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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:25:56PM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> just wanted to tell anyone interested that DOLFIN is now compiling nicely
> in Windows. I will add the necessary instructions to the wiki page when I
> have the time.
> 
> I have created an experimental Windows installer, which may be found at
> http://packages.simula.no/win32/FEniCS-8.06++-win32.exe (includes most of
> the FEniCS packages). If anyone wants to try it out, simply download and
> double-click the file and follow the instructions. The only requirements
> are Python (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5.2/python-2.5.2.msi) and
> NumPy
> (http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/numpy/numpy-1.1.0-win32-superpack-python2.5.exe).
> The DOLFIN demos are available in <prefix>\share\dolfin\demo, but don't
> expect everyone to run smoothly. This is mostly due to bugs in
> FFC/Instant/Viper in Windows. Comments and suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Johannes

I tried it and it seems to work. I could plot a mesh in Windows XP.

But it was a horrible experience! Are people actually using that crap?
Everything takes forever to load, there's only one workspace, it hangs
when shutting down, tons of popups warning me about virus databases
that need to be updated, ugly icons, etc etc.

-- 
Anders

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