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+FROM debian:buster
+LABEL maintainer="goran.jelic-cizmek@unige.ch"
+
+# download required packages and libraries
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -yqq --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests \
+    ca-certificates \
+    libfftw3-dev \
+    libgsl-dev \
+    libhdf5-mpich-dev \
+    mpich \
+    make \
+    g++ \
+    git \
+    subversion \
+    libcfitsio-dev \
+    libcurl4-gnutls-dev \
+    libtool \
+    autoconf \
+    automake
+
+# downloading LATField2 and gevolution
+RUN git clone https://github.com/daverio/LATfield2 latfield2
+RUN git clone https://github.com/gevolution-code/gevolution-1.2 gevolution
+
+# downloading extra optional dependencies
+RUN git clone https://github.com/lesgourg/class_public class
+RUN svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/healpix/code/trunk healpix
+
+WORKDIR /class
+# building the CLASS library
+RUN make -j libclass.a
+
+WORKDIR /healpix
+# building the healpix library
+# NOTE: there are missing files that autoconf needs to install,
+# so we run that first
+RUN autoreconf --install src/common_libraries/libsharp/
+RUN autoreconf --install src/cxx/
+RUN export FITSDIR="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" && \
+    ./configure --auto=c,cpp
+RUN make -j c-all cpp-all
+
+WORKDIR /gevolution
+# compiling gevolution
+RUN make \
+    INCLUDE+="\
+        -I/latfield2 \
+        -I/usr/include/hdf5/mpich \
+        -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/mpich \
+        -I/class/include \
+        -L/class \
+        -I/healpix/include \
+        -L/healpix/lib" \
+    DGEVOLUTION+="\
+        -DHAVE_CLASS \
+        -DHAVE_HEALPIX" \
+    LIB="\
+        -lclass \
+        -fopenmp \
+        -lcfitsio \
+        -lchealpix \
+        -lfftw3 \
+        -lm \
+        -lhdf5 \
+        -lgsl \
+        -lgslcblas"
+
+# linking the gevolution binary so it's executable anywhere (since /bin is in $PATH)
+RUN ln -s /gevolution/gevolution /bin/gevolution
+
+# compiling lccat
+RUN make lccat
+
+# linking it
+RUN ln -s /gevolution/lccat /bin/lccat
+
+# compiling lcmap
+RUN make lcmap \
+    INCLUDE+="\
+        -I/healpix/include \
+        -I/healpix/include/healpix_cxx \
+        -L/healpix/lib" \
+    DGEVOLUTION+="\
+        -DHAVE_HEALPIX" \
+    LIB="\
+        -lcfitsio \
+        -lchealpix \
+        -lfftw3 \
+        -lm \
+        -lgsl \
+        -lgslcblas"
+
+# linking it
+RUN ln -s /gevolution/lcmap /bin/lcmap
+# the linker doesn't find the healpix library by default, so we need to set it explicitly
+ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/healpix/lib"
+
+# set the entry point
+WORKDIR /data
+# copy the settings files
+RUN cp -a \
+    /gevolution/settings.ini \
+    /gevolution/sc1_crystal.dat \
+    /gevolution/class_tk.dat \
+    /data/
+# making the output dir since gevolution doesn't build one by itself
+RUN mkdir -p /data/output
+
+# OPTIONAL: to run gevolution outside of the container without
+# having to specify all of these parameters;
+# of course, you can override this behavior
+# by specifing the command after the container name;
+# for instance, if you want to run the container interactively with a shell,
+# you can instead use:
+# `docker run -ti gevolution /bin/bash`
+# if you want to use `lccat`, you can use:
+# `docker run -ti gevolution lccat`
+CMD [ \
+    "mpirun", \
+    "-np", "4", \
+    "gevolution", \
+    "-n", "2", \
+    "-m", "2", \
+    "-s", "settings.ini" \
+]