real beginer

[Bill Meier]

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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