[mesa-users] mesa on Windows 7 64

[Max Katz]

Since this is not the first time that someone has asked, I decided to see
if I could install MESA under Cygwin (which provides a Unix-like command
line environment to a Windows user). I installed the latest DLL from their
website <http://www.cygwin.com/> (the 64-bit version of 1.7.27). On the
select packages step, I made sure that the MINGW versions of the following
were selected, as per the requirements of the MESA
SDK<http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/static.php?ref=mesasdk>
:

zlib0
zlib-devel
perl
make
binutils
tcsh

(Note that mingw only has up to gcc 4.8.2)

But when I attempted to install, it crashed with



*gfortran -fopenmp -o ../tester test_const.o -L../../make
-lconst/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/4.8.2/libgfortran.dll.a: error adding
symbols: Malformed archive*

Max Katz


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Aaron Dotter <aaron.dotter at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just to follow up on Bill's statement:
>
> If you're willing to dive into Linux (which will require time and patience
> if you've never used it before), you can run any number of Linux
> distributions in a virtual machine under Windows.  Once you've got a VM
> running Linux, the MESA installation process will proceed as described on
> the webpage.
>
> Programs like VirtualBox will enable you to do this.  VIrtualBox and many
> Linux distributions are free of charge.
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry, mesa doesn't do windows.   Mac or Linux are the only choices.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2014, at 2:15 PM, Robert Carrigan wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone who has been able to get mesa running on
>> Windows 7 (if you exist!) could help me out. As per the "getting started"
>> site, I've got Subversion downloaded and installed (via WANdisco) and have
>> downloaded all of the code via the command prompt:
>>
>> svn co -r 5819 svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/mesa/code/trunk mesa
>>
>> Then to install mesa, the site says to "edit your utils/makefile_header
>> to give the relevant information about your system. You’ll need to have an
>> up-to-date version of gfortran or ifort", so I went and downloaded/ran the
>> installer for MinGW 64 (via http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries).
>>
>> And now I'm stuck on how to use mingw to edit that file.
>>
>> I have greater than average experience with computers, but little to no
>> experience with actual programming. I know what the command line is and how
>> to do some basic things in it, but the only programming I've done is a high
>> school class on java and an intro class in undergrad (that was a complete
>> joke) on fortran, so I'm at a loss for what I'm supposed to be doing.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated
>>
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