Add packages to Module package manager

After installed Module package manager on HPC cluster, we should add packages.

Module environment

• /data/software/src: for source code.
• /data/software/modules/: for built binaries and libraries.
• /data/software/module/tools/modules/modulefiles/: for packages’ Modulefile.

CMake

Pull from git repository or download via wget. Here I clone from git repository with version 3.31.5.

git clone git@github.com:Kitware/CMake.git --tag v3.31.5
cd v3.31.5/
mkdir /data/software/modules
./bootstrap --prefix=/data/software/modules/cmake/3.31.5
make -j $(nproc)
make install

Module file should be placed here: /data/software/module/tools/modules/modulefiles/cmake/3.25.0.

Modulefile content:

#%Module1.0
set version 3.31.5
set prefix /data/software/modules/cmake/$version

prepend-path PATH $prefix/bin
prepend-path MANPATH $prefix/share/man
prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH $prefix/lib

Note:

• PATH should be the directory where the binaries exists ($prefix/bin in this example).
• MANPATH should be the directory where the manuals exists.
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH should be the directory where the libraries exists for the loader and linker.

VDE-2

Pull source from sourceforge would not compile. I chose to clone source from Github.

git clone git@github.com:virtualsquare/vde-2.git
cd vde-2/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake .. --install-prefix=/data/software/modules/vde/2.3.3
make -j$(nproc)
make install

Modulefile path: /data/software/module/tools/modules/modulefiles/vde/2.3.3. Modulefile content:

#%Module1.0
set version 2.3.3
set prefix /data/software/modules/vde/$version

prepend-path PATH $prefix/bin
prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH $prefix/lib
prepend-path MANPATH $prefix/share/man

QEMU

Pull source from QEMU official website.

wget https://download.qemu.org/qemu-9.2.0.tar.xz
tar -xvf qemu-9.2.0.tar.xz
cd qemu-9.2.0

Dependencies should be installed. Since my HPC cluster uses Rocky Linux, the package manager is dnf. But on other distributions, you should adopt different package managers and package name might be different as well.

dnf install python3-tomli
dnf install ninja

Compile QEMU with following command.

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/data/software/modules/vde/2.3.3/lib64/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH \
./configure \
    --enable-kvm \
    --enable-slirp \
    --enable-vde \
    --enable-system \
    --enable-user \
    --extra-cflags="-I/data/software/modules/vde/2.3.3/include/" \
    --extra-ldflags="-L/data/software/modules/vde/2.3.3/lib64/" \
    --prefix=/data/software/modules/qemu/9.2.0

Command explained:

• Note that I enabled some options in configuring phase because I need VDE and User network device support.
• On CentOS/RHEL, PKG_CONFIG_PATH is required.
• --extra-cflags is for C compiler.
• --extra-ldflags is for linker.

Build and install.

make -j$(nproc)
make install