4. Installing OpenFAST

The following pages provide instructions for building OpenFAST and/or its modules from source code. The developer team is moving towards a CMake-only approach that well supports Window Visual Studio users, but at this time we provide a separate build path for those users.

• 4.1. Obtaining the OpenFAST source code
• 4.2. Building OpenFAST with CMake on Linux and Mac
• 4.3. Building OpenFAST with Spack
• 4.4. Building OpenFAST on Windows with CMake and Cygwin 64-bit
• 4.5. Building OpenFAST on Windows with Visual Studio