[gmx-users] Installing GROMACS on Windows

[Konrad Piwowarczyk]

> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:41:04PM +0200, Martin Ulmschneider wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to compile and install GROMACS in Win2000. The binaries 
> > provided are not sufficient since i want to modify the code a little.
> > 
> > I have Microsoft Visual C++ and GCC, both support ANSI C.
> 
> 
> at ftp://ftp.gromacs.org/pub/developer/ you can find developers archive
> for
> building gromacs 3.1.x (I don't know if they works with 3.2.x cause I
> didn't
> test them) and fftw 2.1.x under MS Visual C - see README file for next
> instructions
> but there is one bug if you want to use SSE2 asm loops (for intel P4 at xeon
> processors) - if somebody needs it, I could wtite
> 
> Milan

Several days ago I managed to compile Gromacs 3.2.1 on Windows XP with the help of CygWin Tools (that means I used gcc 3.3). It is quite straightforward and avoids using not very efficient - in my oppinion - Visual C++ compiler.
One thing that you should remember about is copying cygwin1.dll into the directory where system can find it eg. c:\windows.

Konrad Piwowarczyk