Re: abaqus on cygwin

[Kevin Van Workum <vanw at nist dot gov>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Andrew Markebo wrote:

> Hmm just a quick check, the bash-prompt you fire it up from, is it
> started from within cygwin X-windows? Is the environment variable
> $DISPLAY set to something? (you have started X-windows, and tell
> abacus to where to find it)

a bash prompt in an xterm says:
$ echo $TERM $DISPLAY
xterm 127.0.0.1:0.0

> I wonder, it seems like you have to blame abaqus, not cygwin, it maybe
> only checks if exceed is running, if not, it complains, doesn't check
> for generic X-displayer.

Maybe there's a way to trick abaqus to use XFree86 instead of Exceed, but
I don't know.

> Thought 3 or something.. seems to do some 3d? Maybe something it can't
> find in the cygwin X-displayer, but in exceed?

That may be a problem if I can ever get it to use my x-server.

Kevin.

>      /Andy
>
> [...]
>
> | I have ABAQUS 6.3.1 for Windows installed on my Windows 2000 laptop. I
> | also have the current cygwin and cygwin-xfree installed and working
> | properly and I'm using the waimea window manager.
> |
> | I'm starting ABAQUS from a Windows Command Prompt via "abaqus -cae" or
> | from the Star Menu or from a cygwin bash shell. I get the follow error
> | messages:
> |
> | "ABAQUS Error: The Exceed executable could not be located. This may
> | indicate a problem with the Exceed installation or an upgrade to the
> | Exceed installation."
> |
> | "First, please check that you have Exceed installed and working correctly.
> | Then, please reinstall your ABAQUS Products in order to resolve this
> | problem. If this issue persists, please contact your local ABAQUS support
> | office for further assistance."
> |
> | I don't have Exceed installed and I was hoping there is a way to use the
> | cygwin XFree86 server in place of Exceed. I'm assuming I have to edit the
> | abaqus_v6.env and/or graphicsConfig.env files, but I don't know what
> | changes to make or if it is even possible to do this. Maybe Exceed is
> | really required, as the ABAQUS documentation indicates.
>
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