Known issues

On this page we collect known issues/bugs related to t8code

OpenMP and pthreads require setting CXXFLAGS manually

When using --enable-openmp or --enable-pthread you may encounter linking problems with either library.

This is a known bug. The appropriate compiler flags are only set to the CFLAGS variable, but not the CXXFLAGS variable.

Until this is fixed, the workaround is to set these variables manually:

configure --enable-openmp CXXFLAGS="-fopenmp"

See also: https://github.com/holke/t8code/issues/286

Pure g++ installation not possible with gcc >=v8

Using CC=g++ or CC=mpicxx or similar will not configure when the gcc Version is 8 or larger. This particularly concerns Ubuntu 22.04 and beyond.

The behavior is caused by a bug in Autotools regarding the AC_CHECK_LIBRARY macro that causes an error message in the C++ compiler (which previously was only a warning). See the discussion in a closed PR https://github.com/holke/t8code/pull/257 and the Autotools discussion https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04294.html

Compiling with OpenMPI

In some cases, t8code will not compile with OpenMPI and will throw linker errors regarding MPI functionality. If that happens, try using mpiCC or mpic++ instead of mpicc and mpicxx.