[mesa-users] mesa on Windows 7 64

[Max Katz]

I was attempting to use the SDK to install MESA in my cygwin environment. I
just removed the gcc executables from the SDK source tree in favor of the
Windows-compatible ones. It was a stretch, but I thought it was worth a
shot.

Max Katz


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Richard Townsend
<townsend at astro.wisc.edu>wrote:

> Hi Max —
>
> The requirements of the *SDK* are only required if you’re using the SDK.
> If you’re not using the SDK, some, all or none of these requirements may
> need to be met — and there may be other requirements.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rich
>
> On Jan 14, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Max Katz <maxpkatz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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