FDS Compilation with Visual Studio

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.