[gmx-users] GROMACS Quick and Dirty Installation Error

[Schulz, Roland]

Hi,

You should not send any GROMACS developer personal emails but use gmx-users mailinglist.

You get the 404 because the comma at the end of the URL. Without it the link should work. As context the old archived email is: https://mailman-1.sys.kth.se/pipermail/gromacs.org_gmx-users/2014-July/090827.html
The correct link is https://gerrit.gromacs.org/c/3764
The fix has been included since GROMACS 5. So any somewhat recent version shouldn't have that specific problem. But we don't regularly test GROMACS on CYGWIN. You might have more success if you use WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux) as a solution on Windows.

Roland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vinu Harihar <vhariha5 at jhu.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 2:46 PM
> To: Schulz, Roland <roland.schulz at intel.com>
> Subject: GROMACS Quick and Dirty Installation Error
> 
> Dear Mr. Schulz,
> 
> 
> 
> I am a student trying to install GROMACS on my Windows laptop through
> Cygwin. When I try to use the "quick and dirty installation guide" on the
> GROMACS webpage, I run into an error when executing the "make"
> command:
> 
> /gromacs-2020/src/external/thread_mpi/src/tmpi_init.cpp:476:42: error:
> 'strdup' was not declared in this scope; did you mean 'strcmp'?
> 
>   476 |                     threads[i].argv[j] = strdup( (*argv)[j] );
> 
>       |                                          ^~~~~~
> 
>       |                                          strcmp
> 
> I found an old post of yours on the gmx-users forum where you describe a
> patch you developed for a similar issue. When I tried to access the patch on
> Gerrit, I got a 404 error. I have tried to follow the instructions posted by other
> users in the  gmx-users thread but I still get this error. I was wondering if you
> have any suggestions on how to fix the error or a newer version of the patch?
> 
> 
> 
> With Gratitude,
> 
> Vinu Harihar
> 
>