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[Daniel Winklehner <winklehn AT mit.edu>]

Alternatively, if you have Windows 10 you can try the WSL (Windows Subsystem 
for Linux). I’m using it for everything Linux-related nowadays.

Best,
Daniel

> On Jan 23, 2018, at 04:54, Chris Rogers <chris.rogers AT stfc.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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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