[xcrysden] installing xcrysden on windows

[Craig Bridges]

Dear All,
 After having trouble installing XCrysDen on linux. I have now tried it
on windows XP SP2 professional edition. I installed the most recent
version of Cygwin, then put the XCrysden directory in the /home/
directory, and finally ran ./xcConfigure.sh as suggested in the
installation instructions. I said no to all packages, so this is just
the most basic installation. The scratch directory was properly created
and appears to be referenced in .bashrc.

Running './.bashrc' produces the error message:

./.bashrc: line 112: $'\r':command not found
':not a valid identifierrt: 'XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH
./.bashrc: line 121: $'\r':command not found

Clearly the default installation for windows has some problems as well.
Could anyone provide me with some suggestions for setting up the
windows version of Xcrysden?

Regards,
Craig



On Tue, 01 May 2007 11:56:39 -0400
 "Craig Bridges" <cbridg@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
> Dear all,
>  I am trying to install the binary version of XCrysDen on a computer
> with OpenSuse 10.2 64bit version, and tcl/tk installed (version
> 8.4.14-11). I'm intending to use it with Wien2k.
> 
> I get the following message upon trying to run the program. I'm sure
> that there is a simple solution, but as a relatively new user of
> linux,
> I don't know it. Any help would be appreciated.
> 
>   [ref] A. Kokalj, Comp. Mater. Sci., Vol. 28, p. 155, 2003.
>         Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.
> 
> /home/craig/XCrySDen-pre1.5bbin-static/xcrysden: line 163:  5603
> Segmentation fault      ${XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR}/bin/xcrys
> ${XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR}/Tcl/xcInit.tcl $USE -- $XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR
> $XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH $ARGS >/dev/null
> 
> 
> I ran ./xcConfigure and sourced the profile. In .bashrc:
> 
>
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # this is for XCRYSDEN pre1.5b; added by XCRYSDEN installation on
> # Thu Apr 26 17:40:48 EDT 2007
>
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
> XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/home/craig/XCrySDen-pre1.5bbin-static
> XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/home/craig/XCrySDen-pre1.5bbin-static/xcrys_tmp
> export XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH
>
PATH="$XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR:$PATH:$XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR/scripts:$XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR/util"
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Craig
> 
> ------------------
> Dr. Craig Bridges
> McMaster University
> Department of Chemistry
> Hamilton, Ontario
> L8S 4M1
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Dr. Craig Bridges
McMaster University
Department of Chemistry
Hamilton, Ontario
L8S 4M1