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32============================= The KIM API package =============================
34This file contains instructions for installing the KIM API package.
43C. Package concepts and operation overview
45 C.2 Collections for Model Drivers (MDs), Portable Models (PMs), and
46 Simulator Models (SMs)
47 C.2.1 The system-collection
48 C.2.2 The user-collection
49 C.2.3 The environment-variable-collection
50 C.2.4 The CWD-collection
53D. KIM API Installation
54 D.1 Typical build scenario
55 D.2 CMake build options
56 D.2.1 Compiler selection
57 D.2.2 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
58 D.2.3 Installation prefix
59 D.2.4 KIM API specific build options
60 D.3 Installing multiple versions
61 D.4 Uninstall the KIM API
63E. Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs to the collections
64 E.1 Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs to the system-collection
65 E.2 Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs to the user-collection
66 E.3 Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs to the environment-variable-collection
67 E.4 Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs to the CWD-collection
68 E.5 Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs from a local source directory
69 E.6 Manually adding MDs, PMs, and SMs
72-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
77To install and run the KIM API package you need the following:
791. A Unix/Linux/macOS system.
812. CMake (3.10 or later).
833. GNU compilers (gcc, g++, gfortran) version 4.8.x or higher or the
84 corresponding Intel compilers, version 11.1 or higher. Other compilers may
874. (optional) The 'xxd' utility (distributed as part of the vim package).
88 If available, provides faster builds than without.
905. wget or curl, sed, grep, tar, uname, etc. (used by the
91 kim-api-collections-management utility).
936. Doxygen and Graphviz (for generating the documentation).
957. The bash-completion package (for facilitating command-line usage of the
988. pkg-config can be used by code needing to link against the kim-api library.
101-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
103B. QUICK START: For those who don't like to read and are a bit audacious.
107 $ mkdir build && cd build
108 $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
113For more information, see section D.
115-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
117C. PACKAGE LAYOUT AND OPERATION OVERVIEW
120The KIM API package is a system-level library that aims to give computer
121programmers the ability to write atomistic or molecular simulation programs
122(Simulators) that can seamlessly interface with implementations of interatomic
123potentials (Portable Models, PMs), regardless of the programming language in
124which the codes are written. The KIM API package provides a dedicated Portable
125Model Interface (PMI) for use by simulators and PMs and referred to as the KIM
126API/PMI. A PM can include code and parameters all in one. Or, a PM can
127include just parameters and use a separate Model Driver (MD) library containing
128the code. There are also Simulator Models (SMs) that only work with a specific
129simulator. The KIM API package provides a dedicated Simulator Model Interface
130(SMI) for use by simulators and SMs and referred to as the KIM API/SMI. In
131addition to the main KIM API library, a small number of associated helper
132utilities are provided.
136The KIM API library provides the necessary routines for a Simulator to interact
137with a PM or SM. It also contains an interface for discovering what MDs, PMs,
138and SMs are available in the KIM API Collections. MDs, PMs, and SMs are built
139and linked against the KIM API library, then installed in one of the
140collections (see below) so that they are available for use with a simulator.
141Simulators are built and linked against the KIM API library so that they can
142access and use any of the available PMs and/or SM in the various collections.
144C.2 COLLECTIONS FOR MODEL DRIVERS (MDs), PORTABLE MODELS (PMs), AND
145 SIMULATOR MODELS (SMs)
147The KIM API supports four Collections of Items. These are the
148"system-collection", the "user-collection", the
149"environment-variable-collection", and the "CWD-collection" as described below.
150Each collection consists of separate sets of three Item Types: MDs, PMs, and
151SMs. When the KIM API needs to use a particular MD, PD, or SM, it looks for
152the item by type and name, first in the CWD-collection, then in the
153environment-variable-collection, then in the user-collection, and finally in
154the system-collection. It uses the first match that it finds. Note, it is
155possible for a PM and its associated MD to be located in different collections.
156The search for each is a separate and independent procedure.
158See also the documentation for the Collections Interface (c++:
159KIM::Collections; c: KIM_Collections; and Fortran: kim_collections_module).
161C.2.1 THE SYSTEM-COLLECTION
163The system-collection is a collection of MDs, PMs, and SMs that are available
164to all simulators that use the KIM API library. By default, this collection is
165located in the same subdirectory as the KIM API library. (See also the
166"KIM_API_SYSTEM_*_DIR" build options in section D.2.4, below.)
168MDs, PMs, and SMs may be built and installed to the system-collection at
169anytime after the KIM API has been built and installed.
171C.2.2 THE USER-COLLECTION
173The user-collection is a collection of MDs, PMs, and SMs that are available
174only to the user who owns the process for the simulator that uses the KIM API
175library. This collection is located in subdirectories that are specified by a
176configuration file. The user-collection may be populated with MDs, PMs, and
177SMs after the KIM API has been built and installed.
179The configuration file is named "${HOME}/.kim-api/<kim-api-uid>/config" by
180default, where <kim-api-uid> is a unique identifier for the particular
181installation of the kim-api being used (this allows multiple, independent,
182installations on a single machine). Here "${HOME}" is the user's home
183directory. (See item D below for build options controlling this default file
184name.) If the "KIM_API_CONFIGURATION_FILE" environment variable is set, its
185value (interpreted as an absolute file name) will supersede the default
186location and name of the configuration file. For example, the following
187commands will instruct the KIM API library to use a file named "kim-config" in
188the /my-kim-stuff folder
190 $ export KIM_API_CONFIGURATION_FILE=/my-kim-stuff/kim-config
192If the configuration file does not exist, the KIM API library will create it
193with a default configuration specifying that the user-collection files are
194stored in "${HOME}/.kim-api/<kim-api-uid>/model-drivers/",
195"${HOME}/.kim-api/<kim-api-uid>/portable-models/", and
196"${HOME}/.kim-api/<kim-api-uid>/simulator-models/". More generally, the values
197in the configuration file may contain colon ':' (on Windows: semi-colon ';')
198separated lists of fully-qualified directory names (starting, strictly, with
199'/', '~/' or a root drive letter like 'C:/'). (See item D below for build
200options controlling these defaults.)
202C.2.3 THE ENVIRONMENT-VARIABLE-COLLECTION
204The environment-variable-collection is a collection of MDs, PMs, and SMs that
205are specified by the run-time environment of the process for the simulator that
206uses the KIM API library. The locations of this collection are specified by
207the environment variables "KIM_API_MODEL_DRIVERS_DIR",
208"KIM_API_PORTABLE_MODELS_DIR", and "KIM_API_SIMULATOR_MODELS_DIR". These
209variables should contain colon ':' (on Windows: semi-colon ';') separated lists
210of absolute directory names where the collection MDs, PMs, and SMs, respectively,
211are located. (For example, in bash you could execute the command
213 $ export KIM_API_PORTABLE_MODELS_DIR=/my-kim-stuff/models-i-am-developing:/my-kim-stuff/misc-portable-models
215to have the KIM API look for PMs in /my-kim-stuff/models-i-am-developing first
216and then look in /my-kim-stuff/misc-portable-models. (Similarly for MDs and
217SMs.) The environment-variable-collection may be populated with MDs, PMs, and
218SMs after the KIM API has been built and installed.
220C.2.4 THE CWD-COLLECTION
222The CWD-collection is a collection of MDs, PMs, SMs that are available to a
223simulator at run-time. The collection is located in the simulator process's
224current working directory (CWD). The CWD-collection may be populated with MDs,
225PMs, and SMs after the KIM API has been built and installed.
229The KIM API package also includes a utility for managing the MDs, PMs, and SMs
230contained in the various collections and for managing the configuration file.
231This utility is called "kim-api-collections-management". The KIM API package
232installs bash completion scripts that are designed to work with the
233"bash-completion" package (https://github.com/scop/bash-completion). When
234"bash-completion" is installed and activated on the system, tab-completions for
235the collections management utility should be automatically loaded and available
238In addition, when the KIM API package is installed to a "Local (non-global)"
239(see D below) directory, the package also installs the "kim-api-activate" and
240"kim-api-deactivate" scripts. The activate script adds the utilities to the
241executable PATH, adds the KIM API library to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH so that the
242pkg-config utility can find it, and loads bash tab-completion support for the
243collections management utility. The deactivate script removes what the
244activate script added.
247-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
249D. KIM API INSTALLATION
251D.1 Typical Build Scenario
253Here, the typical KIM API build and install process is detailed and the
254system-collection is populated with the example MDs, PMs, and SMs, as well as a
255single PM and its associated MD, both from openkim.org. Additionally, one of
256the example simulators is copied to the user's home directory and used to test
257the KIM API. The KIM API package uses the CMake build system. See the CMake
258documentation (https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.10/) for help with CMake
259settings. For some common CMake settings and KIM API specific settings, see
262The commands given below are for the bash shell.
264By default packages are installed to the Global prefix directory "/usr/local".
265Here we assume that "/usr/local/bin" is included as part of the system's
266standard PATH setting.
268First, we will create a working space and obtain the source package
270 $ export WORKSPACE="${HOME}/kim-api-workspace"
271 $ mkdir "${WORKSPACE}"
273 $ wget https://s3.openkim.org/kim-api/kim-api-X.Y.Z.txz # replace X, Y, and Z with the current version numbers
274 $ tar Jxvf kim-api-X.Y.Z.txz
277We will set an environment variable to point the the KIM API source.
279 $ export KIM_API_SOURCE="${WORKSPACE}/kim-api-X.Y.Z" # replace X, Y, and Z with the current version numbers
281Next the configuration and build process begins. (Note: lines beginning with
282"$", without leading whitespace, in this file are extracted and used in the KIM
283API automated Continuous-Integration (CI) testing framework.)
288$ cmake ${KIM_API_SOURCE} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
291If you want, build the documentation.
295If you want, before installing the package, you can run the tests.
299Now, install the package (and docs, if built).
302$ sudo ldconfig # All linux systems should do this; on Redhat-like systems you may need to first add /usr/local/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf
303$ cp -r "${KIM_API_SOURCE}/examples/simulators/utility_forces_numer_deriv" "${WORKSPACE}/"
306If you want, you can now delete the source and build tree. However, you may
307also want to preserve the "install_manifest.txt" file which would be needed for
308uninstalling the KIM API package (see D.4 below).
310 $ cp "${WORKSPACE}/build/install_manifest.txt" "${WORKSPACE}/install_manifest.txt"
311 $ rm -r "${WORKSPACE}/build
313Now, we can build the simulator using the KIM API library that we have just
316$ cd utility_forces_numer_deriv
322Try it with one of the example models:
324$ printf "ex_model_Ar_P_LJ" | ./utility_forces_numer_deriv
326Next, we can try it with a model installed from https://openkim.org:
328$ kim-api-collections-management install system --sudo EDIP_JustoBazantKaxiras_1998_Si__MO_958932894036_002
329$ printf "EDIP_JustoBazantKaxiras_1998_Si__MO_958932894036_002" | ./utility_forces_numer_deriv
331Congratulations, you have now successfully installed the KIM API. If you would
332like to learn more about the KIM API, read the documentation in the docs
333directory (/usr/local/share/doc/kim-api).
335If you would like to install the latest release of all models from
336https://openkim.org, you can do:
338 $ kim-api-collections-management install system --sudo OpenKIM
340D.2 CMAKE BUILD OPTIONS
342The KIM API defines a number of specific build options which are detailed in
343this section. But first, some notes about a few important standard CMake
346D.2.1 COMPILER SELECTION
348By default CMake will search for appropriate compilers available on your
349system. Generally, it selects reasonable choices. However, if you wish to
350force CMake to use specific compilers, you can do so with environment variables
351set on the command line. For example, suppose you have the latest GNU Compiler
352Collection (GCC) version X installed with the compilers named 'gcc-X', 'g++-X',
353and 'gfortran-X', for the C, C++, and Fortran compilers, respectively. Then,
354to force CMake to use these compilers, replace the command (from above)
356 $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
360 $ CC=gcc-X CXX=g++-X FC=gfortran-X cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
362D.2.2 CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
364CMake defines the option CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE which can be set to "Debug",
365"Release", "RelWithDebInfo", "MinSizeRel", or it can be empty. (See the CMake
366documentation for more details.) By default CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is empty. In
367short, while developing code or debugging, the value of "Debug" or
368"RelWithDebInfo" should be used. When building for production runs one of the
369other values should be used.
371D.2.3 INSTALLATION PREFIX
373Here and below, all paths or filepaths must be specified in a format
374appropriate for the OS (windows or linux). Windows paths are of the form
375C:\dir1\dir2 (forward slashes may be used instead to avoid escaping issues:
376C:/dir1/dir2) and linux paths are of the form /dir1/dir2.
378By default CMake installs the KIM API package under the Global prefix
379"/usr/local". This is referred to as a "Global" (or system-wide) installation.
380It is available to all users of the system. (Other "Global" prefix values are
381"/" and "/usr".) However, such installations require root user permissions (as
382implied by the use of the "sudo" command above). If you do not have root user
383permission and/or do not want to install the KIM API to the global location,
384you can change where CMake installs the KIM API by replacing the command (from
387 $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
391 $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/install/prefix/path" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
393where "/install/prefix/path" should be replaced with your desired prefix. For
394example, to install the KIM API in the "local" subdirectory of your home
395directory, use "${HOME}/local". When installed in such a directory, the user
396may employ the "kim-api-activate" utility to setup the PATH and bash
397completions. For example:
399 $ source ${HOME}/local/bin/kim-api-activate
401D.2.4 KIM API SPECIFIC BUILD OPTIONS
403The KIM API defines two additional regular build options and additional
406* KIM_API_LOG_MAXIMUM_LEVEL (="DEBUG" if CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is "Debug", otherwise
407 ="INFORMATION") This option takes one of the following six values "SILENT",
408 "FATAL", "ERROR", "WARNING", "INFORMATION", "DEBUG". This value controls, at
409 compile-time, which type of log messages can be printed to the "kim.log"
412* KIM_API_BUILD_EXAMPLES (=ON) When ON CMake will build the example MDs, PMs,
413 SMs and Simulators. NOTE: this option may be removed/changed in future
414 releases when the examples are incorporated into the documentation.
416Additionally, the KIM API defines the following advanced build options.
418* KIM_API_PROJECT_NAME (="kim-api") This value controls the naming of many
419 aspects of the package build. Generally this should not be changed. It can
420 be used to build and install, on the same machine, two different copies
421 (typically different versions) of the package.
423* KIM_API_ENABLE_SANITIZE (=OFF) When ON this enables the AddressSanitizer
424 library for detecting memory corruption bugs.
426* KIM_API_ENABLE_COVERAGE (=OFF) When ON this enables gcov code coverage.
428* KIM_API_CONFIGURATION_TIMESTAMP (=<utc-time-of-cmake-configuration>) This is
429 used as part of the <kim-api-uid> universal ID for the kim-api installation.
431* KIM_API_CMAKE_C_COMPILER (="${CMAKE_C_COMPILER}") This value is recorded and
432 used after installation for compilation of items (MDs, PMs, SMs, etc.) to
433 ensure binary compatibility with the installed KIM API.
435* KIM_API_CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER (="${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER}") This value is recorded
436 and used after installation for compilation of items (MDs, PMs, SMs, etc.)
437 to ensure binary compatibility with the installed KIM API.
439* KIM_API_CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER (="${CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER}") This value is
440 recorded and used after installation for compilation of items (MDs, PMs, SMs,
441 etc.) to ensure binary compatibility with the installed KIM API.
443* KIM_API_USER_CONFIGURATION_FILE (=".${PROJECT_NAME}/config") This value
444 determines the default name of the KIM API user configuration file. If the
445 value corresponds to a relative path (does not start with "/"), then it is
446 interpreted as relative to the user's home directory "${HOME}".
448* KIM_API_USER_MODEL_DRIVERS_DIR_DEFAULT
449 (="~/.${PROJECT_NAME}/<kim-api-uid>/model-drivers") This value specifies the
450 default colon ':' (semicolon ';' on windows) separated list of the MD
451 directory locations for the user collection.
453* KIM_API_USER_PORTABLE_MODELS_DIR_DEFAULT
454 (="~/.${PROJECT_NAME}/<kim-api-uid>/portable-drivers") This value specifies
455 the default colon ':' (semicolon ';' on windows) separated list of the PM
456 directory locations for the user collection.
458* KIM_API_USER_SIMULATOR_MODELS_DIR_DEFAULT
459 (="~/.${PROJECT_NAME}/<kim-api-uid>/simulator-models") This value specifies
460 the default colon ':' (semicolon ';' on windows) separated list of the SM
461 directory locations for the user collection.
463* KIM_API_SYSTEM_MODEL_DRIVERS_DIR
464 (="${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}/model-drivers") This value
465 specifies a colon ':' (semicolon ';' on windows) separated list of the MD
466 directory locations in the system collection. If the value starts with a
467 colon (semicolon on windows), cmake will update it by prepending the default
470* KIM_API_SYSTEM_PORTABLE_MODELS_DIR
471 (="${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}/portable-models") This value
472 specifies a colon ':' (semicolon ';' on windows) separated list of the PM
473 directory locations in the system collection. If the value starts with a
474 colon (semicolon on windows), cmake will update it by prepending the default
477* KIM_API_SYSTEM_SIMULATOR_MODELS_DIR
478 (="${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR}/${PROJECT_NAME}/simulator-models") This value
479 specifies a colon ':' (semicolon ';' on windows) separated list of the SM
480 directory locations in the system collection. If the value starts with a
481 colon (semicolon on windows), cmake will update it by prepending the default
484D.3 Installing multiple versions
486On linux and macOS systems if you intend to install multiple versions of the
487KIM API using the same installation prefix
488("-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/install/prefix/path" argument to cmake) you must take
489care that the installations do not overwrite each other. If you intend to
490install multiple versions using the same prefix you must use the
491"-DKIM_API_PROJECT_NAME=project-name" argument (See D.2.4 above) to cmake and
492use a unique value (any string without whitespace or control characters is
493valid) for each installation.
495Full support for the "-DKIM_API_PROJECT_NAME" argument, as described here, was
496first available in v2.0.2. For example, suppose the current version of the KIM
497API were v3.2.1, and you want to also install KIM API v3.0.0, and v2.1.1.
498Then, you would configure each version as follows:
502 $ cmake .. [additional args] # use default ("kim-api") for current version.
506 $ cmake .. -DKIM_API_PROJECT_NAME=kim-api3.0 [additional args]
510 $ cmake .. -DKIM_API_PROJECT_NAME=kim-api2.1 [additional args]
512D.4 Uninstall the KIM API
514When the KIM API package is installed, CMake creates a file in the build tree
515named "install_manifest.txt". For the above commands this file would be
516located at "${HOME}/kim-api-X.Y.Z/build/install_manifest.txt". The manifest
517file contains the absolute file name of every file installed as part of the KIM
518API package. The contents of the install_manifest.txt file can be used to
519remove these files and, thus, uninstall the KIM API package. Thus, the
520install_manifest.txt file should be saved for later use, if necessary.
522For example, the following commands could be used to uninstall the KIM API
523package (assuming the "install_manifest.txt" file is located in your home
527 $ while read line || test -n "${line}"; do sudo rm -f "${line}"; done < install_manifest.txt
529A more sophisticated set of commands could also remove any empty subdirectories
530left behind by this process.
532It may also be desirable to remove the user configuration file and user
533collection directories.
535 $ rm -rf "${HOME}/.kim-api"
538-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
540E. ADDING MDs, PMs, and SMs TO THE COLLECTIONS
543Here we describe how to add MDs, PMs, and SMs to the system-collection,
544user-collection, environment-variable-collection, and the CWD-collection.
546E.1 ADDING MDs, PMs, and SMs TO THE SYSTEM-COLLECTION
548Once you have the KIM API installed, it is easy to add additional MDs, PMs, and
549SMs to the system-collection.
553$ kim-api-collections-management install system --sudo Morse_Shifted_Jelinek_1972_Ar__MO_831902330215_003
554$ kim-api-collections-management install system --sudo Sim_LAMMPS_ADP_PunDarlingKecskes_2015_CuTa__SM_399364650444_000
556The kim-api-collections-management utility automatically installs the necessary
557MD too. You can see the items in the various collections by executing the
560$ kim-api-collections-management list
562Now we can test the newly installed PM.
564$ cd "${WORKSPACE}/utility_forces_numer_deriv/build" # we'll assume this is already built
565$ printf "Morse_Shifted_Jelinek_1972_Ar__MO_831902330215_003" | ./utility_forces_numer_deriv
567E.2 ADDING MDs, PMs, and SMs TO THE USER-COLLECTION
569Adding MDs, PSs, and SMs to the user-collection is similar.
573$ kim-api-collections-management install user LJ_Shifted_Bernardes_1958HighCutoff_Ar__MO_242741380554_003
574$ kim-api-collections-management install user Sim_LAMMPS_AGNI_BotuBatraChapman_2017_Al__SM_666183636896_000
575$ kim-api-collections-management list
576$ cd "${WORKSPACE}/utility_forces_numer_deriv/build" # we'll assume this is already built
577$ printf "LJ_Shifted_Bernardes_1958HighCutoff_Ar__MO_242741380554_003" | ./utility_forces_numer_deriv
579E.3 ADDING MDs, PMs, and SMs TO THE ENVIRONMENT-VARIABLE-COLLECTION
581Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs to the environment-variable-collection is similar.
585$ mkdir -p "${WORKSPACE}/my-env-collection/model-drivers"
586$ export KIM_API_MODEL_DRIVERS_DIR="${WORKSPACE}/my-env-collection/model-drivers"
587$ mkdir -p "${WORKSPACE}/my-env-collection/portable-models"
588$ export KIM_API_PORTABLE_MODELS_DIR="${WORKSPACE}/my-env-collection/portable-models"
589$ mkdir -p "${WORKSPACE}/my-env-collection/simulator-models"
590$ export KIM_API_SIMULATOR_MODELS_DIR="${WORKSPACE}/my-env-collection/simulator-models"
591$ kim-api-collections-management install environment Morse_Shifted_GirifalcoWeizer_1959HighCutoff_Cu__MO_151002396060_003
592$ kim-api-collections-management install environment Sim_LAMMPS_BOP_WardZhouWong_2012_CdZnTe__SM_409035133405_000
593$ kim-api-collections-management list
594$ cd "${WORKSPACE}/utility_forces_numer_deriv/build" # we'll assume this is already built
595$ printf "Morse_Shifted_GirifalcoWeizer_1959HighCutoff_Cu__MO_151002396060_003" | ./utility_forces_numer_deriv
597E.4 ADDING MDs, PMs, and SMs TO THE CWD-COLLECTION
599Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs to the CWD-collection is, again, similar.
603$ kim-api-collections-management install CWD Exp6_KongChakrabarty_1973_ArNe__MO_946046425752_002
604$ kim-api-collections-management install CWD Sim_LAMMPS_MEAM_EtesamiAsadi_2018_Ni__SM_333792531460_000
605$ kim-api-collections-management list
606$ printf "Exp6_KongChakrabarty_1973_ArNe__MO_946046425752_002" | "${WORKSPACE}/utility_forces_numer_deriv/build/utility_forces_numer_deriv" # we'll assume this is already built
608E.5 Adding MDs, PMs, and SMs from a local source directory
610The kim-api-collections-management utility allows for the installation of items
611from a directory on the local file system. This is useful if you are
612developing an item or do not have network access to openkim.org, but already
613have the source code downloaded. We'll assume that the item's source code
614(including the CMakeLists.txt file, parameter files, etc) you want to install
615are in directory "${WORKSPACE}/item-source". Then you simply provide this
616directory name instead of the item name.
618 $ kim-api-collections-management install user "${WORKSPACE}/item-source"
620E.6 Manually adding MDs, PMs, and SMs
622If necessary a MD, PM, or SM may be manually built and installed. We'll assume
623the item's source code is in the current directory
627 $ cmake .. -DKIM_API_INSTALL_COLLECTION=SYSTEM
631The KIM_API_INSTALL_COLLECTION variable can also take values USER and
634*******************************************************************************
638Support is always available by posting questions with all relevant information
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643Members of the OpenKIM development team actively monitor this forum and
644will do their best to respond to questions in a timely fashion.
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