[gmx-users] Installing Gromacs with Cygwin

[Mark Abraham]

On 16/01/2011 9:27 PM, Mr Bernard Ramos wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I need help. I am trying to install Gromacs using Cygwin. However, I 
> do not seem to have access to it. I am very new with Cygwin. I just 
> followed the steps provided by the following sites:
>
> http://machine-phase.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-install-gromacs-on-windows-vista.html 
> and 
> http://www.gromacs.org/Downloads/Installation_Instructions/Cygwin_HOWTO
>
> but in the end when I type "luck" it returns "command not found".
>
> These are the steps I did.
>
> 1. Downloaded fftw-3.2.2 and gromacs-4.5.3 and saved them in C:\Packages
>
> 2. After installing cygwin, I changed directory by typing in the 
> following in order to work with fftw-3.2.2
>
> cd /cygdrive/c/Packages/fftw-3.2.2
>
> and then I typed in
>
> ./configure --enable-threads --enable-sse w--enable-float
>

Hopefully that extra 'w' is spurious. Actually copying and pasting is a 
good practice.

>
> followed by
>
> make
>
> then
>
> make install
>
> 2. I then worked for the gromacs-4.5.3 by typing in
>
> cd /cygdrive/c/Packages/gromacs-4.5.3
>
> and then
>
> ./configure --enable-shared LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib"
>
> make
>
> make install
>
> make links
>
> make clean
>
>
>
> 3. I typed "luck" after all the procedures above but what I get is 
> "command not found". I am still at /cygdrivec/Packages/gromacs-4.5.3.
>
> Is this the correct path to run the gromacs?
>

See the official installation instructions regarding getting access to 
GROMACS after installation.

Mark
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