or CPT's wonderful journey through the installer towards getting IMAS on new platforms.

Disclaimer: all example steps given below are assuming BASH being your shell of choice. 

1. Installing main dependencies

Follow the list of requirements/dependencies as stored in https://git.iter.org/projects/IMAS/repos/access-layer/browse/README.md

Add modules to set them up in the environment.

2. Installing IMAS

2.1. Getting the IMAS installer

Clone the installer using either master (recommended) or develop branch (at your own risk)

git clone ssh://git@git.iter.org/imas/installer.git

2.2. Preparing the configuration

Create target directory where all IMAS related tools will be deployed (will be referenced as IMAS_HOME from now on).

Adapt site-config/Makefile.default to the local configuration and needs. Look at tools/imas-config.in to try to guess how to name your own site-config file, and/or check which files are being targeted by running 

DEBUG=1 ./tools/imas-config.in

Check if configuration is generating the expected setting for the targeted DD and AL tags by running

make help TAG_DD=a.b.c TAG_AL=x.y.z

2.3. Building 

git clone https://g2bpalak@gforge6.eufus.eu/git/imasscripts

Example with real steps followed on IPP's tok cluster.

• Installing Saxon-HE from https://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon/files/Saxon-HE/9.9/SaxonHE9-9-1-5J.zip/download
• Installing Blitz++ from https://github.com/blitzpp/blitz
  • specify --with-pic to configure step
• Installing more recent version of MDSplus from https://github.com/MDSplus/mdsplus (stable release 7.84.8)
  • requires building the python interface in order to allow conversion with ualport.py

• Updating tools/imas-config.in

  diff --git a/tools/imas-config.in b/tools/imas-config.in
  index 7d7cdc4..84c7f11 100755
  --- a/tools/imas-config.in
  +++ b/tools/imas-config.in
  @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ getalias() {
     [[ "$1" =~ ^gpu(008|010).fusion.ccfe.ac.uk$ ]] && echo "UKAEA.GPU"
     [[ "$1" =~ ^ipp.mpg.de$ ]] && echo "IPP-Garching"
     [[ "$1" =~ ^mpcdf.mpg.de$ ]] && echo "IPP-Garching"
  +  [[ "$1" =~ ^bc.rzg.mpg.de$ ]] && echo "IPP-Garching"
     [[ "$1" =~ ^nakasvr17.naka.qst.go.jp ]] && echo "JT-60"

• Creating site-config/Makefile.IPP-Garching.SLES-15