[gmx-developers] Gromacs 5.0-beta1 install fails on windows

[Erik Lindahl]

You might not have run the install process with administrator privileges?

Cheers,

Erik

On 07 Dec 2013, at 20:56, Mirco Wahab <mirco.wahab at chemie.tu-freiberg.de> wrote:

> the build step creating gmx.exe works fine, but the executeable is 
> created in:
> 
> 	[build_dir]/bin/Release/gmx.exe
> 
> the next step (the install) expects the executeable
> gmx.exe located here:
> 
> 	[build_dir]/bin/gmx.exe
> 
> and fails with:
> 28>  Creating symlinks for alternative binary names
> 28>  Error copying file (if different) from "[build_dir]/bin/gmx.exe" to 
> "[build_dir]/bin/mdrun.exe".
> 28>  Error copying file (if different) from "[build_dir]/bin/gmx.exe" to 
> "[build_dir]/bin/gmxcheck.exe".
> 28>  Error copying file (if different) from "[build_dir]/bin/gmx.exe" to 
> [build_dir]/bin/gmxdump.exe".
> 28>  Error copying file (if different) from [build_dir]/bin/gmx.exe" to 
> "[build_dir]/bin/grompp.exe".
> ...
> 
> 
> manually copying gmx.exe to [build_dir]/bin/ and rebuilding solves
> this, for now.
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