User Created Modules

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This is for advanced usage, since creating your own module files for software access is usually not necessary.

If you develop or install your own software, you might consider writing a modulefile to help manage your environment variables. HPCC presently uses the LMOD module package, developed at TACC. The following is a typical module file with comments. Name your files with a .lua extension.

-- -*- lua -*- 
 help( 
 [[ 
 Describe your software here. 
 ]]) 

 -- comments are prefaced with two dashes 

 whatis("Description: Name of software") 
 whatis("URL:  www.ucc.org ") 

 local install_path = "/mnt/home/ongbw/opt/mysoftware" 

 -- set an environment variable 
 setenv("MYSOFTWARE_HOME",install_path) 

 -- add to PATH variable 
 prepend_path('PATH', pathJoin(install_path,"bin")) 

 -- add Library Paths 
 prepend_path('LD_LIBRARY_PATH',pathJoin(install_path,"lib")) 
 prepend_path('LIBRARY_PATH',pathJoin(install_path,"lib")) 

 -- add include paths 
 prepend_path('INCLUDE',pathJoin(install_path,"include"))

For more information, see the Lmod documentation