Compilation

Warning

Using mesher this way (i.e., built from source) will require setting the mesher binary path as described in Environment variables.

Building mesher from source has two parts

  1. compile the backend C++ binary and

  2. setup a python environment for the python frontend.

Setup the build environment as described on the install page

Clone repo

An out of source build is recommended. For example:

cd ~/
git clone https://github.com/Chrismarsh/mesher.
mkdir ~/build && cd ~/build

Python packages

setuptools
wheel
conan
scikit-build>=0.11.1
ninja
vtk
pygdal-chm=="`gdal-config --version`.*"
numpy
scipy
matplotlib
cloudpickle
metis

(Optional) Conan dependencies

Optionally mesher’s dependencies can be build using conan for dependency management.

All of the mesher dependencies are built on Github-CI and uploaded to the bintray repository to serve prebuilt binaries. This means that if the mesher build is done with supported compilers and operating system (described later), the dependencies do not need to be built by the end user.

Warning

The python gdal bindings uses a system-wide gdal rather than the conan gdal the mesher C++ backend links against. This will hopefully be resolved in the future. However, as no data passes between the C++ and Python, having different gdal versions poses no problem.

Warning

Conan and conda don’t seem to consistently work. Use at your own risk.

Setup Conan as described on the installation page.

Install the dependencies into your local conan cache (~/.conan/data)

cd ~/build #if you have not already
conan install ~/mesher -if=. --build missing

The -if=. will produce the FindXXX.cmake files required for the mesher build in the current directory, building missing as needed.

Build

You can set the install prefix to be anywhere, such as shown in the example below

cmake ~/mesher -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/mesher

if you’re using conan,

cmake ~/mesher -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/mesher -DUSE_CONAN=True

then

make install

What to do if things aren’t working

On Macos, homebrew tends to update often. Thus, python packages that are installed against homebrew libraries may break in interesting ways. The most common issue is that the pygdal package hasn’t been update for the newest version of gdal in homebrew. This will manifest as an error like gdal 2.3.4 != gdal 3.2.1 . Unfortunately there is not much that can be until pygdal gets updated. It is best to open an issue either on the mesher or nextgis/pygdal githubs.

If there is an install error about gdal-config missing, please ensure that gdal is installed from your package manager and is available on the path. Running gdal-config --version should produce output

Deployment

Notes for how to deploy to Pypi:

pip install scikit-build
pip install twine
pip install wheel

python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
twine upload  dist/*

Note that version number needs to be incremented for each Pypi upload