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ALPS on Windows

The current ALPS CVS version (1.3b3) compiles now on Windows under the most recent Cygwin environment in the serial version. I didn't yet try to build a MPI version of the library.

How to compile and install the ALPS libraries

• Download the latest Setup.exe from www.cygwin.com
• Launch Setup.exe
• In the package selection choose the following packages in addition to the ones already selected:
  • Develop: bison (only needed for the applications later on)
  • Develop: boost
  • Develop: boost-devel
  • Develop: cvs
  • Develop: flex (only needed for the applications later on)
  • Develop: gcc-g++
  • Develop: expat
  • Develop: make
  • Libs: libxslt
  • Math: lapack
  • Do *not* install the sunrpc package, the ALPS CVS version now comes with its own XDR code.
• Finish the Cygwin install
• open the cygwin shell; you are then in your cygwin home directory
• Create the source tree structure

mkdir ALPS; mkdir ALPS/CVS-Sources/; cd ALPS/CVS-Sources

• Checkout snapshot from CVS

cvs checkout alps

• Create the build directory

mkdir build-alps-g++; cd build-alps-g++

• Launch configure: Be warned, due to some Windows/Cygwin specifics the following configure scripts will perform very slowly.

../alps/configure 
  --prefix=$HOME/ALPS/Installations/alps-g++/ 
  --with-boost-incdir=/usr/include/boost-1_33_1
  --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib  
  --with-boost-toolset=gcc-mt-s-1_33_1

• start compiling and installing:

make && make install

That's it!

How to compile and install the ALPS Applications

• Download a lp_solve tarball.
• Check that you have installed the "bison" and "flex" cygwin packages listed above
• change into the lp_solve source directory
• compile the lp_solve library:

make -f Makefile.linux

• create and go to the ALPS-Applications build-dir

cd ALPS/CVS-Sources ; mkdir build-applications-g++; cd build-applications-g++

• launch the configure script:

../applications/configure 
  --prefix=/home/aml/ALPS/Installations/alps-g++/ 
  --with-lp_solve=$HOME/libraries/lp_solve

• configure should find all prerequisites in order to compile all applications
• start compiling

make && make install

That's it!

Please report any positive or constructive feedback to me (AML) or to the developer mailing list.

© 2006 by Andreas Läuchli