Building DAKOTA

Dakota is an optimisation toolkit that we are evaluating as a wrapper for ASCEND simulations, to optimise complex systems. Note that Dakota is in no way a dependency or requirement for running ASCEND.

Since the documentation of Dakota is not updated to Ubuntu 18.04, we have prepared the following concise instructions for getting it up and running on that distro:

Dakota 6.10 on Ubuntu 18.04

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a4c, abap, abc, abnf, actionscript, ada, agda, alan, algol, ampl, amtrix, applescript, arc, arm, as400cl, ascend, asciidoc, asp, aspect, assembler, ats, autohotkey, autoit, avenue, awk, ballerina, bat, bbcode, bcpl, bibtex, biferno, bison, blitzbasic, bms, bnf, boo, c, carbon, ceylon, charmm, chill, chpl, clean, clearbasic, clipper, clojure, clp, cmake, cobol, coffeescript, coldfusion, conf, cpp2, critic, crk, crystal, cs_block_regex, csharp, css, d, dart, delphi, diff, dockerfile, dts, dylan, ebnf, ebnf2, eiffel, elixir, elm, email, erb, erlang, euphoria, exapunks, excel, express, factor, fame, fasm, felix, fish, fortran77, fortran90, frink, fsharp, fstab, fx, gambas, gdb, gdscript, go, graphviz, haml, hare, haskell, haxe, hcl, html, httpd, hugo, icon, idl, idlang, inc_luatex, informix, ini, innosetup, interlis, io, jam, jasmin, java, javascript, js_regex, json, jsp, jsx, julia, kotlin, ldif, less, lhs, lilypond, limbo, lindenscript, lisp, logtalk, lotos, lotus, lua, luban, makefile, maple, markdown, matlab, maya, mercury, meson, miranda, mod2, mod3, modelica, moon, ms, msl, mssql, mxml, n3, nasal, nbc, nemerle, netrexx, nginx, nice, nim, nix, nsis, nxc, oberon, objc, ocaml, octave, oorexx, org, os, oz, paradox, pas, pdf, perl, php, pike, pl1, plperl, plpython, pltcl, po, polygen, pony, pov, powershell, pro, progress, ps, psl, pure, purebasic, purescript, pyrex, python, q, qmake, qml, qu, r, rebol, rego, rexx, rnc, rpg, rpl, rst, ruby, rust, s, sam, sas, scad, scala, scilab, scss, shellscript, slim, small, smalltalk, sml, snmp, snobol, solidity, spec, spn, sql, squirrel, styl, svg, swift, sybase, tcl, tcsh, terraform, tex, toml, tsql, tsx, ttcn3, txt, typescript, upc, vala, vb, verilog, vhd, vimscript, vue, wat, whiley, wren, xml, xpp, yaiff, yaml, yaml_ansible, yang, zig, znn

These steps result in all tests passing.

Note that you have to explicitly write out your installation path in the 'cmake' line, hence -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/john/.local. If you write -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/.local or -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/.local, it doesn't work. This seems like a bug. Assuming you've done this, you can then install dakota using

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a4c, abap, abc, abnf, actionscript, ada, agda, alan, algol, ampl, amtrix, applescript, arc, arm, as400cl, ascend, asciidoc, asp, aspect, assembler, ats, autohotkey, autoit, avenue, awk, ballerina, bat, bbcode, bcpl, bibtex, biferno, bison, blitzbasic, bms, bnf, boo, c, carbon, ceylon, charmm, chill, chpl, clean, clearbasic, clipper, clojure, clp, cmake, cobol, coffeescript, coldfusion, conf, cpp2, critic, crk, crystal, cs_block_regex, csharp, css, d, dart, delphi, diff, dockerfile, dts, dylan, ebnf, ebnf2, eiffel, elixir, elm, email, erb, erlang, euphoria, exapunks, excel, express, factor, fame, fasm, felix, fish, fortran77, fortran90, frink, fsharp, fstab, fx, gambas, gdb, gdscript, go, graphviz, haml, hare, haskell, haxe, hcl, html, httpd, hugo, icon, idl, idlang, inc_luatex, informix, ini, innosetup, interlis, io, jam, jasmin, java, javascript, js_regex, json, jsp, jsx, julia, kotlin, ldif, less, lhs, lilypond, limbo, lindenscript, lisp, logtalk, lotos, lotus, lua, luban, makefile, maple, markdown, matlab, maya, mercury, meson, miranda, mod2, mod3, modelica, moon, ms, msl, mssql, mxml, n3, nasal, nbc, nemerle, netrexx, nginx, nice, nim, nix, nsis, nxc, oberon, objc, ocaml, octave, oorexx, org, os, oz, paradox, pas, pdf, perl, php, pike, pl1, plperl, plpython, pltcl, po, polygen, pony, pov, powershell, pro, progress, ps, psl, pure, purebasic, purescript, pyrex, python, q, qmake, qml, qu, r, rebol, rego, rexx, rnc, rpg, rpl, rst, ruby, rust, s, sam, sas, scad, scala, scilab, scss, shellscript, slim, small, smalltalk, sml, snmp, snobol, solidity, spec, spn, sql, squirrel, styl, svg, swift, sybase, tcl, tcsh, terraform, tex, toml, tsql, tsx, ttcn3, txt, typescript, upc, vala, vb, verilog, vhd, vimscript, vue, wat, whiley, wren, xml, xpp, yaiff, yaml, yaml_ansible, yang, zig, znn

You can add the 'export' line to your ~/.profile if you want it to be available automatically in future login sessions.

Dakota 6.9 on Ubuntu 18.04

Dakota 6.9 built using the same steps as above (for 6.10 on Ubuntu 18.04) results in the following error. The error is resolved by updating to 6.10.s

/home/john/src/dakota-6.9.0.src/packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/src/DiscreteDesignVariableNature.cpp: In function ‘double JEGA::Utilities::relative_difference(double, double)’:
/home/john/src/dakota-6.9.0.src/packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/src/DiscreteDesignVariableNature.cpp:106:13: error: ‘isnan’ is not a member of ‘std’
     if(std::isnan(arg_a) || std::isnan(arg_b)) return max_val;
             ^~~~~
/home/john/src/dakota-6.9.0.src/packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/src/DiscreteDesignVariableNature.cpp:106:34: error: ‘isnan’ is not a member of ‘std’
     if(std::isnan(arg_a) || std::isnan(arg_b)) return max_val;
                                  ^~~~~
/home/john/src/dakota-6.9.0.src/packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/src/DiscreteDesignVariableNature.cpp:109:8: error: ‘fabs’ was not declared in this scope
     if(fabs(arg_b) > max_val)
        ^~~~
/home/john/src/dakota-6.9.0.src/packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/src/DiscreteDesignVariableNature.cpp:109:8: note: suggested alternative: ‘labs’
     if(fabs(arg_b) > max_val)
        ^~~~
        labs
Scanning dependencies of target sandia_cubature_prb
/home/john/src/dakota-6.9.0.src/packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/src/DiscreteDesignVariableNature.cpp:123:13: error: ‘fabs’ was not declared in this scope
     arg_a = fabs(arg_a);
             ^~~~
[ 40%] Building CXX object packages/external/VPISparseGrid/test/CMakeFiles/sandia_rules2_prb.dir/sandia_rules2_prb.cpp.o
/home/john/src/dakota-6.9.0.src/packages/external/JEGA/Utilities/src/DiscreteDesignVariableNature.cpp:123:13: note: suggested alternative: ‘labs’
     arg_a = fabs(arg_a);
             ^~~~
             labs