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Hello everyone:

I tried to install abinit 6.12.3 binary on Win7 64 bit, simply I extraced the zip file "abinit-6.12.3_i686_cygwin_gnu4.5" to /usr/local in my cygwin.

However when I try to run abinit, it says:

/usr/local/bin/abinit.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This looks quite weird for me. Could you please shed some light on this point?

Many thanks!!

Hi,

abinit run natively under the "command prompt" of Windows and ALSO under cygwin...

the DLL were missing in the package : a new package is available !

sorry,

jmb

Thank you very much!! It is really amazing that it can run directly under windows not cygwin!

Well I already used Cygwin and source package to compile it, so I'd like to list the procedure for Cygwin for future reference (I'm also new to Cygwin):

1. Install Cygwin with full function, not default

2. Install mpich2
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/project ... =downloads
configure and make

3. Install Abinit with 4 cpus.
#./configure --prefix=/home/usrname/software/abinit-6.12.3 --enable-mpi=yes --with-mpi-prefix=/home/usrname/software/mpich2
#make multi multi_nprocs=4
#make install
4. Add environment variables:
open ~/.bashrc, then add:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/usrname/software/abinit-6.12.3/lib
PATH=$PATH:/home/ML/software/abinit-6.12.3/bin
export PATH
5. Run Abinit in parallel
mpiexec -n 4 /home/usrname/software/abinit-6.12.3/bin/abinit.exe <t3x.files>& log