[gmx-users] Location of files under Cygwin

[Mark Abraham]

toma0052 wrote:
> Hello,
>      I am looking to edit a little bit of the source code in Gromacs, and I
> am having a little bit of a problem.  Normally, I am using Gromacs that is
> installed on a network, but I cannot edit this, so I also have Gromacs
> installed on a personal windows machine running Cygwin.  The installation
> seemed to work fine, as I have run many md simulations, but my question is
> where are the mdlib files located?  On the network Gromacs, the files are
> located in /usr/src/GROMACS/GCC/src/mdlib.  But, under Cygwin, the folder
> /usr/src is empty.  Am I missing something?  Are the files located in another
> location?  Did I need to include specific flags during the installation in
> order to have the source files in src/mdlib?  Sorry if this is a silly
> question, but in searching the computer for update.c, I am coming up empty.

Source files aren't installed anywhere by default, they get left where 
they are. Thus it seems your installation directory was cleaned away, if 
your search was complete.

Mark