# An error in the calculix-adapter installation **URL:** \ **Category:** Official adapters and tutorials\ **Tags:** adapters, calculix\ **Created:** [March 26, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://precice.discourse.group/t/an-error-in-the-calculix-adapter-installation/1857 "2024-03-26T14:43:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cj1823149636](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/precice.discourse.group/cj1823149636/32/1928_2.png) [@cj1823149636](https://precice.discourse.group/u/cj1823149636)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://precice.discourse.group/t/an-error-in-the-calculix-adapter-installation/1857/1 "2024-03-26T14:43:38Z")
Hello everyone, I encountered this error while installing the adapter for Calculix. I don’t know how to solve it? Terminal partical output situation: ``` mpicc -Wall -O3 -fopenmp -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -DARCH="Linux" -DSPOOLES -DARPACK -DMATRIXSTORAGE -DUSE_MT -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -c adapter/PreciceInterface.c -o bin/PreciceInterface.o g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -O3 -fopenmp -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -DARCH="Linux" -DSPOOLES -DARPACK -DMATRIXSTORAGE -DUSE_MT -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -c adapter/ConfigReader.cpp -o bin/ConfigReader.o -lspooles -L/home/cj123/precice/lib -lprecice -lstdc++ -lyaml-cpp -larpack -llapack -lblas -lpthread -lm -lc g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -O3 -fopenmp -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -DARCH="Linux" -DSPOOLES -DARPACK -DMATRIXSTORAGE -DUSE_MT -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -c adapter/2D3DCoupling.cpp -o bin/2D3DCoupling.o -lspooles -L/home/cj123/precice/lib -lprecice -lstdc++ -lyaml-cpp -larpack -llapack -lblas -lpthread -lm -lc g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -O3 -fopenmp -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -DARCH="Linux" -DSPOOLES -DARPACK -DMATRIXSTORAGE -DUSE_MT -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -c adapter/OutputBuffer.cpp -o bin/OutputBuffer.o -lspooles -L/home/cj123/precice/lib -lprecice -lstdc++ -lyaml-cpp -larpack -llapack -lblas -lpthread -lm -lc adapter/PreciceInterface.c:15:10: fatal error: precice/preciceC.h: No such file or directory 15 | #include "precice/preciceC.h" | ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make: *** [Makefile:87: bin/PreciceInterface.o] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... adapter/2D3DCoupling.cpp:16:10: fatal error: precice/preciceC.h: No such file or directory 16 | #include "precice/preciceC.h" | ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. make: *** [Makefile:89: bin/2D3DCoupling.o] Error 1 #mpicc -Wall -O3 -fopenmp -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -DARCH="Linux" -DSPOOLES -DARPACK -DMATRIXSTORAGE -DUSE_MT -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -c adapter/OutputBuffer.cpp -o bin/OutputBuffer.o -lspooles -L/home/cj123/precice/lib -lprecice -lstdc++ -lyaml-cpp -larpack -llapack -lblas -lpthread -lm -lc #mpicc -Wall -O3 -fopenmp -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -DARCH="Linux" -DSPOOLES -DARPACK -DMATRIXSTORAGE -DUSE_MT -I./ -I./adapter -I/home/cj123/CalculiX/ccx_2.20/src -I/usr/include/spooles/ -I/home/cj123/precice/include -I/usr/include/ -c adapter/ConfigReader.cpp -o bin/ConfigReader.o -lspooles -L/home/cj123/precice/lib -lprecice -lstdc++ -lyaml-cpp -larpack -llapack -lblas -lpthread -lm -lc cj123@ubuntu:~/calculix-adapter-2.20.1$ ``` Here is the version information of my dependencies, all installed using APT ``` Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libyaml-cpp-dev is already the newest version (0.6.2-4ubuntu1). libarpack2-dev is already the newest version (3.7.0-3). libspooles-dev is already the newest version (2.2-14). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 181 not upgraded. ``` I don’t have any ideas to solve this problem.Here is my makefile file [Makefile.txt](https://precice.discourse.group/uploads/short-url/fqSjPRgSe6NyBm0DGt4eLZnO1DZ.txt) (3.5 KB) ---
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Hi, The simplest reason for this issue could be that the preCICE installation is version 2, while the adapter expects version 3. ---
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