How to compile FreeFem++ on Microsoft Windows (win32)

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FIle version 30/11/2011 F. Hecht.

WARNING NOW the window is compiled under MINGW (from version 3.11 14/01/2011 FH)

So the old dll are incompatible with the new version.

It is the fortran compiler under cygwin which is too old (not f90 under cygwin).

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The tools to be installed are:

1) Download and install MINGW32

http://sunet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/mingw-get-inst/mingw-get-inst-20101030/mingw-get-inst-20101030.exe

launch:

mingw-get-inst-20101030.exe

Answer question in following windows :

1) do next

2) do next

3) use preload case

4) accept

5 ) select location of mingw on disk.

6) mingw menu name

7) select components

all except ada

8) do install

2) Download and install wget for --enable-download in configure

http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/project/mingw/mingwPORT/Current%20Releases/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

under mingw32 shell

do:

cd /c/users/loginname/download/

tar jxvf wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2

extract and move wget.exe in /usr/bin

3) The glut of win32 from

wget http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~gogo/courses/mingw/winglut.zip

wget http://files.transmissionzero.co.uk/software/development/GLUT/freeglut-MinGW.zip

The location of include file must be

c:\mingw\include\GL\glut.h

c:\mingw\include\GL\gl.h

c:\mingw\include|GL/glu.h

add the glut32.dll or freeglut.dll in you directory in the 2 directories:

$ find /c/MinGW -name glut

/c/MinGW/bin/glut32.dll

/c/MinGW/lib/glut32.dll

4) the good blas now is:

http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/gotoblas2/downloads/

Try to compile

5) install MPI for // version

HPC Pack 2008 SDK

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=10505

HPC Pack 2008 R2 Service Pack 2

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26646

6) install inno setup to build installer:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~mlaan2/ispack/isetup-5.4.0.exe

7) GSL for gsl interface from

Download Now! mingw32-gsl-1.14-1.zip (3.5 MB)

Finaly, the configure argument are:

./configure '--enable-download' 'FC=mingw32-gfortran' 'F77=mingw32-gfortran' 'CC=mingw32-gcc' 'CXX=mingw32-g++' '-with-blas=/home/hecht/blas-x86/libgoto2.dll' 'CXXFLAGS=-I/home/hecht/blas-x86' '--enable-generic' '--with-wget=wget' 'MPIRUN=/c/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Bin/mpiexec.exe'

Good Luck …