make a MooseApp use another MooseApp

[jmeier]

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Dear Moose-Community,

After creating my moose-app, I can select the modules to be used in the Makefile. Now I like to add my own module. But I want to create my own module not below moose/modules but in a own "library-"MooseApp. Then my regular MooseApp should use the official Moose folder and pull in my "library-"MooseApp.

Background: I'd like to avoid to copy&paste the C++ code of my "library-"MooseApp to all of my regular MooseApps.

I think I'm missing the right words and terms here - but I hope you can guess my desire.

Is there an "official" way to have my MooseApp using the regular Moose in its own untouched folder side by side with an "library-"MooseApp?

Jörg

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[GiudGiud]

Hello

You can link moose apps together. There are examples in Cardinal and in FENIX
It's mostly modifications to the Makefile and to the XYZApp file in base/
Casey is doing this in this PR
idaholab/salamander#53

There are also examples in Cardinal for linking in Griffin, bison etc

[jmeier]

I just re-checked ./shale-dbg --dump Opalinus: No objects found.

[GiudGiud]

ok good that is one is what we want
libOpalinus-dbg.so.0

Do you have an object called Opalinus ?
I m not sure I trust --dump + search. Can you dump to a log and search the log for an object in Opalinus

[jmeier]

Nice! --dump shows my 3 objects! The names of all 3 start with "Opalinus". I'll try to use them tomorrow.

Thank you very much for your excellent help!

[jmeier]

FYI: I have published a ‘template’ for MooseApp code plugins. Maybe this will help other Moose users in case they want to distribute small sets of MooseObjects to other users without having to distribute complete MooseApps:

https://github.com/jmeier/mooseapp-code-plugin

[GiudGiud]

Thanks for sharing. That will save us time next time