Building SAMRAI using CMake: mkdir build && cd build cmake ../ make Third-party libraries will be detected by CMake based on what is in your path. On LC systems, the `use` command should set the right environment variables. Alternatively, you can use `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` to point CMake at the locations of the libraries. The only required library is boost. HDF5 is enabled by default but can be turned off by passing the argument `-DENABLE_HDF5=Off` to CMake. More extensive instructions on building and installing SAMRAI using CMake are available in the INSTALL-NOTES file.