-install
nmake install
That should be it - SUNDIALS is now installed in the install directory. Happy solving!