POEMS (Parallelizable Open source Efficient Multibody Software) library

Rudranarayan Mukherjee, RPI mukher at rpi.edu June 2006

This is version 1.0 of the POEMS library, general purpose distributed multibody dynamics software, which is able to simulate the dynamics of articulated body systems.

POEMS is supported by the funding agencies listed in the Grants' List. POEMS is an open source program distributed under the Rensselaer Scorec License.

The Authors as listed in Authors' List reserve the right to reject the request on technical supports of the POEMS freely obtained.

We are open to hear from you about bugs, an idea for improvement, and suggestions, etc. We keep improving the POEMS. Check the POEMS web site (www.rpi.edu/~anderk5/POEMS) for the recent changes.

All correspondence regarding the POEMS should be sent to:

By email: (preferred) Prof. Kurt Anderson (anderk5@rpi.edu) or Rudranarayan Mukherjee (mukher@rpi.edu) - include "[POEMS]" in the subject

or by mail: Prof. Kurt S. Anderson 4006 Jonsson Engineering Center Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180-3510, U.S.A.

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This directory has source files to build a library that LAMMPS links against when using the POEMA package.

This library must be built with a C++ compiler, before LAMMPS is built, so LAMMPS can link against it.

You can type "make lib-poems" from the src directory to see help on how to build this library via make commands, or you can do the same thing by typing "python Install.py" from within this directory, or you can do it manually by following the instructions below.

Build the library using one of the provided Makefile.* files or create your own, specific to your compiler and system. For example:

make -f Makefile.g++

When you are done building this library, two files should exist in this directory:

libpoems.a the library LAMMPS will link against Makefile.lammps settings the LAMMPS Makefile will import

Makefile.lammps is created by the make command, by copying one of the Makefile.lammps.* files. See the EXTRAMAKE setting at the top of the Makefile.* files.

Makefile.lammps has settings for 3 variables:

user-poems_SYSINC = leave blank for this package user-poems_SYSLIB = leave blank for this package user-poems_SYSPATH = leave blank for this package

Because this library does not currently need the additional settings the settings in Makefile.lammps.empty should work.