Attempting to use an MPI routine before initializing MPICH

[connorourke]

I am getting the following error when trying to run FreeFem:

Attempting to use an MPI routine before initializing MPICH

I have not used FreeFem before, but am the admin of a HPC system and a user has given me a script they are trying and failing to run which uses FreeFem with the following:

ff-mpirun -np 4 runJob.edp -ns -wg -ffddm_schwarz_method oras -meigh 1 -neigh 1 -ffddm_verbosity 1

Is this likely to be an issue with the build, or his script. Having not used freefem before I'm unsure as to how it interacts with MPI, and whether he should be initializing MPI in his .edp file somewhere.

Thanks