Using ADMB on linux

Installation

Note, this is just a supplement to the instructions on the ADMB Installation Linux page.

To have the $ADMB_HOME and $PATH environmental variables set for all future sessions, edit the ~/.bashrc file (or ~/.bash_login, or other file that will be loaded when you open a terminal or connect to your computer) and add the following lines. You may replace ~/admb with /usr/local/admb or any other location where you choose to unzip the ADMB files.

#!/bin/bash
export ADMB_HOME=~/admb
PATH=$PATH:$ADMB_HOME/bin
export PATH

Compiling

In linux, compiling may be done in two steps, using "tpl2cpp" to convert the TPL file to a C++ file, and "mygcco" or "mygccs" to compile the C++ file (in either optimized or safe mode). Or in one step with the "makeadm" or "makeadms" scripts.

Unlike Windows, the executable file created by this process has no extension, and to run it, you need to add "./" in front of the filename. Thus, a typical sequence might be,

makeadm MYMODEL
./MYMODEL

Input files

dos2unix MYFILE.dat

to convert the newline characters.The converted files should work on both linux and Windows.