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Re: real beginer


On 10/23/2012 10:19 AM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
On 10/23/2012 06:28 AM, Trixie wrote:
I'm real beginner with cygwin, actually linux and everything related.
But i need to instal and use certain fortran based program. I installed
cygwin and several packages. I'm trying to call certain module and all

Later on you mention that "that program" is "BigDFT
<http://inac.cea.fr/L_Sim/BigDFT/>". This appears to be a package
distributed in source form. So now you have get it and build it. The
build instructions mention nothing about Cygwin at all.

I would highly recommend you contact the developers of BigDFT and ask if
they have considered porting it to Cygwin.

I agree with the previous poster.


Phrases like "massively parallel electronic structure code" and etc suggest this is a large complex package probably making intensive use of *nix functionality.

I suspect strongly doing a port would be a *big* project.

My 2c:

You'd probably be *far* better off getting access to a Linux system.

If you absolutely must use Windows, running the program on a Linux virtual machine under Windows might work, but I would suspect that the program may very well require "serious" hardware and might not run effectively on a virtual machine.

As noted previously, the build process looks a bit complex so I'd also suggest finding someone with Linux lnowledge to build and install the system.


Bill Meier


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