blueCFD-Core 2016-1 (64-bit) Installer now available

Following the initial source code release a week ago, the very first installer for the next generation of blueCFD-Core is available as of today!

Released elements are:

• blueCFD-Core-2016-1-win64-setup.exe
  • blueCFD-Core 2016-1 provides MSys2, OpenFOAM 4.x and ParaView 5.1.2.
  • 710 MiB installer, SHA1: 4ba23f6757ccdfd041f2e2627daee7b947f41195

• The Release Notes page has been updated for this release.

• The About page has been added, which details Mission Statement, Vision and History of this project.

The source code provided for the port of OpenFOAM 4.x has been updated here.

As mentioned above, the development infrastructure is based on MSys2 and instructions for developing in a clean installation of MSys2 will be provided at openfoamwiki.net, after we have finalized the release of blueCFD-Core 2016-1.

Among the list of pending items to be released include:

• Bringing the documentation from blueCFD-Core 2.3-1 to the User Guides page
• Updated FAQ page
• Port of the latest OpenFOAM 3.0.x
• Port of the latest OpenFOAM 2.3.x
• Port of foam-extend, within the same infrastructure
• swak4Foam, PyFoam and other community projects

blueCFD-Core 2016-1 heralds new release policy

The source code for the next generation of blueCFD-Core have started to be released today. Released elements are:

• New project website: https://bluecfd.github.io/Core/

• Released the source code modifications for OpenFOAM 4.x at the following repository branches:

  • blueCFD-Core-4.x branch, indexed to OpenFOAM-4.x

  • blueCFD-Core-4.x branch, indexed to ThirdParty-4.x

The source code provided has most of the porting changes needed for making OpenFOAM 4.x build and run natively on Windows. What is missing is the development infrastructure, which will be released publicly and for free in the binary release of blueCFD-Core 2016-1.

Said development infrastructure is based on MSys2 and instructions for developing in a clean installation of MSys2 will be provided at openfoamwiki.net, after we have finalized the release of blueCFD-Core 2016-1.

The release source code has been directly forked from the OpenFOAM-dev and ThirdParty-dev repositories, because the objective of this new generation of blueCFD-Core is to keep track of the latest developments of OpenFOAM, enabling Windows users to also keep up with it.