Charm++ parallel programming system

[Jim Phillips <jim AT ks.uiuc.edu>]

You need to build the Win32 version, not the Cygwin version.  Cygwin is 
still required to compile, but not to run the binary.

-Jim


On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Sangamesh B wrote:

> Hi Gengbin,
>
>
>     We built Charm and NAMD on Windows using Cygwin.
>
> The charmrun.exe and namd2.exe executables contain cygwin1.dll dynamic
> library.
>
> To remove this, we used "-mno-cygwin", in src/arch/net-cygwin/conv-mach.sh
> as follows:
>
> CMK_CC="gcc -mno-cygwin"
> CMK_CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin"
>
> But it thrown an error, during compilation.
>
> Can you tell me where we can mention this or any other option, which can
> produce the executables free from cygwin1.dll.
>
> Thank you,
> Sangamesh
>
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Gengbin Zheng 
> <gzheng AT uiuc.edu>
>  wrote:
>
> > Please find README.win under charm top level directory for the instruction
> > on how to install Charm++ on windows.
> > Cygwin is required. Installing Cygwin on windows vista has all sorts of
> > problems (mostly hang during installation). There are some workaround if you
> > search on the web.
> >
> > Gengbin
> >
> >
> > Sangamesh B wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > >    We're trying to compile charm++ (For NAMD compilation) on Windows. Till
> > > now we tried:
> > >
> > > 1. Compiling on native Windows: Visual C++ compiler and using nmake
> > > command.
> > >  Makefile.win32 refers to a folder called "Common", which is not available
> > > in src dir. Edited  Makefile.win32 according the dir structure.
> > > failed andd couldn't proceed.
> > >
> > > 2. Using SUA: SUA doesn't have bash shell. Installation of bash on SUA
> > > also failed.
> > > Then used sh shell. This also failed.
> > > Is Charm++/Charmc compilation certainly require bash?
> > >
> > > 3. Cygwin: Initial stage - errors. Still not completed.
> > >  Has any one compiled cham++ on windows? Can you share your experience
> > > with us..
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sangamesh