4 Copyright (C) 1989-2004 Regents of the University of Illinois
6 You can compile charm++ under Windows9x/2000/NT with VC++ plus Cygwin.
7 Cygwin are ports of the popular GNU development tools and utilities for
8 Windows 9x/2K and NT, which emulates a UNIX environment under Windows.
10 Note that since November 2005, Windows98 is not supported with VC++.
11 Support for WindowsNT/XP is improved to take advantage of the creation of
12 symbolic link under WindowsNT.
13 Please read the FAQ at end of this file.
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18 (Note: building charm++ for 64-bit windows follows the exact way of building
19 for 32-bit windows. Therefore, changing "win32" to "win64" in the following
20 paragraphs gives you the guide to build charm++ for 64-bit windows.)
22 To compile charm with VC++:
23 1. install cygwin from: http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin
24 Remember to choose default file type as "unix" at the beginning of
27 2. Start a Cygwin's Bash Shell window, type "cl" to make sure VC++ compiler
28 command line mode is correctly set. If it is not correctly set, you need to
29 run the VCVARS32.BAT at Windows startup time. VCVARS32.BAT can be located in
30 your VC++ install directory, usually at:
31 /Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VC98/Bin
32 However VCVARS32.BAT(a DOS Batch) cannot be executed under Bash Shell
33 , you have to: for Win8x, put it into AUTOEXEC.BAT; for WinNT,
34 you have to merge call VCVARS32.BAT in cygwin.bat which is the target of the
35 Cygwin icon on desktop. Note that this dos batch is renamed to
36 vcvarsall.bat for VC++ version 8.
37 For example, if cygwin is installed under c:\cygwin,
38 modify c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat to something like:
43 call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall" x86
51 3. This step is optional if you have installed Microsoft Visual Studio under
52 the following (default) location:
53 /Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC
54 In case it is not at this directory, edit the following (text) files to
55 modify them to point to your visual studio c++ compiler directory:
56 src\arch\win32\unix2nt_ar
57 src\arch\win32\unix2nt_cc
59 4. Now you can compile Charm++ like Unix, for example:
61 ./build charm++ net-win32
63 this will build all Charm++ executables under net-win32/bin and all libs
68 Compile and Run Charm++ Programs
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71 1. After Charm++ compilation is complete, you can try some sample programs under
72 net-win32\pgms. For example,
73 cd net-win32/pgms/charm++/megatest, and type "make",
74 it will invoke Charm++'s "charmc"(VC++ wrapper) to compile the test
75 programs and generates an executable "pgm.exe" and a charm++'s parallel
76 run utility program - "charmrun.exe".
77 Now you have two choices of running the executable:
78 (1) locally on your desktop, using:
79 ./charmrun +p1 ./pgm ++local
80 this will fork one copy of node program on your local machine. You can
81 choose using more than one virtual processors, e.g. using +p3 option.
82 Starting from Charm 5.4R2, You can also run, simply type executable and
85 This will run only one copy of program locally.
87 (2) run in parallel across machines:
88 In this case, you need to write a .nodelist file under your home
89 directory(~) in bash terminal, here is an example:
95 Next, you need to start charmd.exe, which is under net-win32/bin on
96 all the nodes as listed in the .nodelist file.
97 Now run the Charm++ program, for example:
101 For details of Charm++ compilation options and charmrun comman line options
102 explanation, please check the manuals on charm.cs.uiuc.edu web site manual
104 If you have any problem or suggestion, please let me know by sending
105 email to (ppl@cs.uiuc.edu).
113 1. I don't like Cygwin, can I compile Charm++ without Cygwin?
115 Yes, there is an un-documented way to compile Charm++ under MS-DOS windows
116 with VC++ and nmake. However, this is only occasionally maintained and not
117 guarranteed to always work.
119 1 open a MS-DOS windows, cd to Charm++ directory, and mkdir net-win32\tmp;
120 2 cd to net-win32\tmp, copy Makefile.win32 from
121 charm\src\Common\scripts\Makefile.win32 to current directory;
122 3 type: nmake /f Makefile.win32
123 4 To compile Charm++ programs, see the Makefile.win32 examples under
124 net-win32\pgms\charm++\megatest\Makefile.win32
125 The command to use is: nmake /f Makefile.win32
126 Basically you need to specify all the charm++ libraries to link against,
127 because shell script charmc is not available,
129 2. I just downloaded Charm++ net-win32 binaries from your website, how to use it?
131 The recommended way to run windows binary is under Cygwin.
132 First, unzip the binary packages to desired location; Set PATH environment
133 varaible to include the charm bin/ directory. That's it, you can now cd
134 to Charm++ testsuite directory, for example: pgms/charm++/megatest, to
135 compile your first Charm++ program using "make".
136 If you don't want to use Cygwin, you have to use "nmake" to compile Charm++
137 programs, see the Makefile example under:
138 pgms/charm++/megatest/Makefile.win32.
140 3. How to compile under Windows98?
142 Compiling Charm++ with cygwin/gnu compiler (net-cygwin) under Windows98
143 is still supported. However, we don't support VC++ with Windows98 any more.
144 To compile Charm++ under Windows98, one can check out Charm++ version
145 before November 2005.