Compiling and Installing Meep-1.2.1 on CentOS 6 and OpenMPI

Meep (or MEEP) is a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation software package developed at MIT to model electromagnetic systems, along with our MPB eigenmode package. The latest official version is 1.2 and can be found at Download Page for Meep

But there is a Lapack linking problem for 1.2 which is explained in Error when compiling Meep-1.2 on CentOS. It is strongly recommended to use the pre-release Meep 1.2.1 found at http://jdj.mit.edu/~stevenj/meep-1.2.1.tar.gz

Before you compile Meep 1.2.1, you need to first compile the libctl library. Compiling the libctl library is quite straightforward.

Step 1-3: For more information do see Compiling and Installing Meep-1.2.1 on CentOS 6 and OpenMPI (linuxcluster.wordpress.com)

Step 4: Compiling meep-1.2.1

# tar -zxvf meep-1.2.1.tar.gz
# cd meep-1.2.1
#  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/meep-1.2.1 \
--with-libctl=/usr/local/libctl-3.2.1/share/libctl/ \
LDFLAGS=-I/usr/local/libctl-3.2.1/lib \
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/libctl-3.2.1/include \
--with-mpi=/usr/local/openmpi-1.6.5/

References:

1. Undefined reference to `dgetrf_’ error when compiling Meep-1.2 on CentOS
2. crtbegin.o: No such file: No such file or directory Error when compiling Meep-1.2 on CentOS
3. My opinion: Compiling Meep