[Mesa-users] need Assistance

[Frank Timmes]

did you follow the installation directions at

https://docs.mesastar.org/en/latest/installation.html

and successfully compile mesa?

fxt




> On Feb 17, 2026, at 7:49 AM, Wafa Gull via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you for both of you. 
> Actually I want to keep the mesa in its original form so that I can compare my changes to the original one.
> 
> This is what I copied my folder in which I am intended to do changes and compiled it .
> 
> Now, I am planning to copy whole test_suite folder so that it might not spit that out.
> 
> If there is any other way please let me know. How can I do that?
> 
> Regards,
> Wafa Gull
> 
> From: Théo-Courty <tcourty at apc.in2p3.fr>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 7:35 AM
> To: Wafa Gull <Wafa.Gull at usm.edu>
> Cc: mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>
> Subject: Re: [Mesa-users] need Assistance
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> Hi Wafa,
> 
> I tried with version r25.12.1 and it compiled out-of-the-box without any issue. Maybe double check that your MESA_DIR and MESASDK_ROOT variables are set up/exported correctly.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Théo
> 
>> Le 16 févr. 2026 à 20:18, Wafa Gull via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> a écrit :
>> 
>> Dear mesa users,
>> 
>> I am a new user, and I am trying to model the cepheid variable star below the 6 solar masses. 
>> For this sake I have just download latest MESA software.
>> 
>> I have copied the original folder rsp_cepheid from star/test_suite/rsp_cepheid to my new folder and run but it is spitting out this error.
>> wafa at wafa-HP-Pavilion-Laptop-15-eg0xxx:~/mesa/star/test_suite/wafa_work/rsp_cepheid_wafa$ ./mk
>> gfortran -Wno-uninitialized -fno-range-check -fmax-errors=7 -fdiagnostics-color  -fprotect-parens -fno-sign-zero -fbacktrace -ggdb -finit-real=snan -fopenmp -fbounds-check -Wuninitialized -Warray-bounds -ggdb -ffree-form -ffree-line-length-none -x f95-cpp-input -std=f2008 -Wno-error=tabs -I/home/wafa/mesa/include -I../src -c ../src/run_star_extras.f90
>> ../src/run_star_extras.f90:30:0:
>> 
>>    30 |       include "test_suite_extras_def.inc"
>>       | 
>> Fatal Error: Cannot open included file 'test_suite_extras_def.inc'
>> compilation terminated.
>> make: *** [/home/wafa/mesa/star/work_standard_makefile:39: run_star_extras.o] Error 1
>> 
>> FAILED.
>> 
>> Do I need to copy some other things as well to run my code?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Wafa Gull
>> 
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