Port to Ubuntu-23 on Aarch64 (typically on Apple M cpus).

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -650,7 +650,7 @@ if (CUDA_FOUND)
       message("CUDA Debug mode")
       set(CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS "${CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS} -g -G -O0" )
     endif()
-    set(CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS "${CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS} -std=c++11")
+    set(CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS "${CUDA_NVCC_FLAGS} -std=c++17")
 
     target_link_libraries(biodynamo ${CUDA_LIBRARIES})
     cuda_include_directories(${CUDA_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR})

cmake/SetCompilerFlags.cmake

@@ -26,8 +26,16 @@ set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_EXTENSIONS OFF)
 
 # general flags
-set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wall -Wno-missing-braces -m64 -fPIC ${OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS}")
-set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS}   -Wall -Wno-missing-braces -m64 -fPIC ${OpenMP_C_FLAGS}")
+set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -Wall -Wno-missing-braces -fPIC ${OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS}")
+set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS}   -Wall -Wno-missing-braces -fPIC ${OpenMP_C_FLAGS}")
+if(${DETECTED_ARCH} STREQUAL "x86_64")
+    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -m64")
+    set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS}   -m64")
+endif()
+if(${DETECTED_ARCH} STREQUAL "aarch64")
+    set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -mcpu=native")
+    set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS   "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS}   -mcpu=native")
+endif()
 
 # suppress OpenCL-generated warnings
 if (OPENCL_FOUND)

cmake/external/ROOT.cmake

@@ -37,10 +37,12 @@ if(APPLE)
   elseif("${DETECTED_OS_VERS}" MATCHES "^osx-11")
     message(FATAL_ERROR "We officially only support the latest macOS 11 versions 11.6, 11.7.")
   endif()
-else()
-  if("${DETECTED_OS_VERS}" MATCHES "^ubuntu-22")
-    set(ROOT_TAR_FILE root_v6.30.02_cxx17_python3.9_${DETECTED_OS_VERS}.tar.gz)
-  endif()
+#else()
+  #if("${DETECTED_OS_VERS}" MATCHES "^ubuntu-23" AND
+     #"${DETECTED_ARCH}" STREQUAL "aarch64")
+    #set(ROOT_SHA_KEY ubuntu-23.04-${DETECTED_ARCH}-ROOT)
+    #set(ROOT_TAR_FILE root_v6.30.02_cxx17_python3.9_ubuntu-23.04-${DETECTED_ARCH}.tar.gz)
+#  endif()
 endif()
 set(ROOT_SHA ${${ROOT_SHA_KEY}})
 

cmake/external/SHA256Digests.cmake

@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ SET(ubuntu-22.04-ParaView afc803835973fdb8b963fe10eaf1103f2e1650e4573141964c1322
 SET(ubuntu-22.04-Qt b2388d1bcca4e3741ab5b2b0fb95395aeb6c448951a0d3cdeb6db33b64a7d41c)
 SET(ubuntu-22.04-ROOT 24921a85b53c5cfbe9f192e523263781d595c59c9c553818349992e61efc64ac)
 
+SET(ubuntu-23.04-aarch64-ROOT 7d2fcaaeb1e452c38c1d8436288e3171d1b6935f5b6f25d5df16b21e00ca45d8)
+SET(ubuntu-23.10-aarch64-ROOT 8f6fa9db579e011ef4ae7e96830d8ab1284b6df95a1b2f46e6a1cea56fd4626f)
+
 SET(centos-7-Libroadrunner a0b49487a28aedc4b909a71c66263d4a388964008e2b23073dd744231251470c)
 SET(centos-7-ParaView 45d545e75baf32c9fe30944781b4f6b172d4efd7d6cd794dcd19ec671cc5ead0)
 SET(centos-7-Qt 4308621ff9ec84585c3aead92a9d2de787b3c700323333b6e78ed45d04a0d2a4)

cmake/utils.cmake

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 # Detect the system flavour and version. Generate variables
 # called DETECTED_OS (ubuntu-18.04, ubuntu-20.04, centos-7, osx)
 # and DETECTED_OS_VERS (ubuntu-18.04, ubuntu-20.04, centos-7 or osx-11.2-i386).
+# In case the Linux arch is aarch64, the DETECTED_OS_VERS ends in -aarch64,
+# like ubuntu-23.10-aarch64. For backward compatibility reasons we don't
+# add -x86_64.
 function(detect_os)
     if(APPLE)
         execute_process(COMMAND sw_vers "-productVersion"
@@ -40,7 +43,11 @@ function(detect_os)
         set(BDM_OS "${DISTRO_NAME}-${DISTRO_VERSION}")
         set(DETECTED_OS "${BDM_OS}" PARENT_SCOPE)
         set(DETECTED_ARCH "${DISTRO_ARCH}" PARENT_SCOPE)
-        set(DETECTED_OS_VERS "${BDM_OS}" PARENT_SCOPE)
+        if("${DISTRO_ARCH}" STREQUAL "aarch64")
+            set(DETECTED_OS_VERS "${BDM_OS}-${DISTRO_ARCH}" PARENT_SCOPE)
+        else()
+            set(DETECTED_OS_VERS "${BDM_OS}" PARENT_SCOPE)
+        endif()
     endif()
 endfunction()