Build ResInsight on RHEL8

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Configuration of RHEL8 to build ResInsight [Alpha]

Introduction

RHEL8 is installed in WSL using an image from RedHat. The image is created as described here https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2023/11/15/create-customized-rhel-images-wsl-environment#

Launch RHEL8, and connect to a subscription to be able to download packages.
https://access.redhat.com/management/

Install gcc 10

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/developing_c_and_cpp_applications_in_rhel_8/additional-toolsets-for-development_developing-applications

yum install gcc-toolset-10 gcc-toolset-10-libatomic-devel

Activate gcc
scl enable gcc-toolset-10 bash
or
source /opt/rh/gcc-toolset-10/enable

Python 3.8

Python 3.8 is the minimum requirement for ResInsight. See the following description for Python 3.8 https://levelup.gitconnected.com/how-to-install-python-3-8-on-rhel-8-and-centos-8-fac11aef2165

yum install python3.8
alternatives --config python3

Packages for development

yum install git cmake perl-IPC-Cmd mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel

Requirements for Qt6

patchelf is required for the install/package of Qt6 applications.

Add EPEL to list of repos

dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
yum install patchelf

The xcb platform plugin requires the following package
yum install xcb-util-cursor

Qt 6

Create a folder for the Qt installation.

Install a python package used to install Qt https://aqtinstall.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

python3 -m pip install aqtinstall
aqt install-qt linux desktop 5.15.2
aqt install-qt linux desktop 6.5.3

Then follow the installation described at https://resinsight.org/getting-started/download-and-install/build-instructions-ubuntu/