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

[Erik Lindahl]

Ah, my bad Mirco - I shouldn’t be doing email when I’m tired saturday evening ;-)

I had completely missed that you were testing the beta, but it seems Szilard & Roland figured things out.

Cheers,

Erik

On 07 Dec 2013, at 22:40, Roland Schulz <roland at utk.edu> wrote:

> The cmake -E create_symlink isn't available on Windows. Either we need to force GMX_SYMLINK_OLD_BINARY_NAMES to be false on Windows or we need to make copies (instead of symlinks) on Windows.
> 
> Mirco, can you verify that the install works correctly if you set GMX_SYMLINK_OLD_BINARY_NAMES to false?
> 
> Roland
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 2:56 PM, 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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