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["Nuno A. G. Bandeira" <nuno.bandeira@ist.utl.pt>]

Anglade Pierre-Matthieu wrote:
> Hi,
> I ve never tryed compilation of abinit over W$. And  we must
> acknowledge that tuning the autotools to do exactly what you want
> might be a little tricky. Especially if you aren't familiar with them.
> Yet If you really want to perform abinit compilation, you must know
> that you can do it "by hand". Just compile every libs and every source
> directory into static libs and then compile  that alltogether with
> each program in src/main.

Please read my last post on the abinit forum.

http://www.abinit.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=53#p53

Mingkai you can also download my binaries and see how I managed to do it 
by reading the file config.log within the pgf folder.

Compiling with pgi/win is doable with a little tweaking. The only 
problem they have is that they've dispensed with the cygwin emulation 
layer and reinvented the unix scripting utilities themselves so as to 
avoid licensing issues (GNU general license). Their old cygwin1.dll file 
was becoming outdated and was the last supported "commercial" release of 
Red Hat's cygwin tools for Windows.
For the purposes of compiling the default library extensions are now 
.lib instead of .a and .obj instead of .o. The latter isn't a problem 
because the bash shell recognizes you're in a unix environment the 
former is if loader cards like -lnumeric are used (instead of say 
-L/src/lib/linbumeric.a)

Our group once had a demo CD for WindowsXP-64 and our 32-bit 
applications ran like a charm. So it might not be a bad idea to use 
precompiled binaries if you want to dispense with the hassle of 
recompiling.

Regards,

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Graduate researcher and molecular sculptor
Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry Group,
Faculty of Science
University of Lisbon - C8 building, Campo Grande,
1749-016 Lisbon,Portugal
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Doctoral student @ IST,Lisbon
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