The OPAL Discussion Forum

[Chris Rogers <chris.rogers AT stfc.ac.uk>]

You could try running a virtual machine like VirtualBox under windows 
with a full linux install. If that's an option, I suspect it will be 
easier; it's how I run OPAL on my laptop.

Cheers,
Chris


On 23/01/18 07:44, Matt Easton 董昊 wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> I’m trying to set up OPAL for the first time. Sadly my work computer 
> runs Windows, which makes things more difficult. Has anyone had success 
> using OPAL on Cygwin before?
>
> I’m currently stuck on the step of installing H5hut. I think I’ve got 
> all the prerequisites installed properly. The configuration seems to go 
> ok. But in the build step I get an error: “Unknown type name ‘MPI_COMM’”.
>
> If I add “include <mpi.h>” to h5_types.h, then this error goes away, but 
> I think this should a be a configuration issue, I don’t think I should 
> be messing with the source code. Even with this include line added, I 
> get a later error that various “HSPset_xxxx_mpio” functions are not 
> defined properly. It seems to be that the connection from H5hut to Open 
> MPI isn’t working properly…
>
> Thanks so much for any help!
>
> Matt


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