Installing Metis from Source

Installing Metis from source requires an installation of either MLton, Poly/ML or Moscow ML, as well as standard system tools including GNU Make and Perl.

1. Download the metis.tar.gz file.
2. Extract it with the command tar xvzf metis.tar.gz
3. There will be a new directory called metis. Change to this directory.
4. To build using MLton:
   • Build with the command make mlton
   • Test with the command bin/mlton/metis --help
5. To build using Poly/ML:
   • Build with the command make polyml
   • Test with the command bin/polyml/metis --help
6. To build using Moscow ML:
   • Build with the command make mosml
   • Test with the command bin/mosml/metis --help
7. If the test results in a usage message, the installation was successful.
8. A more serious test is to prove the benchmark problems using the command path/to/metis data/problems/benchmark/*

If anything goes wrong, you can use the command make clean to clean out any object files.

Troubleshooting

To report a bug or request an enhancement, please file an issue at GitHub.