Installing DMTCP

Prerequisites

On debian, you need to install some prerequisties:

sudo apt install git gcc g++ make -y

And install python3 if you need the tests:

sudo apt install python3 -y

Build instructions

To build, use:

  ./configure
  make
  # [Optional]
  make check

As usual, you may prefer to use make with '-j' for faster, parallel builds.

This software runs in the original directory, and

  make install

will install to the install directory based on configure.

Distribution packages for Debian/Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and Fedora are available in their respective repositories.

Multilib support

To support multilib (mixed use of 32- and 64-bit applications), there are two possibilities:

1. Install both the 32- and 64-bit versions of DMTCP packages for your distro. OR:
2. Build from source:

     ./configure
     make
     # Do NOT do 'make clean' here.  You will lose bin/dmtcp_launch, etc.
     ./configure --enable-m32
     make clean   # This won't remove the 64-bit binary and library files.
     make
     # Optionally, change 'make' to 'make install'' if desired.
   

When running DMTCP with multilib support, the 64-bit applications, dmtcp_launch, dmtcp_restart, and dmtcp_command all inter-operate with both 32- and 64-bit applications.

If your process will create multiple processes, you should use standard DMTCP. A brief overview follows. The general methodology is:

  ./dmtcp_coordinator #in one window: type h to the coordinator to see commands
  ./dmtcp_launch a.out <args,...>

Note that files /tmp/${USER}/dmtcp-${USER}@${HOST}/jassertlog.* are created with debugging information if you configured with --enable-debug. See ./configure --help for that and other options.

See the file QUICK-START.md for further information on using DMTCP.

Running without a separate coordinator process:

Usually, the most convenient procedure is to use DMTCP in its default mode, which includes a separate DMTCP coordinator process. In some rare cases, you may wish to avoid a separate coordinator process by providing a --no-coordinator flag to dmtcp_launch. Multiprocess computations are not supported with this flag.