ADMB Project

ADMB-11.2pre
Released December 9, 2014

The installation procedure for installing ADMBTerminal app for the MacOS.

Installation

Prerequisite — Apple Developer Tools (XCode) must be installed.

1. Download ADMB installer

   ADMB-11.2pre XCode (64 Bit).dmg
   ADMB-11.2pre XCode (32 Bit).dmg

2. Double click downloaded ADMB dmg file.

3. In the mounted disk image ADMBTerminal, copy ADMBTerminal into the Applications folder.

   Note — ADMBTerminal will set ADMB_HOME to /Applications/ADMBTerminal.app/admb.

Quick Start

Describe the procedure for building and running the ADMB simple example.

1. Open "ADMBTerminal" located in /Applications, then type admb for Usage options.

   $ admb
   
   Builds AD Model Builder executable or library.
   
   Usage: admb [-c] [-d] [-g] [-r] [-f] model [src(s)]
   
   Options:
    -c     Build only object file(s) (.obj).
    -d     Build a shared library (.so).
    -g     Build with debug symbols.
    -r     Build with Random effects library (ADMB-RE).
    -f     Build with Fast optimized mode library (no bounds checking).
           By default, admb script builds with bounds checking.
    model  TPL file (ie simple.tpl or the filename simple with no .tpl
           extension)
    src(s) C/C++ Source file(s) containing classes, methods and variables that
           are used in model.
   

2. Copy simple example from ADMB_HOME.

   $ cp -R $ADMB_HOME/examples/admb/simple .
   

3. Must change to the copied simple directory .

   $ cd simple
   

4. Build the simple example.

   $ admb simple
   
   *** Parse tpl: simple.tpl
   tpl2cpp simple
   
   *** Compile: simple.cpp
   c++ -c -O3 -I. -I"/Applications/ADMBTerminal.app/include" -I"/Applications/ADMBTerminal.app/contrib/include" -osimple.obj simple.cpp
   
   *** Linking: simple.obj 
   c++ -O3 -osimple simple.obj "/Applications/ADMBTerminal.app/contrib/lib/libcontrib.a" "/Applications/ADMBTerminal.app/lib/libadmb.a"
   
   Successfully built executable.
   

5. Run the simple example.

   $ ./simple
   
   Initial statistics: 2 variables; iteration 0; function evaluation 0; phase 1
   Function value   3.6493579e+01; maximum gradient component mag  -3.6127e+00
   Var   Value    Gradient   |Var   Value    Gradient   |Var   Value    Gradient   
     1  0.00000 -3.61269e+00 |  2  0.00000 -7.27814e-01 |
   
    - final statistics:
   2 variables; iteration 7; function evaluation 19
   Function value   1.4964e+01; maximum gradient component mag  -7.0014e-05
   Exit code = 1;  converg criter   1.0000e-04
   Var   Value    Gradient   |Var   Value    Gradient   |Var   Value    Gradient   
     1  1.90909 -7.00140e-05 |  2  4.07818 -2.08982e-05 |
   Estimating row 1 out of 2 for hessian
   Estimating row 2 out of 2 for hessian
   

6. Consult the ADMB manuals for description of the simple output files.

Help

If help is needed, please email the ADMB users group users@admb-project.org.