Building and testing using examples

How to build the libraries, tests, and examples, run the tests, and verify the results

In a nutshell

RTE+RRTMGP uses CMake. To generate a configuration using the ninja build system: cmake -S . -B build -G "Ninja" \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \ -DBUILD_TESTING=ON

To build the code once a configuation has been generated: cmake --build build

To run the examples and tests and check the results: ctest --test-dir build

Evaluating the results of the tests requires Python and the packages described in environment*.yml.

See also possible values of compiler flags.

Building and testing using (Gnu) autotools

Sergey Kosukhin and his colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology maintain the autoconf branch which adds Gnu autotools building to main branch.

Supplying data

Data files needed for RRTMGP are available via a data repository or as a Zenodo archive.

ctest fetches a specific version of this data for running the tests and examples.