[xcrysden] Does anyone have a functional Xcrysden on windows7/cygwin?

[yelena]

I had no luck with installing xcrysden on cygwin. Now I'm using Oracle 
VM Virtual Box with ubuntu and Xcrysden on it. it isn't great solution 
but it works.
I hope this helps.


On 23 Jul 2014 22:10, radu i wrote:
> Dear developers and users,
>
> I've just installed the latest cygwin on a 64bit Windows Home Premium
> machine. (I have installed the following packages from
> http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/gnu/cygwin/: tcl-tk 8.5.11-1, fftw3 3.3.4-1,
> libGL1 8.0.5-5, libGLU1 9.0.0-1, xorg-server 1.15.1-4, bash 4.1.11-2,
> bc 1.06.95-1, coreutils 8.15-3, gawk 4.1.1-1, grep 2.16-1, gzip 
> 1.4-1,
> ImageMagick 6.7.6.3-4, less 458-1, xmore 1.0.2-1 (there was no "more"
> package available), and the entire X11 server)
>
> Running from the xterm (Xwin server launched before), I've untar the
> xcrysden-1.5.53-cygwin.tar.gz, and afterwards I've entered the 
> scripts
> folder. There I've launched the .xcConfigure.sh script. In the end
> I've loaded the bashrc as specified.
>
> When I launch xcrysden I get the following output:
>
> user at user-PC: ~/apps/xcrysden1.5.53/scripts xcrysden
>
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
> |*****************************************************************|
> |* *|
> |* XCrySDen -- (X-Window) CRYstalline Structures and DENsities *|
> |* = === = === *|
> |*---------------------------------------------------------------*|
> |* *|
> |* Anton Kokalj (tone.kokalj at ijs.si) *|
> |* Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia *|
> |* *|
> |* Copyright (c) 1996--2012 by Anton Kokalj *|
> |* *|
> |*****************************************************************|
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
>
>  Version: 1.5.53
>
>  Please report bugs to: tone.kokalj at ijs.si
>
>  TERMS OF USE:
>  -------------
>  XCRYSDEN is released under the GNU General Public License.
>
>  Whenever graphics generated by XCRYSDEN are used in scientific
>  publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an explicit
>  reference. The preferred form is the following:
>
>  [ref] A. Kokalj, Comp. Mater. Sci., 28, 155, 2003.
>  Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.
>
> XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/home/user/apps/xcrysden1.5.53
> XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/home/user/xcrys_tmp
>
> user at user-PC: ~/apps/xcrysden1.5.53/scripts
>
> I know that a similar problem was hopeless one year ago
> 
> (http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2013-August/001469.html),
> but did anyone solve this problem?
>
> I thank you for your time and for your support!

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