freesteam

Introduction

migration of freesteam a free implementation of IAPWS-IF97 thermalphysical propeties for water and steam from sourceforge to github, to make it compatible with modern Linux system.

Original repo at sourceforge: http://freesteam.sourceforge.net/

Credit goes to the original authors: John Pye, etc

License: GPL as original release

Overview of the features

on the latest sourceforge version 2.1 (released in 2013)

Readme of sourceforge

• qt4 and gtk2.0 are general not available on modern system
• scons build system provided by the authors
• python wrapping using swig >=2.0
• cross-platform building and packaging: macosx PackageMaker and windows msvc and NSIS, linux RPM

used in OpenFOAM

water steam properties used by OpenFOAm wiki: https://github.com/romansCode/IAPWS-IF97-OF

This repository is also outdated, will not compiled on modern C++11 compiler and latest OpenFOAM versions.

Code_Saturne using another open source software. EOS ??

Migration work

Top up

• move all source into src folder, this will break scons build system
• cmake building system setup
• deb package generation by cmake

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 64bit

Todo

• gtk2.0 will not upgrade to gtk4.0, no such expertise
• qt4 to qt5 or qt6, wait until there is such a requirement
• RPM spec
• cross-platform packaging, invite contribution, describing how GSL installation

CMake support

cmake is now supported to compile the C shared library and build swig python module.

cd freesteam
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
#install 

version definition: version jumps from 2.1 to 3.0 to indicating building system change

#define FREESTEAM_VERSION "@VERSION@"

config.h.in it is compatible with cmake configure_file command

steam_uv.c seems has not yet completed, is excluded from compiling

ascend is not yet compiled, what is that?

RPM packaging spec file

freestream.spec.in

cmake should be enable to use this template, todo!

package-config file to assist compiling in other platforms

freestream-config.in

this configuration is generated by python script

swig to generate python wrapping

cmake setup added