diff --git a/installation/compile_CoreModule.py b/installation/compile_CoreModule.py
deleted file mode 100755
index 94df21f91..000000000
--- a/installation/compile_CoreModule.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,141 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python2
-# -*- coding: UTF-8 no BOM -*-
-
-import os,sys,glob,subprocess,shlex
-from damask import Environment
-from damask import version as DAMASKVERSION
-
-# compiles fortran code for Python
-scriptID = '$Id$'
-
-damaskEnv = Environment()
-baseDir = damaskEnv.relPath('installation/')
-codeDir = damaskEnv.relPath('code/')
-
-keywords=['IMKL_ROOT','ACML_ROOT','LAPACK_ROOT','FFTW_ROOT','F90']
-options={}
-
-#--- getting options from damask.conf or, if not present, from envinronment -----------------------
-for option in keywords:
-  try:
-    value = damaskEnv.options[option]
-  except:
-    value = os.getenv(option)
-    if value is None: value = ''           # env not set
-  options[option]=value
-
-#--- overwrite default options with keyword=value pair from argument list to mimic make behavior --
-for i, arg in enumerate(sys.argv):
-  for option in keywords:
-    if arg.startswith(option):
-      options[option] = sys.argv[i][len(option)+1:]
-
-#--- check for valid compiler and set options -----------------------------------------------------
-compilers = ['ifort','gfortran']
-if options['F90'] not in compilers:
-  sys.exit('compiler "F90" (in installation/options or as Shell variable) has to be one out of: %s'%(', '.join(compilers)))
-
-compiler = {
-            'gfortran': '--fcompiler=gnu95 --f90flags="-fPIC -fno-range-check -xf95-cpp-input -std=f2008 -fall-intrinsics'+\
-                        ' -fdefault-real-8 -fdefault-double-8"',
-            'ifort':    '--fcompiler=intelem --f90flags="-fPIC -fpp -stand f08 -diag-disable 5268 -assume byterecl'+\
-                        ' -real-size 64 -integer-size 32 -shared-intel"',
-            }[options['F90']]
-
-#--- option not depending on compiler -------------------------------------------------------------
-compileOptions = ' -DSpectral -DFLOAT=8 -DINT=4 -I%s/lib -DDAMASKVERSION=\\\\\"\\\"%s\\\\\"\\\"'%(damaskEnv.rootDir(),DAMASKVERSION)
-
-#--- this saves the path of libraries to core.so, hence it is known during runtime ----------------
-if options['F90'] == 'gfortran':
-  # solved error: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "_PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords"
-  # as found on https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2013-May/022735.html
-  LDFLAGS = '-shared -Wl,-undefined,dynamic_lookup'
-else:
-  # some f2py versions/configurations compile with openMP, so linking against openMP is needed 
-  # to prevent errors during loading of core module
-  LDFLAGS = ' -openmp -Wl'
-
-#--- run path of for fftw during runtime ----------------------------------------------------------
-LDFLAGS += ',-rpath,%s/lib,-rpath,%s/lib64'%(options['FFTW_ROOT'],options['FFTW_ROOT'])
-
-# see http://cens.ioc.ee/pipermail/f2py-users/2003-December/000621.html
-if options['IMKL_ROOT']:
-  if options['F90'] == 'gfortran':
-    arch = 'gf'
-  elif options['F90'] == 'ifort':
-    arch = 'intel'
-  lib_lapack = '-L%s/lib/intel64 -lmkl_%s_lp64 -lmkl_core -lmkl_sequential -lm'\
-                                                                      %(options['IMKL_ROOT'],arch)
-  LDFLAGS +=',-rpath,%s/lib/intel64'%(options['IMKL_ROOT'])
-elif options['ACML_ROOT'] != '':
-  lib_lapack = '-L%s/%s64/lib  -lacml'%(options['ACML_ROOT'],options['F90'])
-  LDFLAGS +=',-rpath,%s/%s64/lib'%(options['ACML_ROOT'],options['F90'])
-elif options['LAPACK_ROOT'] != '':
-  lib_lapack = '-L%s/lib -L%s/lib64  -llapack'%(options['LAPACK_ROOT'],options['LAPACK_ROOT'])
-  LDFLAGS +=',-rpath,%s/lib,-rpath,%s/lib64'%(options['LAPACK_ROOT'],options['LAPACK_ROOT'])
-
-#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# f2py does not (yet) support setting of special flags for the linker, hence they must be set via 
-# environment variable ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-my_env = os.environ
-my_env["LDFLAGS"] = LDFLAGS                                    
-
-#--- delete old file ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-try:
-  os.remove(os.path.join(damaskEnv.relPath('lib/damask'),'core.so'))
-except OSError, e:
-  print ("Error when deleting: %s - %s." % (e.filename,e.strerror))
-
-
-# The following command is used to compile the fortran files and make the functions defined
-# in damask.core.pyf available for python in the module core.so
-# It uses the fortran wrapper f2py that is included in the numpy package to construct the
-# module core.so out of the fortran code in the f90 files
-# For the generation of the pyf file use the following lines:
-###########################################################################
-#'f2py -h damask.core.pyf' +\
-#' --overwrite-signature --no-lower prec.f90 DAMASK_spectral_interface.f90 math.f90 mesh.f90,...'
- ###########################################################################
-os.chdir(codeDir)
-cmd = 'f2py damask.core.pyf' +\
-      ' -c --no-lower %s'%(compiler) +\
-      compileOptions+\
-      ' C_routines.c'+\
-      ' system_routines.f90'+\
-      ' prec.f90'+\
-      ' spectral_interface.f90'+\
-      ' IO.f90'+\
-      ' libs.f90'+\
-      ' numerics.f90'+\
-      ' debug.f90'+\
-      ' math.f90'+\
-      ' FEsolving.f90'+\
-      ' mesh.f90'+\
-      ' core_quit.f90'+\
-      ' -L%s/lib -lfftw3'%(options['FFTW_ROOT'])+\
-      ' %s'%lib_lapack
-
-print('Executing: '+cmd)
-try:
-  subprocess.call(shlex.split(cmd),env=my_env)
-except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
-  print('build failed')
-except OSError:
-  print ('f2py not found')
-
-try:
-  os.rename(os.path.join(codeDir,'core.so'),\
-            os.path.join(damaskEnv.relPath('lib/damask'),'core.so'))
-except:
-  pass
-
-modules = glob.glob('*.mod')
-for module in modules:
-  print 'removing', module
-  os.remove(module)
-
-#--- check if compilation of core module was successful -------------------------------------------
-try:
-  with open(damaskEnv.relPath('lib/damask/core.so')) as f: pass
-except IOError as e:
-  print '*********\n* core.so not found, compilation of core modules was not successful\n*********'