Dependencies and documentation

[mjafin]

Hi there,
Many thanks for releasing gossamer to the community. I had a few issues trying to use it, namely the documentation is quite sparse and in a typical HPC environment the dependencies are quite restricting. We use CentOS6 and e.g. libboost is 1.41.0 so gossamer won't compile.

Any chance you could release precompiled binaries compiled on older servers? Like what bioconda are doing, http://bioconda.github.io/

[axman6]

@Deguerre Any thoughts on this?

[Deguerre]

First step is to implement a statically-linked target. Happy to do that, but it probably won't get done before Christmas.

[mjafin]

Thanks for the comments - will the statically linked target still depend on quite a new libc though if you compile it on Ubuntu 16?

[Deguerre]

No, that won't be an issue. The problem is the C++ ABI, which only affects C++ libraries, which libc is not.

[Sinan81]

A coworker of mine successfully compiled gossamer on Centos6. I believe the key to the successful compilations was using boost 1.55 compiled with extra required libraries as discussed in http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

Apart from that our set up is:
cmake v 3.10
gcc 7.2