[CIG-LONG] problem running Gale

[Walter Landry]

"Jia Yulu" <jiayulu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does "crash" mean that the error message is intended? Is it supposed
> to act like this or i did something wrong during installation?

This is the expected result.  You did not do anything wrong.  That is
why it is a developer-only release.

> Where can I get other examples to test the code? 

We do not have any other ready-made examples to test the code.

> How to write my own input files?

Right now, there is no documentation on how to write input files.  The
best that I can suggest is to look through the codebase for .xml
files.  Those are all input files of one sort or another.  In
particular, look in src/Underworld/InputFiles.  Be aware that those
examples may not work.  In particular, the version of Gale you
downloaded does not build gLucifer, a visualisation library used by
some input files.

If you want to look at something that works a little better, check out
the stable_static branch

  svn co http://geodynamics.org/svn/cig/long/3D/Gale/branches/stable_static gale

We are still working on it, so it is not guaranteed to work at any
particular time.  But it has two examples, simple-extension.xml and
sandbox-extension.xml (they are basically the same).  Those should run
forever, although there may be a problem with the timestep going to
zero after a while.  There is also a problem with strain weakening not
quite working.  It also does not have a way to visualize the data.
But at least it does not crash.

If you can wait a few weeks, we plan to make another release which
will have the extension model working completely.  It will also have
better (though not perfect) documentation.

Cheers,
Walter Landry
walter at geodynamics.org