FDS Compilation with Visual Studio - firemodels/fds GitHub Wiki

These are notes for setting up a Visual Studio project on a Windows computer to build fds. This is a work in progress - not complete ie not working yet.

Preliminaries

username is your name (gforney in my case) in the following notes

Download and install Visual Studio
Download and install the Base and HPC oneAPI toolkits
Clone the fds repo

Creating an FDS project

Open Visual Studio, select Create a New Project button
Scroll down and select Empty Project with Fortran Windows Desktop listed. Then click on Next
Name project fds in location C:\users\username\fds_build
Click on Place solution and project in the same directory checkbox
Click Create
Select Project>Add Existing Item menu item and select fds source files in the fds repo at fds\Source

Configuring the FDS project

Select Project>Properties menu item
Select Fortran>Preprocessor tab and set Preprocess Source File to Yes . Then select Apply
Select Fortran>General tab and set Additional Include Directories to the oneAPI mpi include file locations which on my computer is

C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\mpi\latest\include\mpi

Select Linker>General tab and set Additional Library Directories to the oneAPI mpi library location which on my computer (and probably your) is

C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\oneAPI\mpi\latest\lib\mpi\debug

Select Linker>Input tab and set Additional Dependencies to impi.lib
Select Linker>System tab and set SubSystem to Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE)

Building FDS

Select the Build>Build fds menu item

Running FDS

Select the Configuration Properties>Debugging tab
Set Working Directory to the directory containing your input file
Set Command Arguments to the name of the input file
Select Debug>Start Debugging menu item. Your case should start running now.