[xcrysden] XCrysDen installation on windows (with cygwin)

[Tone Kokalj]

On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 16:04 +0200, Elena Molteni wrote:
> Hi all,
> i'm trying to install XCrysDen on my laptop, under windowsXP with cygwin.
> 
> From a cygwin terminal, first i untar the xcrysden-1.5.53-bin-cygwin
> directory inside my cygwin directory, i.e. in   /cygwin/home/Utente,
> then, in ~/xcrysden-1.5.53-bin-cygwin/scripts, i run ./xcConfigure.sh.
> Finally i source .bashrc.
> 
> Then, giving the command    xcrysden,  i get the following message:
> 
> /home/Utente/xcrysden-1.5.53-bin-cygwin/xcrysden:
> line 230: /home/Utente/xcrysden-1.5.53-bin-cygwin/bin/xcrys: Bad address

It is difficult to say what is the cause. By googling, I realized there
are many reports about various "Bad address" errors in cygwin.
On the other hand, it may signal a memory bug in the xcrysden code.
Or perhaps it can be related to the problem reported recently by Danilo
Addari, see
http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2012-May/001179.html

Regards, Tone

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