Getting started
The following is tried out with csh on Linux, on other systems details may differ. There are makefiles for various other machines included with the worked examples. Moving it to different operating systems essentially requires that the makefiles need to be modified for the different compilers etc.
The Maple code that is downloaded here should work immediately with Maple 9. It can be also be used with Maple 7 or 8.
- Download the directory
femLego_distusing the download link to the left and place it in a convenient location in your home directory. - If you do not have a
.mapleinitfile in your$HOME, copyfemLego_dist/.mapleinitto your$HOME. Otherwise, add the contents offemLego_dist/.mapleinitto the existing$HOME/.mapleinitfile. - Find out if a compiled version
of the linear algebra library SLAP exists on the system. Otherwise,
compile it using makefiles in
femLego_dist/SLAP2.0, and put the resulting .a file in a convenient place, such as $HOME/lib. - Set the unix environment
variable
SLAP_LIBto the path for the directory where the SLAP library (i.e.libslap.a) is located, as determined above. This is preferably done by entering the line
setenv SLAP_LIB <actual path>
in your$HOME/.cshrc - If necssary load Maple,
typically by typing
module add maple
or something similar depending on the local system. - Go to
femLego_dist/little_example. Open the fileexample.mwsin Maple by typing
xmaple example.mws &
and execute it step by step, following instructions and comments there. This directory, as well as the other examples infemLego_dist,can be used as a template for new problems.
