InstallWindows

How to install colloids under Windows

Tested only for 32bits systems

Prerequisite

MinGW

Download and run mingw-get

• Install in c:\MinGW
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Add C:\MinGW\bin to the PATH environment variable. Environment variables can be modified in Control Pannel/System, then Advanced settings and Environment variables. You want to modify the “system” variables (bottom), not the “User” variables (top).

Boost

• Download the last version of boost libraries at
• Unzip in the directory you want (for example c:\Users\Dowloads\boost) that we will name $boost_src$ from now on.

• Compile bjam by:

  cd $boost_src$\tools\build\v2\engine\src
  build.bat mingw
  cd ..\..\..\..\..
  copy .\tools\build\v2\engine\src\bin.ntx86\bjam.exe .
  

• Configure and execute bjam to build boost by:

  ECHO using gcc ; > project-config.jam
  bjam install --prefix="c:\MinGW" --with-program_options --build-dir="$boost_src$\build"
  

• build boost by:

  make
  make install
  

CImg

• Download CImg
• Extract CImg.h into c:\MinGW\include

FFTW

• Downoload the precompiled fftw libraries
• Extract fftw3.h to c:\MinGW\include
• Extract the three dll files to c:\MinGW\bin
• Copy c:\MinGW\bin\-3.dll to c:\MinGW\lib\.dll.a (fftw3f-3.dll => fftw3f.dll.a).

Extra: to be able to modify the configure script and makefiles

• Download the autoconf macro archives and extract to c:\MinGW\share\alocal
• After you modified configure.ac or makefile.ac, run autoreconf --install

Setup and install

Get the source from the svn server

• Download and install TortoiseSVN
• Create a directory that will contain the source (ex: C:\Users\me\Documents\colloids).
• Right-click on the directory, and choose “SVN checkout”
  • URL of repository is https://colloids.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/colloids/trunc
  • Other options are as default
  • Click ok: the source code gets downloaded

Configure

In the MinGW console (also called MSys) :

cd /c/Users/me/Documents/colloids
./configure –prefix=/c/MinGW -–with-boost -–with-boost_program_options=boost_program_options-mgw45-mt-d-1_46_1

Adapt the directory and the exact name of the boost library you have compiled. In c:\MinGW\lib you must have a file like libboost_program_options-mgw45-mt-d-1_46_1.a Keep only the underlined part.

Build and install

make
make install

Configure python

Prerequisites

• Python (>2.5)
• Numpy
• Scypy
• pygraph
• Gnuplot and Gnuplot.py

PYTHONPATH

Add C:\Users\me\Documents\colloids\python to the environment variable PYTHONPATH. Create this variable if needed.